Posts by Yanick Champoux
Want to contribute to your favorite CPAN module, or maybe create your own, but don’t have the foggiest idea how to do it? Here’s a few notes, tips, tricks and links that might help you get started.
Half the time I want to peek at the doc of a module, I hit perldoc. The rest of the time I type cpan Some::Module[1] in Firefox and read the POD straight out of CPAN. And while it’s pretty and handy, it also feels kinda silly to go on a remote server to read documentation that is also sitting on my computer. Surely, I tell myself, there must be a better way. And here it is.
Once more, the Ottawa Perl Mongers assemble! I’ll be presenting on how I’m implementing AJAX forms in a Catalyst application, using the deadly magic of Mason, Prototype, and FormFu. Pizza will be graciously provided by Pythian. So if you plan on coming, please let me know so that I can be a good little ninja and make the number of slices match the number of attendees.
Recently, hanekomu was contemplating how to make subsequent installs of a Task::BeLike module upgrade its dependencies to their latest version. This gave me ideas…
So there I am, on my morning bus ride, reading my copy of ‘The Definitive Guide to Catalyst’, unaware of the surprise that is about to fall on me like a rabid koala bear…The script in the book is a wee bit different and has been improved upon, but its origin is unmistakable. Somehow, unexpectedly, a hack of mine found its way into publication. Fame, glory, and page 293 of the Catalyst book, I can finally claim ‘em all as rightfully mine! But, serendipitous glee aside, three important lessons lie in this little story.
Gowlings hosted a debate on open source licenses organized by the Free and Open Source Software Learning Centre (FOSSLC). The debate was conducted between the proponents of three major Open Source licenses: Mike Milinkovich for the EPL, Matt Asay for the GPL, and David Maxwell for the BSD license. Videos of the event are available on the FOSSLC site.
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