The black hole…
Normally I do not post on every perl module I release. And that is good, or you will be feeling spammed. Why this module is different? Because I adopted Text::BibTeX a long time ago, and had a lot of complaints about its installation mechanism. This was mainly due to the fact that Text::BibTeX depended on […]
Probably you know that I was a teacher at the Computer Science Department at Universidade do Minho. There I was a C and Perl teacher, as well as other classes that are not relevant for this post. Now, I am working at Instituto Politécnico do Porto, in the Escola Superior de Estudos Industriais e de […]
Quiki 0.01 was released last night. It can’t be considered a stable release. While it is usable (in fact Quiki homepage is hosted in Quiki) we know that a lot of details are missing to make it a real wiki system. The truth is that the Request Tracker queue created automatically for CPAN modules is […]
In the last days I have been developing a Restful API for Dicionário Aberto. While Dicionário Aberto is a dictionary for the Portuguese language and therefore most users are Portuguese I prefer to describe the API here in English. You can use a JSON or XML approach. URLs are the same. You can just change […]
At the present moment in my free time (that is going to be all day if I do not find a job in the next days) I am developing, together with Smash, another wiki in Perl,named Quiki. Quiki is being developed with DokuWiki in mind. The main idea is to have a small base of […]
Next week will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, the tenth Yet Another Perl Conference Europe, also known as YAPC::EU::2009. This event was proposed by José Castro and myself, and is being organized by us with Magda Joana Silva. Things are almost ready. T-Shirts were bought, proceedings are printed, badges are ready (not for late registered […]
Today I’ve sent an email to Michael Schwern, creator of ExtUtils::MakeMaker module asking for some help. In the subject line I wrote something like: “Need help from the God“. This is his answer… 1. And God said unto ambs: 2. Blessed are the built-ins; for they shall work for all. 3. Blessed is require(); for […]