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This is why I participate in an Open Source community

The other day I received this email from a user of one of my CPAN modules. This is what makes participating in an Open Source community really worth it! The tool he's talking about is XML::Rabbit. Thanks a lot, Jack! Just a note to say thank you.

Hiking and hacking at Preikestolen

Recently, I was participating in the Moving to Moose hackathon at Preikestolen near Stavanger, Norway together with a lot of other Perl hackers. I was one of the few people that actually drove to the venue, and it took quite some time to get there. During the trip I stopped

Config::Role - Object constructor parameters from file made easy

After I wrote that big 5-part article on WWW::LastFM / XML::Rabbit I noticed several things that could be improved. One of them was the fact that loading configuration information from a file in the home directory was a pretty generic thing to do. I decided to factor that code

Implementing WWW::LastFM with XML::Rabbit - Part 5

* Part 1 of 5 * Part 2 of 5 * Part 3 of 5 * Part 4 of 5 * Part 5 of 5 In the previous article we started implementing the geo.getEvents Last.FM API call. In this article we will complete the implementation of the Event class and create a small

Implementing WWW::LastFM with XML::Rabbit - Part 4

* Part 1 of 5 * Part 2 of 5 * Part 3 of 5 * Part 4 of 5 * Part 5 of 5 In the previous article we finished implementing the geo.getMetros Last.FM API call with XML::Rabbit. That particular API call doesn't include a lot of interesting information,

Implementing WWW::LastFM with XML::Rabbit - Part 3

* Part 1 of 5 * Part 2 of 5 * Part 3 of 5 * Part 4 of 5 * Part 5 of 5 In the previous article we looked at how XML::Rabbit does its magic to give us a very compact syntax for creating Moose attributes that mirror simple XML document values.

Implementing WWW::LastFM with XML::Rabbit - Part 2

* Part 1 of 5 * Part 2 of 5 * Part 3 of 5 * Part 4 of 5 * Part 5 of 5 In the previous article we created a simple framework for making HTTP requests to the Last.FM API. In this article we'll go into detail on how XML:

Implementing WWW::LastFM, a client library to the Last.FM API, with XML::Rabbit

* Part 1 of 5 * Part 2 of 5 * Part 3 of 5 * Part 4 of 5 * Part 5 of 5 In this series of articles I'm going to implement a client to the Last.FM web services API which allows us to find concerts and other events in

The new Catalyst book from Packt Publishing

Some weeks ago I got a copy of the new Catalyst book from Packt Publishing on the popular MVC web framework for Perl. The new book covers the 5.8 release of Catalyst, which is based on Moose. The book also includes some chapters on Modern Perl topics, namely Moose

Memory footprint of popular CPAN modules

I was reading Jay Kuri's article about CGI alternatives the other day, and I got thinking. How much memory does these various modules for simple (or advanced) web serving use? After having looked through Mark Stosberg's article on startup penalties I was even more bewildered. It