Because Perl definitely isn't dead.

I completely forgot to blog about the Northwest PM meet last week. Perhaps the Perl scene in Manchester isn’t as lacking as we initially thought. Although there were only a few of us actually from Manchester. Three interesting talks were given: Object oriented database design in PostgreSQL (Matt S Trout) Converting 16k user mailboxes from [...]

One of the fine gentlemen I work with recently blogged about how he started out with Perl and it got me thinking about why Perl currently seems to be failing to drive the interest it so rightfully deserves. Perhaps by thinking about how developers select a language we are more likely to understand why Perl [...]

Test::Aggregate is a simple, yet fantastic module that allows, you guessed it, tests to be aggregated. This turns out to be a true god send when testing large Catalyst apps. Previously in order to run all the tests against an app I would generally have ran a stand alone server in one terminal, and then [...]

Saw a message on the Catalyst mailing list about catalyzed.org, a new blog aimed at helping the public image of modern Perl. In their first post/article they happened to mention Matt’s Script Archive. So I thought I’d take a look at the old favorite. Even back in it’s early days I thought the code that [...]

Welcome to graeme.per.ly, the replacement for alola.org. All the content from alola.org, has been imported here. The idea is that we should hopefully be able to get a couple of Perl or other Dev related blogs going on here and have them on xxx.per.ly etc. http://per.ly/ will be an aggregate of these blogs, and perhaps [...]

This is something that rears it’s ugly head from time to time, the need to create stand alone scripts that I can give to a none programmer to run on a Windows box. The last time I played with this, it was to create a version of the get_iplayer script for my dad to run. [...]

Initially I thought P3P policies might be quite useful. A nice way to see how a site promises to use my data and I could even configure my browser to treat my privacy settings accordingly. It was a nice thought at least. Unfortunately the reality is somewhat different. The only browser that seems to even [...]

If you are seeing this then you are an the new server….. woo hoo. If not then your DNS hasn’t updated yet, but I guess you wouldn’t know that as you still can’t see this!

After deciding I’d do what I thought would be a nice and straight forward Debian upgrade from Etch to Lenny, I managed to completely hose my server. Eventually I discovered that the amd64 version of Xen simply doesn’t work. Anyway, I have no need for Xen on the server any more, and since the nice [...]

“There’s probably no god, now stop worrying and enjoy your life” I knew these campaigns were running in London, but was surprised to see it on a bus in Stockport. Never heard a religious message proclaiming “There probably is a god”!