2013

4 posts

cpan2rpm on CentOS 6.4

I’ve just been building up a new server with CentOS 6.4 and noticed that cpan2rpm wouldn’t work for some Perl modules. The error you get is as follows. Metadata retrieval Can't locate object method "interpolate" via package "Pod::Text" at …

Shadowmagic by John Lenahan

I’ve not long finished reading Shadowmagic by John Lenahan - it was free on the iTunes Store at some point in the past but I can’t remember whether it was a Starbucks promo or if it was just the free book of the week. It’s got magic and plenty of humour and I …

DigitalOcean - first impressions

A couple of friends mentioned they were having a look at http://www.digitalocean.com/ as a VPS provider so I thought I’d take a quick look myself. The signup process is painless, just an email address and a password required and you’re into a control panel that is …

DBIx::Class default column value

Having read the docs for DBIx::Class::Row new() and DBIx::Class::ResultSource add_columns() it’s hard to know whether it’s better to (a) override new() for the Result module and set a default value in the method params, or (b) use default_value in the add_columns …