Over the past 6 months or so, I’ve been working on a project to port goimports (or some version of it) to Perl. By now I’ve tested it on our Perl codebase at $work, on MetaCPAN and also some CPAN modules. It’s now at a state where I can say it’s getting to be a useful tool.
You can find perlimports on MetaCPAN and GitHub.
For a more thorough introduction, see my talk from the Perl and Raku Conference this past week. Read More...
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:
create a Twitter list called “my-list-of-people” add the @metacpan account to the list display the accounts which are now in the list we’ve just created I thought it would be fun to create a Twitter list of CPAN authors using some of the data in the MetaCPAN API. Read More...
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Managing Your Travis CI Config Files with App::CISetup If you write software, you (hopefully) write tests. Read More...
PTS 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 something which I really look forward to. It’s a block of time to work, undistracted, on MetaCPAN. Read More...
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About the Various PANs 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. Let’s start with the most popular PAN in Perl: Read More...
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 support of [Mark Keating][5] and the [Enlightened Perl Organization][6]. Mark has (as usual) worked tirelessly to ensure that sponsor money moves in the right directions so that we are able to fund meta::hack every year. Read More...
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:
Doug Bell Joel Berger Olaf Alders Mickey Nasriachi Shawn Sorichetti This, of course, would not be possible without the help of our 2018 sponsors: Booking. Read More...
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
run the script wait for it to die on a failed dependency install the missing dependency re-run the script wait for it to die install the missing dependency rinse lather repeat Being lazy I was aware of Acme::Magic::Pony. Read More...
