Laufeyjarson writes…

All through these blog pages, I’ve been linking to CPAN modules I’m talking about so that it’s easy for readers to find them.  I knew I was linking to specific versions, but couldn’t figure out how to link to the latest version of the module.  I noticed the docs for Task::Kensho do it, and am going to start doing it too.

The secret is to use links like this:  http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Task%3A%3AKensho

The %3A are the URI encoding of a : so this goes to http://search.cpan.org/perldoc and searches for the module name automatically.  Neat.

The break in my blogging was to start a new job.  It’s kept me incredibly busy.  I’m now a “Senior Infrastructure Architect” and being paid to write and maintain complex Perl scripts.  It means lots more things in Perl to learn and see, but may limit what I can blog about, as I have to be careful of the NDA.  I’m going to try and get back to this blog, though.

I reinstalled Perl the other day.  It was no trouble; it came with my Linux distribution.

Then I had to reinstall all the missing modules.

That should be easy!  I typed ‘autobundle’ in CPAN before I upgraded, and it wrote out a Bundle file.  All should be well!  I should just have to type “perl -MCPAN -e ‘install Bundle::Snapshot_2009_09_09 and let it go do what it needs to do.

Pity it doesn’t work that well.

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