gabor's Journal

Upcoming Events with Perl content

gabor — 2010-08-10T17:46:55+00:00

I have not posted here for ages but according to the recent Perl Survey it seems there are still a lot of people who prefer reading use.perl.org than blogs.perl.org or Iron Man

So just to let these readers to know, there are going to be a number of tech-events with Perl content where you could help out.

Padre related blogs

gabor — 2009-06-16T08:32:46+00:00

As a first step in our effort to build a nicer web presence for Padre I put together a feed aggregator of several people who occasionally write about Padre.

If you are interested what people write about it go and check out the Padre related blogs.

If you also write about it sometimes, please let us know on #padre so we can add your blog too.

list of Mailing lists

gabor — 2009-05-01T14:18:10+00:00

Some time ago I took the liberty and copied the list of all the mailing lists from lists.perl.org to the mailing lists page on TPF wiki.

While it does not have the same database backend but I hope on a wiki it will be easier to maintain and keep the list and the links up to date.

In order to make them really useful we should categorize them and make sure the links are correct etc.

I started doing it but your help will be appreciated.

I hope if the list is cleaned up we'll be able to ask the maintainers of the lists.perl.org site to replace that with a link to the TPF wiki page.

Padre 0.34 released

gabor — 2009-04-28T13:28:29+00:00

details on my other blog

Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate anyone seen Hans Jeuken?

gabor — 2009-04-26T05:58:19+00:00

As I can see that Hans Jeuken has not touched his modules for a while and Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate has a few issues - most notably that it needs a small patch to work at all - I'd like to take over maintaining that module to use it in Padre.

I sent him a mail over 2 weeks ago with no response. If you know him, could you please contact him so I can get his blessing?

Distribution channels - who will do that?

gabor — 2009-04-15T21:54:25+00:00

In MBA one of the things people are taught is that you have to have good distribution channels for your product.

Our product is perl, CPAN modules and applications written in Perl.

Let's look at the CPAN modules:

Our distribution channels are Linux/*BSD/Unix and other OS vendors who distributed binary versions of some CPAN modules. ActiveState and a few volunteers who distribued .ppm packages and CPAN(PLUS)?.pm.

CPAN(PLUS)?.pm are doing fine but even with the recent improvements on Debian and Fedora there are still too few modules packaged and distributed by most of the vendors.

Someone should encourage the help of these distributions. Someone might even finance some of this packaging work but who?
The Perl Foundation?
The Enlightened Perl Organisation?

Any thoughts?

Where Padre meets Catalyst

gabor — 2009-04-14T08:17:11+00:00

Padre + Catalyst IMHO we need just that kind of Padre plugins and posts.

Test results in HTML, Smolder

gabor — 2009-04-08T12:28:00+00:00

I just sent out the latest copy of my Test Automation Tips newsletter and also posted the entry about Reporting Test Results on my blog.

It features both TAP::Formatter::HTML and Smolder

Enjoy.

Padre 0.33 released

gabor — 2009-04-05T06:21:22+00:00

I am happy to announce that v0.33 of Padre has been released.

The most important change is the new and nice Plugin Manager thanks to Jerome Quelin. We also have a brand new Polish translation thanks to Cezary Morga (THEREK) and we found why the Simplified Chinese translation of Fayland Lam did not show up and fixed it.

Padre can be installed from CPAN.

The ppm package for MS Windows has been updated.

An experimental binary (executable) version for 32 bit Linux can be downloaded from our binary download section with the 64 bit version following later.

Further download instructions can be found on our download page

Enjoy

The first Perl 6 plugin of Padre

gabor — 2009-03-28T20:36:47+00:00

I was hoping for this for some time and the recent help I got on #perl6 let me first write an experimental piece of code Embedding Perl 6 in Perl 5 which then lead me to the development of Inline::Rakudo.

Now that Hinrik suggested a GSoc project developing psi, a command line tool written in Perl 6 to get the Perl 6 documentation. As I believe many developers especially will prefer a GUI over the command line, I really would like to have that integrated with Padre.

So I quickly wrote a sample plugin for Padre that actually is written in Perl 6.

In a few hours from now Padre::Plugin::PSI will be available on CPAN.

ps. I know it does not do anything interesting, just counting bytes but it does it in Perl 6.

Padre 0.30 released

gabor — 2009-03-27T11:08:40+00:00

Just a short announcement:

Version 0.30 of Padre, the Perl IDE was released.

Look around and download it from CPAN

Read the Changes directly from the SVN repository.

Enjoy.

