Release 1.32 of Workflow has finally made it’s way to CPAN after 8 beta/dev releases. I revisited the Changes file and boiled all the betas down to the following: – Bumped up version for Workflow::State to 1.14 considering patches from action_group and test_condition patches from Ivan Paponov implementing support for a group tag on actions [...]
When trying to publish my last entry via MacJournal I got the following error Application failed during request deserialization: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 85, column 137, byte 2837 at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser.pm line 187 Damn Perl error! Damn MacJournal! I would really love to know where the problem is. Perl (or XML::Parser) is attempting to [...]
Yesterday somebody asked for a particular CPAN module on the #cph.pm IRC channel. A module that could return from one level up. Somebody recommended Acme::Goto, I deconstructed the question and recommended Sub::Uplevel, without knowing what it actually does. Somebody suggested that it was written by a Japanese, but could not recall the name. So I [...]
Ok, I wanted to process the feedback I got from David Golden when he commented on my blog entry (http://use.perl.org/~jonasbn/journal/36580) on a failing test report for Games::Bingo. 1. I just remembered that I had perhaps located an issue in the POD of my friend Claes’ Javascript module also on CPAN, so I reported that first [...]
I am somewhat a regular listener to Off the wall and Off the hook I mentioned this to a Perl monger at some point and he recommended me to buy all of the back-issues of 2600 magazine. So late 2007 I did. The actual reception of the box with the issues is quite a story [...]
I have had a problem for quite sometime with some code. We refer to the code as the poor mans configuration management system. (the code snippets below have been shortened to not reflect the name space of the client in question). All in all it is a CPAN like distribution of files. Configuration_DEV.pm Configuration_TEST.pm Configuration_PROD.pm [...]
Apparently I am slowly evolving rather excentric quirks. The other day I was active on #YAPC, the general YAPC channel on IRC. Here I overheard a conversation between a speaker for the upcoming YAPC::Europe in Vienna and another user on the channel. Apparently the speaker could not get his employer to pay for his travel [...]
In the last issue of Dr. Dobbs, there was an article entitled Why Programming is Fun, the article is a spin of from a blog entry by the author at: http://blogs.codegear.com/davidi/archive/2006/08/19/26828.aspx I can agree with most of the things he mention, then again some of the aspects are of no interest to me – and [...]
Due to shortage of presentations we decided to cancel the PerlDay (http://www.perldag.dk/2005/) event. Fortunately we will have visits from Randal Schwartz and Stas Bekman in July
I recently discovered Test::Distribution (http://search.cpan.org/~srshah/Test-Distribution-1.14/lib/Test/Distribution.pm), it holds some of the stuff I need. According to the POD – a MANIFEST integration tests was a wanted feature. Having fooled around with the one in ExtUtils::Manifest (http://search.cpan.org/~mschwern/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.21/lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm), I knew where I could find one, so I implemented it in Test::Distribution (there was a stub) and mailed the [...]