bricas’ blog

The last five months

2009-12-18T19:02:45Z

I haven't bothered to post anything in the last five months. With Christmas just around the corner, I figure this is as good a time as any to play catch up. Padre-Plugin-PerlTidy A new release of this plugin -- changes made mostly by other peo...

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Adding a feature to Padre

2009-07-28T12:23:12Z

I've been following (and even contributing to) the Padre IDE project from very early on. I've watched it grow from very modest beginings into something quite impressive -- usable, even. Its deep integration with Perl is such a killer feature. The...

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Dear Module Author

2009-06-03T19:41:53Z

Dear Module Author, When preparing to upload a new release of your module to PAUSE could you please review your Changes file? Did you remember to update it? Does it contain something meaningful? Here are a couple of examples of Changes entries w...

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Elsewhere

2009-05-26T17:56:42Z

This is just a quick note to let y'all know that I now have a twitter account and an identi.ca account. You have been warned.

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Benchmark

2009-05-21T17:30:20Z

As noted in my last post, I was able to get a bit of a speed boost based on observations made as a result of code profiling. In general, if I want to see if one piece of code is faster than another, I use Benchmark. Benchmark is shipped as part o...

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Devel::NYTProf

2009-05-11T15:37:48Z

Another week another QA tool. This week I'm going to talk about Devel::NYTProf (aka NYTProf). To start, if you're interested in profilers, you should check out the brief history section of the pod, then take a glance at its features. Until recen...

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Perl::Critic

2009-05-01T19:41:35Z

Holy -- this weekly thing goes by way too fast! Anyway, as promised, I'm making my first QA tool post. This week, we're chatting about Perl::Critic. Perl::Critic has been around since late 2005. I was able to resist its icy gaze until last fall....

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Projects Updates and QA Tools

2009-04-22T18:04:14Z

NB: This is my first post in the EPO Iron Man challenge. (Warning: contains some expletives) First and foremost, the long awaited Catalyst 5.8 is out! My mind-share has primarily been with the 5.7x series so I've been pretty much out of the loop ...

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github

2009-03-24T14:49:34Z

Like so many before me, I have now joined the github cabal. Check out my projects. One of the more interesting parts of github is their breakdown of projects by language. At the time of this post, Perl has 6% of the projects -- tied with C, 1% m...

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Catalyst 5.71000

2009-01-19T21:04:02Z

Like i said back in July, Catalyst 5.71000 would happen before the moose-ified 5.80 gets shipped. That day is here. Here's the basics on what's new since 5.7015: Relatively chained actions PathPrefix (I only mentioned that, oh, 2 years ag...

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