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Expanding Your Author Info in the MetaCPAN
If you’ve had a look at search.metacpan.org, you may have noticed that some of the author pages have more info than you might find at search.cpan.org. Take, for instance, FREW’s author page. You’ll see that it has links to his blog, Twitter, StackOverflow, website etc. Lots of information there which …
search.metacpan.org: Building a Sexier CPAN Search
As we began working on iCPAN, we became aware of how problematic it can be to figure just exactly what is in the CPAN. More importantly, we became aware of things we really wanted to do when interacting with CPAN. Last month, Dave Rolsky posted some comments on a next generation CPAN search . He has a fairly extensive …
iCPAN v1.0.2 is Now in Apple's App Store
After about a week of waiting for an official review, iCPAN was reviewed, approved and published to Apple’s App store earlier today. There are no code changes in this release, but the modules are up to date as of Nov 8, 2010. This release also includes manuals and cookbook POD like Moose::Manual.
Using Plack to Like a Module on Facebook
We’ve made a couple of fun changes to cpan-mangler. First off, you can now “like” modules on Facebook: Now, up and downvoting of modules would be a lot more useful, but this can be fun (and confusing for your friends):
Mangling CPAN with Plack::App::Proxy
If you want syntax highlighting when viewing docs and source at search.cpan.org, you don’t actually need to use Greasemonkey. You can do it with Plack and be up and running in just a few minutes.
iCPAN: Now Bigger, Faster and with Syntax Highlighting
Since we’ve been porting CPAN to the iPhone via iCPAN, we’ve had the chance to re-imagine the CPAN a little bit. We’ve been thinking, what would we change about search.cpan.org if we were able? We’ve added the bookmarking, we save searches of recently viewed modules and now we’ve got …
HTTP::BrowserDetect for all of your UserAgent parsing needs
This module dates back to 1999, but as of late 2009 it had only been patched twice over a 5 year period. The RT queue was full of very good (but unapplied) patches. The world of browsers had also changed considerably over this 10 year period, making the module helpful but missing a lot of coverage. Since I didn’t …
iCPAN: CPAN on your iPhone
When I’ve got a few minutes here and there, I like to browse the CPAN for new, interesting modules. I wanted a way to do this quickly and easily on my iPhone, without needing to get online to do it. This app did not exist, so @ioncache and I set about creating it. iCPAN has been available in the Apple app store …