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CPAN Day Upload!
Saturday, August 16th, 2014Happy CPAN day, everyone! If I’m reading the history right, it’s been nineteen years since CPAN went live, and it’s thrived since then.
Thanks in part to Neil Bowers’ steady blogging, I’ve finally uploaded a module of my own to CPAN. I am tickled pink to see the new module show on search.cpan.org already; I’m sure it’ll be on metacpan in a few minutes. (I even got my picture to work!)
I also uploaded a maintenance release of a module Tomas Doran gave me co-maint on, because I had changes and he is alway extremely busy. I was happy to update it and get it put on CPAN. That one will show, as it’s an existing module.
There’s a few hours left in CPAN day, so if you’ve got something to share, now is a great time!
PBP: 030 Ambiguous Abbreviations
Thursday, August 14th, 2014This boils down to “don’t abbreviate when it isn’t clear.” The response to this should be, “Well, duh!” (more…)
PBP: Too Many Posts? Feedback, please!
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014A commenter on another one of the PBP posts pointed requested I stop posting so often.
Rather than have a discussion there in comments where it is easy to get lost, I thought I’d start a new post and ask: Is it too many posts? Is is useless? Should I stop? (more…)
PBP: 029 Abbreviations
Monday, August 11th, 2014Abbreviations are hard, and the PBP suggests making them by keeping the start of each word, rather than other habits like chopping out vowels or other ways to shorten thing. It has an effective reason why in a ftnt. (more…)
PBP: 028 Capitalization
Thursday, August 7th, 2014The PBP suggests using different formats of case to help explain what a thing is. (more…)
PBP: 027 Underscores
Monday, August 4th, 2014The PBP suggests using underscores to separate phrases in a variable name. Since we can’t use spaces or hyphens, as English (and many other languages, honestly) would have us do, we have to use something else.
The PBP suggests an underscore. Problem: I dislike underscores. (more…)
PBP: 026 Arrays and Hashes
Thursday, July 31st, 2014The PBP suggests naming for hashes and arrays; hashes in the singular, and arrays in the plural. (more…)
PBP: 025 Reference Variables
Monday, July 28th, 2014The PBP suggests suffixing reference variables with _ref. The book notes in a footnote that this is the only type of “Hungarian notation” suggested in the book. That’s good, because Hungarian notation is a bad idea. (more…)