Hadoop::Streaming v0.122420 released

Hadoop::Streaming perl module v0.122420 released to CPAN today.

Yanick was kind enough to send me a patch (Pull Request #2) to clean up the formatting of the POD documentation. Thank you for the patch Yanick! I love patches and pull requests! Woot!

You know what else I love? Dist::Zilla! Thanks Ricardo! Here are the complete steps to release a new version and push it to CPAN after merging in the pull request:
git pull && dzil release

Steps accomplished by dzil release:

1. generate new version number
   
2. podweaver magic to generate structured POD
   
3. boilerplate: create LICENSE, MANIFEST, META.json, META.yml, Makefile, etc.
   
4. create tar file of distribution
   
5. extract tar file and run all tests
   
6. verify no dirty files in git
   
7. update Changes file to include the new version number.
   
8. git commit Changes file
   
9. upload tar file to cpan
   
10. git tag with version number
    
11. git push to origin
    

HackDay! 11/12/11

David (DDubs!) came over for a HACKDAY today. Fun times!

He's in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. He's installing SVN on localhost, with the full webDAV thing. Why? So he can practice migrating SVN to git. Yes, crazy land. I'm more looking forward to the actual project, a Bayesian Classifier to practice with Moose.

I've updated my App::PM::Website tool for maintaining the Los Angeles Perl Mongers website. It now uses Lingua::EN::Numbers::Ordinate to render dates like "Wednesday the 7th" instead of "Wednesday the 7." That's one more piece of manual hard coding replaced with software. Woot! Come on out on December 7th for Mike's talk on VOIP!

I really do want to get this code into a state where it's releasable to CPAN and usable by other monger groups. Maybe by making my vapor App::PM::Toolbox into reality? Why am I so tentative on releasing that?

I also updated and released v0.113160 of Hadoop::Streaming perl module, mostly to use Any::Moose. I made the changes a few months ago at a user's request. I sent him a beta version for testing, and it got lost in the weeds. I merged the code over today from feature/mouse and pushed it out. While I was in there, I updated the documentation in the main package to show how to use the '-archive' flag to hadoop.

I love typing 'dzil release' and having my Changes file updated, checked into git, release git tagged, release built and bundle pushed to PAUSE for CPAN.

If I had checked github first, I would have seen this lovely change request waiting where a user had made the Any::Moose conversion for me. My first incoming github change request. ROCKSTAR!

This post brought to you by the number 30 and the letter D (eltron).

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New Year, New Releases

I opened my cpan mail today and received a lovely email from a user of one of my CPAN modules, Hadoop::Streaming. Reading a nice comment was a wonderful way to start the first Monday of this New Year. Included with the praise was a bug report -- double plus good!

You have absolutely no idea (or perhaps you do) how happy I was to see that there is a hadoop streaming module for perl. So I thank you for making this available! I wonder if you are still working on it or have plans to continue working on it? Are there many users to your knowledge? Finally, I've tried to run the example code myself under perl 5.12.2 and receive bareword errors when running the mapper locally.

---- Frank S Fejes III

Looking at the package and the error output in his email I realized that my hastily pushed out synopsis example had not been code reviewed -- it wouldn't compile as I wasn't quoting the arguments to the Moose keyword 'with.'

It was a small matter to fix and a breeze to push to cpan via the magic of Dist::Zilla. Thanks Ricardo!

1. clone code from github repo : git clone git@github.com:spazm/hadoop-streaming-frontend.git
2. edit lib/Hadoop/Streaming.pm to fix the Synopsis pod
3. add comment to Changes file
4. commit the change locally and back to github: git commit && git push origin master
5. magic Dist::Zilla command, dzil release, which took care of:
   1. checking for file modified files not checked in to git
   2. running pod weaver,
   3. running tests,
   4. updating the release version in Changes file,
   5. git commit Changes,
   6. git push origin master,
   7. git branch,
   8. tar+gz release,
   9. push release to CPAN

While checking my CPAN mail, I also found a CPANTS fail notice for Net::HTTP::Factual which is built on Net::HTTP::Spore. Spore v0.3 came out and changed the spec format again from v0.2 which was in turn different from v0.1.

I tweaked my factual .spec to work with Sport v0.2 or v0.3 and pushed it up to cpan. Same magic Dist::Zilla command.

Freshly available on CPAN:

• Hadoop Steaming v0.110030
• Net::HTTP::Factual v0.110030