Comments for A Foolish Manifesto

Comment on Using search.cpan.org AND metacpan by fREW Schmidt

fREW Schmidt — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:50:46 +0000

@Andrew: No, it was a typo in the original search. The point is that metacpan can’t handle such an easy to make mistake. Furthermore, even if you fix the typo metacpan’s first result is ridiculous.

Comment on Using search.cpan.org AND metacpan by Andrew Grangaard

Andrew Grangaard — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:13:25 +0000

Are you using a single colon on purpose in DBIx:Class ? If so, what does it represent?

Comment on Using “Rails” wisdom in Perl by Patrick Fraley

Patrick Fraley — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:23:29 +0000

I have used CGI::Application for nearly 10 years, and it works great. Though it did evolve by now into Titanium. Also there are a couple of other lightweight frameworks for perl out there: Mojolicious Light and Perl Dancer, which are very lightweight yet powerfull.

Comment on FUD and Loathing in JavaScript by kasser

kasser — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:18:50 +0000

Nice and great post.

Thanks & regards.

Comment on Perl 5 to Perl 6: a Reverse Polish Notation Calculator by David Snow

David Snow — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:22:05 +0000

I tried the Perl 5 version on 5.10 and got warnings.
What is the syntax without an enter key?
I tried several “4 5 +” and got 4
5 + 5 and got 5.
It appears that the result is always the first number.

I am teaching my 14 year old grandson Technology and was hoping to use this as an example, but I need it to work.

What an I doing wrong?

Comment on Event Loops are better than while (1) by Naveed

Naveed — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:32:02 +0000

Paul, every time I look at IO::Async, I first read the SYNOPSIS and then I run away in terror. Maybe try changing the SYNOPSIS to something that makes sense and is much simpler. Or at least add comments to show what it is doing.

Comment on The Rise and Fall of mod_perl by The Rise and Fall of Event Loops (in one very small place of my code)

The Rise and Fall of Event Loops (in one very small place of my code) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:22:25 +0000

[...] In the spirit of one of my other posts I’ve decided to chronicle my path with at least a couple event loops. [...]

Comment on Perl Event Loop by tom

tom — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:37:58 +0000

I agree on the “don’t abuse debugging infrastructure” stance, but it is definitely a starting point for this.

I just checked the code though, and it appears that it uses anyevent::log internally, which it states can be used to do anything you want with the log message. (but I didn’t check that!)

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/MLEHMANN/AnyEvent-6.14/lib/AnyEvent/Debug.pm

Thanks for the blog.

Comment on Perl Event Loop by fREW Schmidt

fREW Schmidt — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:46:35 +0000

@tom: that’s certainly a sensible response. Mostly I just think that if a framework is explicitly meant NOT to do something, using debug tools to make that work is not a good way to solve your problem. Furthermore, if the debugging output is merely printing to stderr (which I expect it is) that’s not really helpful, since this is a daemon that I want to have errors logged to a database. For what it’s worth I found an OK way to do this with POE, thanks to Rocco Caputo, but sadly POE is fairly low level, so it makes me a little bummed, but so it goes. I’ll post again with my findings.

Comment on Perl Event Loop by tom

tom — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:05:18 +0000

Why don’t you just call AnyEvent::Debug::wrap as the FAQ you point to suggests?

From the description there it seems that it does exactly what you want, and wraps everything in an eval for you, and even provides some nice debugging output.

But as you linked to it, you probably have your own reasons, but I’m left wondering what they might be.