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vim, Ale, Syntastic and Perl::Critic
As a vim user, I’ve used Syntastic for a long time. It’s a great tool for syntax checking. However, I was recently introduced to Ale. Ale does a lot of what Syntastic does, but it does it asynchronously. The practical benefits are
Announcing meta::hack v2
It’s that time of year again. We did a bunch of hacking on MetaCPAN at the Perl Toolchain Summit and we got a lot done, but it wasn’t nearly enough. Our TODO list never gets shorter and there are lots of folks willing to pitch in, so today I’m announcing that meta::hack v2 will take place from Nov …
How I Spent My Perl Toolchain Summit v2017 (Lyon)
This was my 5th year of being invited to participate in the Perl Tool Chain Summit (formerly Perl QA Hackathon). It was a real pleasure to be invited to a rebranded version of the same helpful event.
Viewing Your Module Permissions on MetaCPAN
We’re currently at the Perl Toolchain Summit in Lyon, working hard on improving MetaCPAN. One feature which we went live with yesterday is a view on CPAN module permissions. This means that you can now easily see which modules any CPAN author has permission to upload.
Preparing for LWP Hack Night
I’ve had a couple of people ask me how they can prepare for LWP Hack Night, so I thought I’d just give a quick introduction to the set of modules. I whipped up a graph of the various GitHub repositories to give you an idea of which are the most popular and which have the most open issues. Those stats seem …
Introducing LWP::ConsoleLogger::Everywhere
In an earlier post, I introduced you to LWP::ConsoleLogger. I’ve been using it heavily since then, but one thing I didn’t tackle was how to debug a user agent you can’t easily get it. Some modules don’t provide a public API which allows you to access their user agent. Or, maybe the user agent …
meta::hack Wrap-up Report
meta::hack v1 Earlier this month (Thu, Nov 16 – Sun, Nov 20) I had the pleasure of meeting up with 7 other Perl hackers at ServerCentral’s downtown Chicago offices, in order to hack on MetaCPAN. Before I get started, I’d like to thank our sponsors.
UserAgent Debugging Made Easy
Related articles: Observing Network Traffic with LWP::ConsoleLogger::Everywhere #The Problem Earlier today I saw a recent blog post from Gabor Szabo. In it, he shows a very concise way to handle Basic Authentication using LWP::UserAgent. Now, what if you had a problem running the script? How might you go about …
Improving libwww-perl
You may have noticed that WWW::Mechanize has seen some releases over the last couple of months. No big, breaking changes, but bugs have been fixed and enhancements have been shipped. This module is part of the libwww-perl ecosystem and also a part of the libwww-perl GitHub organization, to which I now also belong. I …