HTTP::Server::Simple for testing

gabor — 2009-03-26T07:46:34+00:00

I love HTTP::Server::Simple and use it for Testing a Web application without a lot of setup

Embedding Perl 6 in Perl 5

gabor — 2009-03-23T09:16:13+00:00

As reported on Perl 6 Tricks and Treats, finally I managed to use Rakudo Perl 6 from some Perl 5 code.

And BTW we just reached 128 subscribers on the Perl 6 newsletter.

Perl 6 Tricks and Treats after 6 days

gabor — 2009-03-17T10:47:11+00:00

It's not a full week yet since I announced the Perl 6 Tricks and Treats newsletter and there are almost a 100 subscribers already. This is nice if we take in account that Perl is dead and Perl 6 is vaporware.

I've sent out 3 messages so far:

enjoy, subscribe and invite others

Perl 6 Tricks and Treats - newsletter

gabor — 2009-03-11T06:37:22+00:00

Let me announce a new addition to the Perl 6 is going to happen soon family.

I am preparing my Perl 6 training material so I'll be up to speed in April for the Hands-on Perl 6 training in Oslo after the Nordic Perl Workshop

In order to help me prepare the material I opened a newsletter where I am going to send out Perl 6 Tricks and Treats.

If you are interested in reading my irregular writings about Perl 6, you can subscribe here to the newsletter.

Padre 0.28 is out

gabor — 2009-03-07T15:38:32+00:00

I am late on posting about this but the Padre development was fairly slow in the past few weeks so there are not many news items. Still a few words:

the new Padre 0.28 is on CPAN finally with the names in unicode showing correctly
ppm version of 0.28 for Windows is available
0.28 was already packaged for Fedora
Plugin for initial SVK and SVN integration were released

and I blogged about vim as a Perl IDE

Improving the speed of PPI

gabor — 2009-03-01T06:57:01+00:00

The biggest problem of PPI is that its slow. This causes any code depending on it such at Perl::Critic or the syntax highlighter of Padre to be slow. In the last couple of weeks Semuel Fomberg has been writing a replacement Tokenizer in C++.

See his status report.

I am sure he'll accept your help.

Padre as ppm for Active Perl on Windows

gabor — 2009-02-20T10:30:17+00:00

I am happy to let you know that Padre is now available as a ppm distribution for Active Perl 5.10 on Windows.

In order to install it you'll need to add two repositories:

ppm rep add wxperl http://www.wxperl.co.uk/repository ppm rep add padre http://www.perlide.org/download/ppm/

and then you can install:

ppm install Alien-wxWidgest ppm install Wx ppm install Padre

For up to date information see the Download page of Padre

Who is writing about Perl? What do Perlhackers write about?

gabor — 2009-02-16T07:05:30+00:00

chromatic tells us that his Modern Perl books site gets very few incoming links from other bloggers in the Perl community.

so I started (again) to wonder

Who in the Perl community is writing?
What are they writing about ? Perl? Other stuff?
Where are their blogs? On use.perl.org, on a personal site or on some large blogging site?
How can we find them?

I though there are two perl blog aggregators: Planet Perl and Perlsphere but yesterday I heard about the Belgian Perl Planet so there might be others out there.

Oh, yes and of course there are also the Parrot Planet and the Perl 6 Planet

I think I should start a project making sure I'll write in my blog about every Perl related blog I see (outside of use.perl.org) at least once with a link to it.

Padre 0.27 released

gabor — 2009-02-10T08:15:04+00:00

Version 0.27 of Padre, the Perl IDE has just been released.

It will take some time to reach CPAN. Till then you can install it using

pip http://www.perlide.org/download/Padre-0.27.tar.gz

My first real Perl 6 package on CPAN

gabor — 2009-02-08T08:45:11+00:00

Yesterday night I finally uploaded my first real Perl 6 package to CPAN. It is very basic but you can install it using the standard tools (well, almost seamlessly) and you only need to configure two environment variables to use it.

Perl::Conf is a very basic implementation of an ini file parser. (see the README file for some help with the installation)

Today, in the morning I described the issues I encountered in my blog and even sent it out on the Test Automation Tips newsletter.

Once everything was done I decided I read some news, that's when I encountered the PerlBuzz article of Andy Lester discussing the question should Perl 6 use the CPAN?

Well, I think I gave my answer already.

Upadated Perl 6 training materials

gabor — 2009-02-05T20:27:07+00:00

More than two years ago I started to write Perl 6 training materials but then after a while I stopped maintaining them.

Last week I went over the examples and fixed almost all of them to work with the most recent version of Rakudo. I even wrote unit tests for almost all the examples so I'll notice when they break next time.

Feel free to use the Perl 6 slides for any non commercial purpose.

I almost have not touched the text of the slides so they might not be correct.

That will come next.

Test Automation Training in Oslo

gabor — 2009-02-03T06:50:19+00:00

In April I'll spend almost two weeks in Oslo.

First, the Nordic Perl Workshop will take place between 16-17 April 2009. I proposed two talks there.

After the workshop, between 18-20 April there is going to be a 3 days long Perl 6 hackathon in which I hope to participate.

After that, between 21-24 April 2009, I am going to give the newly extended version of Test Automation using Perl course that is going to be 4 days long.

Both the hackathon and my training is going to take place in the same location as last year, in the offices of Linpro. If you are interested in the course, please contact me by email.

Mocking real world to test a wrapper

gabor — 2009-01-21T09:34:12+00:00

I've just sent out the latest entry of my Test Automation Tips about Mocking real world to test a wrapper.

I was surprised to see that there are over 200 subscribes already.

Test Automation using Perl Training in Frankfurt, Germany

gabor — 2009-01-14T10:56:48+00:00

While without any real association with the German Perl Workshop but right after it, between 2-4/March, I am going to give a 3 day long Test Automation using Perl Training in Frankfurt, Germany.

If you are interested to attend or if you know someone whom might benefit from the training, please contact me by e-mail for more information.

Portable Strawberry Perl with Padre, Parrot and Rakudo

gabor — 2009-01-12T11:00:50+00:00

I am happy to let you know that finally the unofficial Portable Strawberry Perl (beta 1) with Padre 0.25 is available for download.

This is based on the Portable Strawberry Perl (beta 1) release by Alias and this is just a hack, but it works.

Not only that, but it also includes a development version of Parrot and Rakudo along with the Perl6 plugin of Padre. So not only can you use Padre from this download but you can also write, syntax highlight and run Perl 6 code right from Padre.

It isn't small, 60 Mb download, 300 Mb unzipped but it is worth it!

For instructions go to Portable Strawberry with Padre, Parrot and Rakudo

A few words on Getting Started with Perl 6

Padre 0.25 released

gabor — 2009-01-09T20:52:10+00:00

I was hoping to make the releases less frequent but apparently the Padre developers keep churning out code and features so the limit of the Changes file was reached again and thus a new version was released.

Let me pick a few items:

Switch to the gnome icon set for Debian compatibility. (ADAMK)
Moved Padre::Plugin::CPAN functionality into the core so that we can do various sorts of tighter CPAN integration (ADAMK)
Padre::Wx::DocBrowser now uses Padre::Task::DocBrowser (let's hope properly) (Andrew Bramble)
Automatic indentation style detection now the default (SMUELLER)
User interface now "locked" by default (SMUELLER)

You can get it from your CPAN mirror

Enjoy and report bugs as usual

Padre 0.24 released

gabor — 2009-01-06T22:57:09+00:00

I am happy to announce the release of v0.24 of Padre.
As most of you probably did not have much time to look at 0.23 that came out 2 days ago let me include the changes of both versions.

Highlights:

Padre::Manual added (ADAMK)
Portuguese (Brazilian) translation added (GARU)
Spanish translation added (PacoLinux)
View Document As... (some other type of document) (FAYLAND)
Moving to the glorious RFC4646-based second-generation Padre::Locale implementation. "Portugese" is no longer Brazilian :)
Used Padre::Current to break backward compatibility of all the plug-ins. Plug-in authors will have to fix their code.

Full list of changes can be found in the Changes file.

Padre 0.23 released

gabor — 2009-01-05T04:58:50+00:00

About 8 hours ago I have released v0.23 of Padre, the Perl IDE based on a revision from a day earlier. This should be a relatively stable version before the latest refactoring that have not stabilized yet at the time of this release.
As that latest refactoring also changed the API and some (or maybe all?) the plug-ins have actually upgraded already I believe we are going to release 0.24 very soon.

In any case if you would like to upgrade Padre and use it with the plug-ins as they are installed on your computer you can already find it on CPAN.

See list of changes.

perldoc.perl.org wish list

gabor — 2008-12-21T05:11:34+00:00

Here is my wish list for perldoc.perl.org

Be able to type in for, foreach, while, etc. or even $_ or $a and get a link to a good explanation.
For this the X<> tags, added in 5.10, need to be indexed.
Have localized version of the site.
Eg. fr.perldoc.perl.org (future link) should have the same thing just with the French documentation based on POD2::FR and it.perldoc.perl.org (future link) should have the Italian version based on POD2::IT, with each site linking to the other translation sites.
Get access to the source code of perldoc.perl.org so I can reuse it and/or implement some of the above myself.