Tag Archives: perl

CPXXXAN is SexPAN

By dagolden | Published: April 16, 2013

At the Perl QA Hackathon, I and others were constantly tripping over how to pronounce CPXXXAN — David Cantrell's family of platform-specific or Perl version-specific subsets of CPAN. Some people suggested we pronounce it "spandex" for some reason, but that's already a better fit for Chris Williams' CPANIDX modules. Only on the final night did [...]

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UNIVERSAL::new for command line MU

By dagolden | Published: April 5, 2013

Years ago, chromatic released Acme::UNIVERSAL::new. It was a joke. This is not. Using object-oriented modules from the command line can be a PITA. I have to type the module name twice: once to load it and once to construct objects with it. In a program, that's not huge overhead, but in a one-liner, it annoys [...]

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How I've started managing GitHub pulls

By dagolden | Published: March 27, 2013

I don't like GitHub's pull interface. They make merge commits, which suck. And I want to work from the command line, not the web site. When I noticed that I was losing on the scoreboard, I wrote a quick and dirty script to list open pull requests for a repository from the command line: github-list-pulls. [...]

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The GitHub pulls scoreboard says I'm losing

By dagolden | Published: March 27, 2013

I'm embarrassed to admit that I just fixed a bug, shipped the module, and then discovered a 2-year old pull request that fixed it better. Oops. I hate things like that! Fortunately, I just discovered that GitHub offers a pull request scoreboard with two views: Pulls sent: https://github.com/dashboard/pulls Pulls pending: https://github.com/dashboard/pulls/public Unfortunately, the scoreboard says [...]

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How to mass-favorite modules on MetaCPAN

By dagolden | Published: March 20, 2013

I love that MetaCPAN lets me "++" modules (distributions, really) to mark them as favorites, but going distribution by distribution to click things is not my idea of a good time. Time for laziness, impatience, hubris. Click favorites? No way! Let's automate that shit! (First, thanks to Moritz for giving me the pieces of the [...]

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