Re: [pm-h] July Houston.pm: Call for presentation

2014-06-24 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
Yay top posting! At my functional programming group we watched a video from Erlang Factory about Haskell and I think it went alright since we didn't have a local resource who wanted to do a presentation about Haskell.  One other thing we tried last month was "office hours" where people who self

Re: [pm-h] brian d foy CPAN workshop next Thursday

2014-07-25 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
I would like to attend. On Friday, July 25, 2014 11:45 AM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: I just got a message from brian d foy. He's in town and is volunteering to do a workshop on CPAN next Thursday night, if there is interest. This is a great opportunity if you don't yet do CPAN (mu

Re: [pm-h] Net-SFTP-Foreign-Tempdir-Extract

2014-09-01 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
Interesting module. Thanks! I am curious why you feel like "Moo" is drinking the kool-aid and rolled your own (Package::New)? What about Moo do you find technically deficient? Mark On Monday, September 1, 2014 3:38 PM, Perl Developer via Houston wrote: Hey, laziness is a virtue, right?

Re: [pm-h] Net-SFTP-Foreign-Tempdir-Extract

2014-09-03 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
Sorry for the delay in replying. I find that Moo eliminates most of the boilerplate "smart" code initialization you talk about in Package::New documentation and it empowers me to use Roles as a means of separating concerns for reusable code in a library that doesn't rely on inheritance based di

Re: [pm-h] Performance discussion after the meeting.

2014-10-13 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
Benchmark is the bomb. I have used it for exactly the kind of comparisons that Wade did in a different context: comparing various Perl user agents against LWP::UserAgent. Talk recommendations and/or tl;dr - Use HTTP::Tiny if possible (especially if your base Perl is 5.14 or later), or LWP::Cu

Re: [pm-h] Fwd: [pm_groups] YAPC::NA::2015: Salt Lake City: June 8-10, 2015

2014-11-21 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
Already reserved my room :) On Thursday, November 20, 2014 10:29 PM, Todd Rinaldo via Houston wrote: Forwarding. They've got a blog post about the hotel too already. -- Forwarded message -- From: James E Keenan Date: Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 7:44 PM Subject: [pm_groups

Re: [pm-h] oauth

2015-04-21 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
Fraser, There are not only 2 versions of OAUTH out there, there are also *different* types of OAUTH authentication within each version with different behaviors from endpoints. See, for example, the RFC covering OAUTH 2.0: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749  Generally, the most common type of OAU

Re: [pm-h] Looking for PSGI web server Daemon

2015-06-08 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
Sounds like a new Perl module to me :-) On Monday, June 8, 2015 5:52 PM, Michael R. Davis via Houston wrote: >> enterprise way to deploy as a daemon that starts on reboot, >> start/stop/reload with service control, ensures the daemons is running,  >> etc.    > From: Andrew Solomo

Re: [pm-h] Looking for PSGI web server Daemon

2015-06-09 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
I just found out about Gazelle this morning - looks really cool for PSGI apps. Gazelle - Preforked Plack Handler for performance freaks - metacpan.org |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Gazelle - Preforked Plack Handler for performance freaks - metacpan.orgPreforked Plack Handler for performance

Re: [pm-h] modulemaker alternatives?

2015-06-22 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
I pretty much *always* use Dist::Zilla to start a new CPAN distribution.  I even started my own minting template, but haven't *quite* ironed out all of the details on that yet. Got stuck with some of the template substitution stuff not doing what I expected. But before Dist::Zilla, I used Module

Re: [pm-h] modulemaker alternatives?

2015-06-22 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
Recent MakeMakers generate META.yaml and META.json FWIW. See the "make distmeta" rule in the output Makefile. On Monday, June 22, 2015 10:01 AM, B. Estrade via Houston wrote: I tend to use the old h2xs style, but the major drawback is that it doesn't generate a META.yaml (even a ba

Re: [pm-h] Looking for PSGI web server Daemon

2015-06-26 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
Let me recommend you read over the DEPLOYMENT section of this cookbook: http://mojolicio.us/perldoc/Mojolicious/Guides/Cookbook I also have been enjoying my experiments with Mojolicious. On Friday, June 26, 2015 3:52 PM, Michael R. Davis via Houston wrote: Perl Folks, I just want

Re: [pm-h] Linux Distribution Selection

2016-01-07 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
I am way WAY too impatient/ignorant to compile an entire Linux from source these days. I'll take whatever the distro vendor gives me (except for Perl :)) I do know I pretty much can't stand KDE but beyond that... no idea. On Thursday, January 7, 2016 4:22 PM, Steven Lembark via Houston wr

Re: [pm-h] Bitten by "Experimental keys on scalar is now forbidden" on perl 5.23.X - How not to use keys!

