use Perl

Has happen? Gunna be agin. Nuthing new undur teh sunz. — Ecclesiastes 1:9

Last time, I wrote "We'll see if Viper survives in any form. I wouldn't be surprised if it's replaced quickly by something much better." That was what happened. mst++ recommended I check out Sequel, which I did. There's no question Sequel is a better starting point than ActiveRecord.

• The port of Sequel received the name Squerl. I quickly threw together functionality to mimic what I had in Viper. That was two weeks ago.
• Since then, I've successively been porting over tests for the central class in Sequel: Dataset. If you're interested in the workings of this class, I recommend the Sequel README.rdoc. If that doesn't quench your thirst for knowledge, I recommend the beautifully-written dataset.rb and dataset/sql.rb. One can tell that this code is written by people who know stuff.
• When porting, I'm using a quickly thrown-together version of tote. A bastardisation of the idea, basically; once I had outlined the idea of tote, I just couldn't stand the thought of working without such a framework. The results are significant. Maybe it's the effect of just using some new framework, I don't know. But I look forward to writing the real tote.
• The increased programming activity has led to increased bug reporting activity. That makes me feel a bit relieved; for a while there I wasn't reporting as many bugs — I thought maybe we were running out of them. 哈哈
• I've really been working two weeks' worth of grant work lately, but haven't gotten around to blogging. Therefore, I'll keep this post short, and get back to my TDD-on-crack coding, and then hopefully give another short update later in the week. In that post, I promise to tell you how to use this new database module in your own Perl 6 projects! Until then, you'll just have to use the tests as guidance.

I wish to thank The Perl Foundation for sponsoring the Web.pm effort.