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#cpan#metacpan

Fiddling with the metacpan.org URLs

One of the pain points of MetaCPAN is that URLs don’t always point where you would expect them to. For example, should a …

· 2 min read
#perl#Perl Mongers

Perl Mongers Meetings via Google Hangout

This past Thursday we tried something new at Toronto.pm We decided to try having our in-person meeting also available online via …

· 2 min read
#CPAN#iCPAN

Ab(Using) the MetaCPAN API for Fun and Profit v2013

I’ll be speaking about using (and abusing) the MetaCPAN API on day 2 of YAPC::NA. If you think you might be attending (or …

· 1 min read
#cpan#perl

Sifting Through the CPAN

Some interesting stuff has been said today on The Four Major Problems with CPAN, Don’t release experiments to CPAN and CPAN …

· 6 min read
#cpan#metacpan

MetaCPAN is Moving Today (Dec 31, 2012)

This is just a quick note to let everyone know that MetaCPAN is moving to a new hosting sponsor today (Dec 31st). Our old hosting …

· 2 min read
#GitHub#perl

Have you added your Perl project to 24pullrequests.com?

24pullrequests.com takes the spirit of the Advent coding calendar and puts a new spin on it. Try to send one pull request per day …

· 1 min read
#cookies#cpan

Introducing HTTP::CookieMonster

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of poking around in your WWW::Mechanize or LWP::UserAgent cookie_jar, you’ll know …

· 3 min read
#CSRF#GET

Using Plack::Middleware::CSRFBlock and jQuery to deal with Cross Site Request Forgery

At $work, our flagship application was recently audited for potential security issues. One of the items which raised a red flag …

· 4 min read
#CPAN#iCPAN

iCPAN 2.0.0 now Available in the App Store

I’m happy to announce that iCPAN 2.0.0 is now in the app store. If you’re not familiar with it, iCPAN is a free iOS …

· 4 min read