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Help end licensing under "same terms as Perl itself"
I've posted before about the problems with "same terms as Perl" licensing, not the least of which is the question "which version of Perl are you referring to?" I bet that most people who use "same terms as Perl itself" used it for the same reason I did: because it was the easiest way to do it, and I was lazy. So to help out my lazy sisters and...
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Andy Lester
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Jul 31, 2009 9:19 AM
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Perlbuzz news roundup for 2009-07-30
These links are collected from the Perlbuzz Twitter feed. If you have suggestions for news bits, please mail me at andy@perlbuzz.com. Thoughts on process in the Perl 5 Corehackers project (use.perl.org) Jesse Vincent has been hacking on lots of goodness: (blog.fsck.com) RT @clonezone Would someone please put up descriptions of why the White...
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Andy Lester
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Jul 30, 2009 9:19 AM
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Perlmonks users, your passwords have been published
Just in case you missed my Tweets about it, or don't read any other Perl blogs, or didn't receive the mail sent out from Perlmonks, Perlmonks was compromised. Passwords for users were published to the net. Carl Masak has this analysis of the passwords and their weakness. It's clear, too, that many of the passwords were standard passwords meant...
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Andy Lester
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Jul 30, 2009 7:19 AM
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Coverity scans the Parrot project again
Back in 2007, I worked with David Maxwell of Coverity to get Parrot scanned by Coverity Prevent. Coverity Prevent is a static C analysis tool that looks for potential bugs in a codebase, and it's far more comprehensive than built-in GCC warnings or splint. It's also expensive, licensed per-seat, but Coverity offers a service to open source...
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Andy Lester
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Jul 28, 2009 3:19 AM
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On explicitly welcoming participants to your open source projects
This week at OSCON, Kirrily Robert, a/k/a Skud, gave a great keynote (slides, video) about women in open source, and how projects can improve by welcoming these potential contributors. I loved it, and not just because of the importance of equality in society in general. From the sake of the quality of our projects, we need to keep the welcoming...
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Andy Lester
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Jul 28, 2009 1:19 AM
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Updates to perl-begin.org
Shlomi Fish wrote in to tell about updates on the site for Perl beginners with which he's involved: After the last news item, a lot of work was invested into Perl-Begin.org, the Perl Beginners' Site, making it even better than it used to be. Here's a summary of the changes: Several new topical pages were added: Perl and Databases GUI...
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Andy Lester
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Jul 27, 2009 9:19 AM
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Bonus-sized Perlbuzz news roundup for 2009-07-26
Lots of stuff happening over the past week because of OSCON. These links are collected from the Perlbuzz Twitter feed. If you have suggestions for news bits, please mail me at andy@perlbuzz.com. Simon Cozens is "about 60% of the way there" working on a new way to install web apps (simon-cozens.org) vim configs including key bindings for Ack in...
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Andy Lester
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Jul 26, 2009 1:20 PM
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My to-do list always grows post-OSCON
Every year at OSCON I come home with a head full of ideas, and better yet, a huge list of new things to work on. Since the book is now done, and OSCON is now over, there's a chance I could work on them. Ack plug-ins I've been wanting to have plug-ins for ack for at least a year now, and I've connected with a number of people like Randy J. Ray...
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Andy Lester
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Jul 24, 2009 3:19 PM
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Quickies from Wednesday, OSCON 2009
I'm sitting in the communication lobby on the fringe of the p5p meeting discussing potential ways of doing releases for Perl 5. It's quite a brain-dump of Perl 5 names: Chip Salzenberg, David Adler, Patrick Michaud, David Wheeler, Robert Spier, Paul Fenwick, Jacinta Richardson, Tim Bunce, Michael Schwern, Ricardo Signes and Jesse Vincent. Here...
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Andy Lester
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Jul 22, 2009 9:56 PM
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What should the world know about Perl?
Jim Brandt of the Perl Foundation writes for input from the community. At OSCON this year, on Wednesday night at 7 PM in Exhibit Hall 3, I'm participating in a Language Roundtable Session with representatives from some of the other popular open source languages. We're going to talk about some of the best and worst features of our preferred...
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Andy Lester
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Jul 19, 2009 11:56 PM
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Perlbuzz news roundup for 2009-07-17
These links are collected from the Perlbuzz Twitter feed. If you have suggestions for news bits, please mail me at andy@perlbuzz.com. What's Ricardo Signes working on? (rjbs.manxome.org) Test::Pod now checks for illegal L constructs (perlbuzz.com) Changes in the board of the Perl Foundation (news.perlfoundation.org) Parrot covered in SDTimes...
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Andy Lester
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Jul 17, 2009 3:56 PM
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Test::Pod 1.40 now checks for illegal L constructs
It will be interesting to see what, if anything, barfs because of the new Test::Pod. This POD construct is illegal according to perlpodspec, and will not be formatted correctly on search.cpan.org, either: L<perlbuzz|http://perlbuzz.com> Test::Pod catches it now. My wonder is how many people are using it. Test::Pod also requires Perl 5.8...
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Andy Lester
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Jul 12, 2009 11:25 PM
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Perlbuzz news roundup for 2009-07-11
These links are collected from the Perlbuzz Twitter feed. If you have suggestions for news bits, please mail me at andy@perlbuzz.com. Tim Bunce surveys customer relationship management systems in Perl (blog.timbunce.org) Sending mail through Gmail with Perl (nixtutor.com) From the DarkPAN: "The Perl community should move forward without...
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Andy Lester
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Jul 11, 2009 9:25 PM
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mod_perlite helps Perl gain ground in the PHP arena
Michele Beltrame wrote in about the mod_perlite project, which I'd love to see take off. mod_perl has never been easy to install, and ISPs and webhosts are loathe to use it for security reasons. mod_perlite would provide easy access to Perl without the weight of CGI. mod_perlite is an interesting Apache module currently under development. I'd...
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Andy Lester
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Jul 7, 2009 7:25 AM
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Introducing CPANHQ
By Shlomi Fish Most people who are actively developing using Perl are familiar with sites for searching CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) such as search.cpan.org and kobesearch.cpan.org. These sites provide a simple search bar where users can search for keywords or key phrases, and find a list of results. These sites also feature...
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Andy Lester
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Jul 6, 2009 7:24 AM
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