Chainsaw Blues

WoC part two: Database and Domain Design

2008-01-01T01:29:37Z

Part two of the Vienna WoC TODO Manager code is up, in which I design and implement a Catalyst+DBIx::Class+Reaction app from the ground up in public and document the process. The latest article is Database and Domain Design, in which I don my gea...

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Vienna WoC TODO Manager series on shadowcat.co.uk

2007-12-29T18:39:01Z

I'm going to be building an application to help run the Vienna.pm Winter of Code, and since the resulting application is going to be open source and in public subversion as an example of Catalyst+DBIx::Class+Reaction, I've decided to write up the ...

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Devel-REPL going into debian, apparently

2007-08-19T02:30:21Z

Or so this blog post seems to indicate. I have nothing to say except \o/

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Devel::REPL part 4 - script options, rc files and profiles

2007-07-30T20:24:50Z

Ok, so this post is spectacularly late. Work's been busy, my business partner got married and I got to annoy all sorts of brilliant people at OSCON (my slides are up if you care). And I -did- actually write the code that this post depends on a whi...

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DBIx::Class 0.08001 released (and a podcast)

2007-06-17T19:35:19Z

For those of you who're interested in me demonstrating just how badly I interview, you can hear a perlcast podcast interview with me about DBIx::Class which was recorded last month. Better still, after 7 dev releases, four of them RC grade, a lot...

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Three ways to shoot yourself in the head - the dangers of too much magic

2007-05-13T15:17:36Z

So, there was some fascinating discussion on my first post that got onto the subject of some of the magic tricks that people play under the hood, notably touching on Smalltalk and Ruby. Piers Cawley summed up my real views on the subject for me, n...

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Using Devel::REPL to develop a mail cleanout script

2007-05-06T16:57:09Z

So, weeks and weeks on from when I planned, I'm finally getting down to sorting my e-mail out. First thing is to pick an IMAP client library. A quick poke for IMAP client libraries on CPAN reveals a few, notably IMAP::Client, Net::IMAP and Net::IM...

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Writing a perl REPL part 3 - lexical environments

2007-04-22T14:22:44Z

(this is a continuation of the series started in this post, so you may want to start there) New tool for today: Rocco Caputo's amazingly handy Lexical::Persistence module. We're going to use this to persist lexical variables - i.e. those declared...

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Writing a perl REPL part 2 - a history plugin

2007-04-15T12:54:06Z

So, last time we got from scratch to a basically working simple perl REPL. So now it's time to start writing plugins, since currently it's disturbingly basic and only really useful for ... well, for making a blog post about how it works at all :) ...

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Writing a perl read-eval-print loop (REPL) - part 1

2007-04-09T14:49:55Z

=== update, April 25 For the impatient, part 2 and part 3 are already out and I'm aiming to publish a part per week until I run out of ideas and change to a different topic. === end update, original post follows So, I need to sort out my person...

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