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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …