Category — Uncategorized

YAPC::EU::Lisbon If you are in Lisbon for the YAPC::EU and are still about on the Thursday then you can still sign up to the free Workshop featuring Enlightened Projects presented by the combined skills of Matt S. Trout, Ash Berlin and Jonathan Rockway. This is a totally free event and we will be attempting to pitch the material to fit the abilities of the attendees.

Visit the YAPC Europe EPO Workshop page for more details. Or go to the YAPC::EU Schedule for times and location.

Jim Bandt of the Perl Foundation has announced on the Perl Foundation blog,  Proposed Payments for Clearing Perl 5 Bugs, that they will be supporting Nick Clarke’s proposal, spending other people’s money, to award grant bounties for code/bug fixes in the Perl 5 Core .

The Enlightened Perl Organisation became involved with this when we were previously asked by Nick to help out (in the usual well-volunteered format ).

Matt S Trout, Mark Keating, Richard Dice and Jim Brandt met up at YAPC10 in Pittsburgh and formulated the beginings of the way forward for which we all should be very grateful, especially to Jim for pushing this forward on his end.

TPF has agreed to award Grants to code fixes when a person reaches a target of 500 dollars in any one calendar quarter.

The Enlightened perl Organisation has agreed to build a site that will facilitate the tracking of the bugs fixed and allow judges to verify the code before it is returned to be updated into the core.

At this time the working group consisting of Rob Kinyon, Mark Keating, Ian Norton and Matt S . Trout are drawing up the functional specifications for the site prior to the build.

More details will be posted here and on the TPF blog.

The wiki for Corehackers who will also be involved in this, and where the ongoing development of the site will be noted at: corehackers.perl.org.

So first posts are always problematic. How to grab your audience in the immediate without being controversial presents issues. Like all who blog the instant inclination is to illuminate in some manner, then maybe excite, energise, educate and enrich before collapsing from alliterative asphyxia. But this isn’t my first post ever…

This is my third blog (no I haven’t dumped the others), I have a company blog that can be found at http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/blog/mark-keating and I have a vox blog at projectmonkey.vox.com (though I have become disenfranchised with the Vox way of doing things). So why have a third?

Well, there are quite a few things that I want to talk about that don’t entirely fit on my company blog, true I could wedge them in there but they wouldn’t quite fit right, they always feel like they are wedged in there without good enough cause. The company blog should be about the things I do in my Shadowcat life. So I could post them on Vox, but that blog has always been random and very much an open space without form or function.

So I ended up having a few things I wanted to talk about that I felt were just the wrong shade of sideways for the company blog, and were above the horizon of what I use Vox for. And then a fellow northwestengland.pm member offered me a blog on his per.ly space and I jumped at the chance.

So Here it is.

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 some other content. So hopefully more good content soon to be appearing!

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!

“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”!

Sorry, I’m not actually dead… I’ve actually been posting loads recently, just not here. I’ve been concentrating on my photography blog for a while. New camera and not working much over Christmas, kinda lead me to work on my photography a little more. Anyway, I’ll be back with some Perl love soon I’m sure!

Boston.com have an article with the year in photos. There are another two pages of photos too if you follow the links at the top. Some of the phtos are awesome, some are grusome!

Just been trying to set some modules up using the CPAN shell on my server and was having some terrible trouble with modules all failing to make, with no real error message. All that was reported was “Not OK”.

So I hit the console and tried to manually make one of the modules and that worked fine. After some more digging I discovered that for some reason the config variable telling cpan where the make binary wasn’t set, so a simple “o conf make /usr/bin/make” and now everything’s hunky dory.

Silly CPAN.

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar.

The first one orders a beer.

The second orders half a beer.

The third, a quarter of a beer.

The bartender says “You’re all idiots”, and pours two beers. ”