Israeli Perl Workshop 2013 - 25 February 2013

(The Hebrew text will be followed by an English one).

Being subscribed to the ACT mailing list gives you a nice preview of upcoming Perl events. Usually I enjoy this, but at the moment I'm a tiny bit depressed by all the ...

New Perl module: Action::Retry

I’ve just released a new module called Action::Retry.

Use it when you want to run some code until it succeeds, waiting between two retries.

A simple way to use it is :

Action::Retry->new( attempt_code => sub [...]

Are you curious to see how to create a real app from scratch with Perl Dancer, using DBIX::Class ? Well, my Perl Dancer Advent Calendar article has been published saturday :

http://advent.perldancer.org/2010/11

Enjoy !

Perl Dancer should at least ring a bell to you : it's a popular Perl micro web framework. Route based, easy to use, simple clean design, with low dependancies, Dancer is gaining in popularity and maturity.

Version 1.2 has been released ( see sawyer [...]

After many tests on my side, I got confirmation from this page : it looks like ulimit doesn't work for memory limitation starting from Mac OS 10.5. That's a shame...

perl -E 'use BSD::Resource;  setrlimit(RLIMIT_VMEM, 2000, 2000); my $s; for [...]

Today I discovered an easy way to merge PDFs files using Perl.

In my current project, I have to automatically generate a technical documentation from my perl modules PODs. It's easy to create one PDF file for each modules, but then I need to merge [...]

Code Snippets, Syntax Highlighting, Source examples, Verbatim text, etc...

I'm in the metro of Paris, testing Typepad :

• new beta account I just subscribed to
• new mobile version of the blog
• Iphone App
• automatic Twitter posting
• per category feeds

Typepad is Based on Movable Type, the best blog system ouuta there. It's Perl base [...]

Perl tests in Hudson

I'm willing to automate the unit testing of my Perl modules, by plugging them into Hudson. Hudson is a continuous integration server, it "monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cro [...]

After few months of delay, Curses::Toolkit is now available on CPAN.

Curses::Toolkit tries to be a modern toolkit to implement semi-graphical interfaces using Curses. It's inspired by Gtk.

I gave a presentation of Curses::Toolkit at the French Perl Wor [...]

The new server I had setup few weeks ago got hacked, brute force ssh attacks being made from it... I had spent some time setting it up, and now I'm bored.

So, I decided to migrate my blog to a hosted solution. As I'm a big fan of movable type, I decid [...]