2016-01-26 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
It was my understanding that most of the "automagic dereferencing" behaviors are being removed because although they *usually* do what you mean, they sometimes do not and that leads to mysterious and difficult to track down bugs. Mark On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 10:05 AM, Robert Stone via

Re: [pm-h] Looking for suggestions on new books

2016-01-26 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
The best Perl book I ever read -- and one of the best general programming technique books -- was Higher Order Perl. It's available as a free ebook now, but still in print if you want a hard copy. Higher-Order Perl |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | Higher-Order PerlHigher-Order Perl by Mark Jas

Re: [pm-h] contractor for web site design

2016-04-01 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
You should spend an hour learning about / trying out Contenticious | | | Contenticious build web sites from markdown files || | It sounds like about 95% of what you want right out of the box.  All you have to do is write the simple markdown files and execute one script and th

Re: [pm-h] contractor for web site design

2016-04-08 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
There's Galileo CMS which is also built on top of Mojolicious Tom. It's on metacpan too if you want to see it. On Friday, April 8, 2016 10:55 AM, Tom Browder wrote: On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Matt Dees wrote: > If you are interested in that class of tools  I would also check out

Re: [pm-h] perldoc contenticious

2016-05-04 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
On Wednesday, May 4, 2016 6:59 PM, Russell Harris via Houston wrote: > I am trying to execute the instruction found in the > Contenticious Perldoc Sitemap (the file 01_Perldoc.md): Are you sure it's installed on your system? SNIP mallen-rMBP:perl mallen$ cpanm Contenticious Contentici

Re: [pm-h] perldoc contenticious

2016-05-05 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
Looks like your files are not where perldoc is expecting them to be. If you cd /home/rlh/perl5 you should be able to do something like mallen-rMBP:perl5 mallen$ pwd /Users/mallen/perl5 mallen-rMBP:perl5 mallen$ find . -name Contenticious* -print ./perlbrew/perls/perl-5.22.0/lib/site_perl/5.22.0/

[pm-h] Free online OCaml class

2016-07-12 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
I know this is off topic for Perl, but I thought I'd throw it out anyway because learning functional methods and programming styles will make you a better Perl programmer. (How's that for a future talk topic, Wade? Not sure I can make the meeting this month, but maybe August...) Last fall I was

Re: [pm-h] Houston.pm August meeting

2016-07-21 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
Still pretty interested in talking about how programming Perl in a functional way will make you a better Perl programmer. On Thursday, July 21, 2016 10:25 PM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: It seems like only a week ago we were having our July social meeting, and now it's time to l

Re: [pm-h] Houston.pm August meeting

2016-07-21 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
I'd also be up for expanding my article about regex complexity and Perl optimization work since 5.10 to the current day into a full blown talk.  https://gist.github.com/mrallen1/8bc1381ab30ae28701644b0a487ad1b2 On Thursday, July 21, 2016 10:33 PM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston wrote: I

Re: [pm-h] Houston.pm August meeting

2016-07-22 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
Dang it - I forgot I will be out of town August 11.  Maybe I can do one of these topics for September.  On Friday, July 22, 2016 7:32 AM, G. Wade Johnson wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 05:34:19 + (UTC) Mark Allen wrote: > Still pretty interested in talking about how programming Perl

[pm-h] September talk

2016-08-28 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
I'd like to propose this talk for September's Perl meeting- How Functional Programming Made Me Better at Perl Although most people treat Perl as an imperative language, it has always been possible to use functional programming idioms in Perl 5. Vastly better described by Mark Jason Dominius in

Re: [pm-h] September talk

2016-08-28 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
I can go in October - didn't know Julian had a topic 😄 Sounds good Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 28, 2016, at 12:01 PM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston > wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 11:24:22 -0500 > Mark Allen via Houston wrote: > >> I'd like to propose this

Re: [pm-h] October Houston.pm technical meeting: How Functional Programming Made Me Better at Perl

2016-10-10 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
Sure video away if you wish 😊 Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 10, 2016, at 5:30 PM, G. Wade Johnson via Houston > wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 15:11:58 -0500 > Will Seymour via Houston wrote: > >> Unfortunately, I will be taking my son to his scout meeting then. I'm >> really interested in M

Re: [pm-h] Recording of tonight's Houston.pm presentation.

2016-10-14 Thread Mark Allen via Houston
Slides are posted at:  https://speakerdeck.com/mrallen1/functional-programming-made-me-a-better-perl-developer The totally raw video (which stopped after 1 hour and 12 minutes - sorry) is here: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AkuFmdw34K2Hhgp0ixcXIGEcOjhb (Trivia: compressed to 212 MB from 919 MB raw)