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Creating a Twitter List of CPAN Authors
Recently I found a great little Twitter command line tool called t. It does a lot of useful things, including building and editing Twitter lists. For example, with the following commands we can:
Managing Your Travis CI Config Files with App::CISetup
This post is brought to you by ServerCentral Turing Group in Chicago, a Platinum level sponsor of the meta::hack conference in 2018. For the past 3 years we’ve had the privilege of having meta::hack at the ServerCentral office space in Chicago.
How I Spent My Perl Toolchain Summit v2019 (Marlow)
The Perl Toolchain Summit (PTS) is an annual event, held in Europe, where work on improving the Perl toolchain takes place. I was fortunate to be able to attend PTS again this year. I’d like to thank my employer, MaxMind, for sending me to PTS and for once again financially sponsoring this event. PTS has become …
About the Various PANs
This post has been brought to you by booking.com, one of the Platinum sponsors of the 2018 meta::hack conference. When it comes to CPAN, Perl has a lot of related acronyms, many of which can be hard to understand. Let’s take a moment to discuss some of them now. This discussion will focus mostly on the PANs. …
meta::hack 3 Wrap Report
As I mentioned in [my meta::hack preview post][1], for the third year running we have had the privilege of being financially sponsored by [Booking.com][2] and also working out of the [ServerCentral][3] offices in downtown Chicago in order to hack on [MetaCPAN][4]. None of this would have been possible without the …
meta::hack is back!
For the third year running, we have the privilege of working out of the ServerCentral offices in downtown Chicago in order to hack on MetaCPAN. This year, five of us will be working on improving our corner of the Perl ecosystem. The physical attendee list is follows:
How lazy am I?
Occasionally I find myself running some random Perl script from a Github gist or dealing with some code from a colleague that doesn’t have proper dependency management (yet). It’s a bit painful to
How I Spent My Perl Toolchain Summit v2018 (Oslo)
#Perl Toolchain Summit 2018 Wrap-up Report #Getting There This year I had the pleasure of attending the Perl Toolchain Summit in Oslo, Norway. Because of a conflict in my schedule, I initially didn’t think I’d be able to attend. After a lot of mental back and forth, I decided I’d try to make it work. …
WWW::Mechanize Best Practices
#fields Recently at $work we were discussing some of the behaviours of WWW::Mechanize when submitting forms. For instance, when you pass the fields parameter to the submit_form() method, Mechanize might take a very lax approach to submitting your data. Imagine the following form: