Software development manager for OpusVL [opusvl.com], member of Birmingham Perl Mongers [pm.org] and maintainer of http://perldoc.perl.org [perl.org].
Follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/JJ_Perl [twitter.com].
I've just uploaded a new design for http://news.perlfoundation.org. Based on the perldoc.perl.org style, it implements Phil Smith's idea for the "Explore Perl" toolbar. I'll blog in more detail about this later, but essentially we've now got a single list of links that appear on multiple sites but are maintained in a sing
Last night I gave my talk Web Mashups with Catalyst at the Birmingham Perl Mongers technical meeting.
We also had two guest speakers - Stuart Langridge talked about the future of Python web development, and Nick Harewood demonstrated Microsoft Silverlight and Expression Blend.
A couple of days ago I released Catalyst::View::Thumbnail, which provides an easy way to serve thumbnail images. It should work with any model that can put raw image data onto the stash (you don't need the MIME type, it's automatically detected), so a controller to produce thumbnails 100px high would look like this:
I've put together a short guide to installing Perl modules without root access using local::lib.
If anyone has any corrections or suggestions for improvement, please let me know!
Cheers,
JJ
Hot on the heels of the Perl 5 version 10.1 release, I've updated http://perldoc.perl.org with the new documentation. Thanks to Dave Mitchell and everyone else involved in getting the 10.1 release out, well done!
The old Perl 5 version 10.0 documentation has been moved to http://perldoc.perl.org/5.10.0.
Cheers,
JJ
Today I uploaded the perldoc.perl.org source code to GitHub, the repository is at http://github.com/jonallen/perldoc.perl.org/tree/master. Issues, feature requests, and patches are all very welcome!
I've also made a few additions to the perldoc FAQs on the project page.
Cheers,
JJ
Just wanted to say a big thanks to Cog, Alberto, Joana, and everyone else involved in putting on such a fantastic conference!
I saw many excellent talks, caught up with lots of friends in the hallway track, enjoyed many bottles of Super Bock, and generally had a grand time. Thank you!
A few people have pointed out to me that scrolling down pages on perldoc.perl.org was causing their screens to flicker.
Unfortunately I've not been able to reproduce the problem, even when using exactly the same web browser and OS versions. From the reports I've had, it only appears to affect Firefox, only affects a very small number of people, and has nothing to do with CPU power.
Dave Cross and I (and Rozallin Thompson, I believe) will be meeting in Lisbon at YAPC::EU 2009 to discuss this issue.
Do you mind if I join you as well?
Cheers, JJ
Following the perldoc design update, I've now started work on various fixes and optimisations.
The first of these is page load time.
After profiling in Safari, it became apparent that a large proportion of the load time was due to latency, and that the JavaScript files were blocking the loading of images, delaying the final page render.
Thank you for your comments, nice to hear you like the new design.
If you've got any suggestions for more suitable colours for the syntax highighting, just drop me a mail at jj@jonallen.info and we can have a chat about it. I'd be very interested to see what you've got set up in TextMate (I use Komodo Edit on a Mac btw), so please get in touch.
I'm pleased to announce a significant update to perldoc.perl.org, the Perl documentation website.
The main change is a complete new visual design, bringing a fresh, modern look to the site. Additionally there are a number of new features to aid navigation and usability - a floating page index window, recently read pages list, improved Pod rendering, and many more.
