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).

2011-11-13 00:52:18 $$5747 v1049: Info: Need to get uriid[S/SP/SPAZM/Hadoop-Streaming-0.113160.tar.gz] (paused:337)
2011-11-13 00:52:18 $$5747 v1049: Info: Going to fetch uriid[S/SP/SPAZM/Hadoop-Streaming-0.113160.tar.gz] (paused:625)
2011-11-13 00:52:18 $$5747 v1049: Info: Requesting a GET on uri [ftp://pause.perl.org/incoming/Hadoop-Streaming-0.113160.tar.gz] (paused:647)
2011-11-13 00:52:19 $$5747 v1049: Info: renamed '/home/ftp/tmp/S/SP/SPAZM/Hadoop-Streaming-0.113160.tar.gz' to '/home/ftp/pub/PAUSE/authors/id/S/SP/SPAZM/Hadoop-Streaming-0.113160.tar.gz' (paused:760)
2011-11-13 00:52:19 $$5747 v1049: Info: Got S/SP/SPAZM/Hadoop-Streaming-0.113160.tar.gz (size 28088) (paused:496)
2011-11-13 00:52:20 $$5747 v1049: Info: Sent 'has entered' email about uriid[S/SP/SPAZM/Hadoop-Streaming-0.113160.tar.gz] (paused:561)
2011-11-13 00:53:46 $$5747 v1049: Info: Verified S/SP/SPAZM/Hadoop-Streaming-0.113160.tar.gz (paused:308)
2011-11-13 00:53:46 $$5747 v1049: Info: Started mldistwatch for lpath[/home/ftp/pub/PAUSE/authors/id/S/SP/SPAZM/Hadoop-Streaming-0.113160.tar.gz] with pid[11168] (paused:313)

What dreams may come ... must give us PAUSE

People's CPAN ids came up again at the Mongers on Wednesday. We had several in the crowd: gray, Pip, and Beppu. This was Pip's first visit to LA.pm.org since we've started back up.

I'd like to get a PAUSE ID, so I too can post to CPAN. But the first question is always "what modules are you going to post?" and if I knew that... I'd have them done by now. Maybe the module I'll write for the January mongers will need a public home.

And with that, I should really be getting off to sleep, perchance to dream.

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
-- Hamlet by Billy Shakespeare.

Update: it says "what are you going to contribute", that's a whole other kettle of fish. This looks like a test I could pass.