I was evaluating an issue with an older Module::Build when I fell over this in the Changes file of Module::Build: 0.30 – Thu Sep 25 20:57:36 2008 – First non-beta release since April 2007. In the meantime, Sarkozy became president of France, the 35W bridge fell in Minneapolis, Phelps won a lot of gold, a [...]

I was reading an article on the Guardian about the dark side of the Internet. When my eyes fell on the ads on the page, one stood out: The top banner said (translated using Google Translate): “Congratulations! You are our 99999 visitor! You are at. 20:37:19 been selected as a possible winner of a new: [...]

I have lately turned my interest towards C and Objective-C, looking into iPhone application development. So I my continued quest to get my tools box for this defined I am monitoring some interesting mailing lists to pick up stuff as it appears. The other day somebody write to the official Apple Xcode list inquiring about [...]

I just discovered Test::NoPlan (http://search.cpan.org/~duncs/Test-NoPlan-v0.0.4/lib/Test/NoPlan.pm) It goes over you test suite to see if you have any no plan statements – very nice and useful. So I have added the following test (file: t/test_plans.t) to my growing arsenal of distribution tests:

Today is Ada Lovelace Day. I am supposed to write a blog entry about women in tech. I have been giving this a lot of thought since I signed up for participation for Ada Lovelace Day. When the kids left the house, I sat down at the computer. Going over the list of recent tweets, [...]

Sometime back I got a green grass project. The assignment was to implement a proprietary protocol over HTTP in Perl. I chose to use Catalyst. Having worked with mod_perl and Apache a lot in the past I thought it would be a good idea to use this too and the integration with Catalyst would be [...]

During the weekend I finally found time to release Workflow 1.33. I have not mentioned the last developer releases in this blog, but since the release of 1.33_4 and 1.33_5, I made 3 more developer releases before the final release of Workflow 1.33 I was cleaning up in the Changes file and I found out [...]

I am almost back in a regular running schedule. So looking ahead at the Copenhagen Marathon 2010, I sat down and adjusted a script I wrote at an earlier occasion. So running it with the date: 23rd. of May 2010 gives the following output: If you compare to the output of the referred blog entry, [...]

Jay Gold wrote a good blog entry entitled ‘Follow Back: How I Choose Who to Follow on Twitter’. Jay has some really good points and a nice strategy for his tweeteria. I am not a big fan of the whole follow me and I follow you back. You might not find my tweets interesting even [...]

I have just release first version of a HTTP interaction helper class for the Danish company DanDomain’s web shop system administrative interface. The module focuses primarily on their partner programs, which is exports of data in text formats. I have done a lot of work on their admin tool exports, changing format of these, applying [...]