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I dont know what it is, but whenever I get outdoors and start working with the soil and tilling earth and making compost, and hearing the wind run through the trees and putting plants in the ground, I really feel like who I am.

Maybe one day I will retire and have a garden and a few cows.

Me and another developer were discussing the fact that the SEE ALSO
      section of CPAN modules is often lacking, sometimes due to ignorance
      and other times due to arrogance.I have created a few such documents
      over time.

      One of them is [1]a list of lazy loaders and the other is [2]a list of
      SQL phrasebooks.

      We were trying to come up with some ways to make this data available
      and browseable to others.

      I figured as long as the data was in a sqlite database, that people
      could develop web and text interfaces as they pleased.
          _________________________________________________________________

References

      1. http://www.metaperl.com/article-pod/Catalog-lazy_loaders/lazy_loaders.html
      2. http://www.metaperl.com/article-pod/Catalog-sql_phrasebooks/sql_phrasebooks.pod

I banged and thrashed around a bit to learn some Haskell. I started with "Gentle Introduction to Haskell" and then "YAHT - Yet another Haskell Tutorial", but I wish I had started with "Algorithms: A Functional Programming Approach" by Rabhi and Lapalme.

This is a great book.

• NAME
• DESCRIPTION
• TOPICS
• • HTML::Seamstress Design Dilemma
  • Inversion of Control and DBI
  • The Design of the Querylet SQL Report Writer tool
  • Two Alternate Approaches to Mixin Functionality
  • Test coverage in Java
  • Plans for a Software::Design CPAN-based Magazine
  • Short-circuting method chains
  • Code and block size as complexity metrics
  • Commands::Guarded
• RESOURCES

NAME

The Month in Perl Software Design

DESCRIPTION

Overview of topics discussed on the Perl Software::Design mailing list in the months of November and December 2004.

TOPICS

HTML::Seamstress Design Dilemma

http://www.mail-archive.com/sw-design@metaperl.com/msg00095.html

Whether or not to use compiler hints to drive the HTML methodmaking capacity of the HTML::Seamstress manpage.

Whether or not to use explicit getter/setter notion for method names.

Inversion of Control and DBI

http://www.mail-archive.com/sw-design@metaperl.com/msg00072.html

How to create IOC containers for the extended information needed with DBI.

The Design of the Querylet SQL Report Writer tool

http://www.mail-archive.com/sw-design@metaperl.com/msg00068.html

Two Alternate Approaches to Mixin Functionality

http://www.mail-archive.com/sw-design@metaperl.com/msg00060.html

the Class::MixinFactory manpage by Simon Cavaletto is a new module offering another approach to handling the problems inherent in multiple inheritance. The module lists other approaches such as delegation and then shows the utility of __MODULE__ in solving said problems.

Brannon responds with working functional and protoype-based object solutions which cover the apparent functionality of __MODULE__. Cavaletto assesses.

Stosberg discusses plugins in the context of CGI::Application::Plugin::*. Cavaletto evaluates.

Test coverage in Java

http://www.mail-archive.com/sw-design@metaperl.com/msg00056.html

Plans for a Software::Design CPAN-based Magazine

http://www.mail-archive.com/sw-design@metaperl.com/msg00043.html

Discussed at length then rejeected.

Short-circuting method chains

http://www.mail-archive.com/sw-design@metaperl.com/msg00033.html

Method chaining is attractive but what about exceptions thrown in the middle of the chain?

Code and block size as complexity metrics

http://www.mail-archive.com/sw-design@metaperl.com/msg00023.html

Commands::Guarded

http://www.mail-archive.com/sw-design@metaperl.com/msg00022.html

Presented at Usenix, Trey Harris discusses the motivation and design of his module design to support resumable, point-checking, verbose, robust scripting in Perl.

RESOURCES

Perl Software::Design mailing list

http://www.metaperl.com/sw-design

The Perl Software::Design mailing list is available from a number of sources:

nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.software-design http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.software-design sw-design-subscribe@metaperl.com

Here are the mailing list archives to give you an idea of the content:

http://www.mail-archive.com/sw-design@metaperl.com/

This document

http://www.metaperl.com/sw-design/review/2004/12/12.pod http://www.metaperl.com/sw-design/review/2004/12/12.txt http://www.metaperl.com/sw-design/review/2004/12/12.html

Anyway, if anyone knows of anything anywhere in the US, please have them get in touch with me, my resume is here and I should add to it: I am the official maintainer of the soon-to-be-released http://dbi.perl.org website.