NEILB's Blog

If you're using Net::Todoist I'd be interested in hearing from you. If you're using the Todoist todo-list app, and would be interested in using an API for it, then this might be of interest to you too. I've completely rewritten the module, changing the interface, and talking to more recent REST API. Should I release this under a new name, or not worry about back-compat? I'm leaning towards the latter.

The issue of logos regularly comes up with respect to Perl, and the problem of O'Reilly's ownership then does as well, with vague descriptions of the situation. I wanted to know what the real situation is, so I asked Tim O'Reilly.

Sometimes you read a book and it introduces a term that immediately becomes part of your vocabulary. In this post fREW Schmidt and I describe phrases and concepts that we picked up from specific books.

The second challenge in this week's Perl Weekly Challenge is to write a solver for a wordsearch grid. I suggested this challenge to Mohammad, so I felt honour-bound to write up my solution.

My current PAUSE tidy-up project is to resolve inconsistent first-come permissions on indexed distributions. In working on this I've created several scripts, and updated some modules. In this post I'll go through the most recent things I've done.

Text::Table::Tiny is a simple module for generating ASCII tables from array data. A year ago I described some changes I was working on. I have just done a second developer release. If you use this module, please give this release a go, and let me know if anything unexpected happens.

In the past, if multiple people released the same distribution, and each of them added new modules to the distribution, then you'd end up with different people having ownership of modules making up a single distribution. That's a pain if you want to give co-maint to someone. PAUSE has been fixed now, to ensure consistent permissions, but there are historical inconsistencies. I'll describe the problem, and how we're fixing it.

Text::Table::Tiny is a simple module for generating ASCII tables from array data. I use it in lots of places, which is why I adopted it, and have evolved it. This post describes changes I'm working on, to give people a chance to comment, before the changes are locked in.

One of the Perl weekly challenges this week is to use the language detection API at detectlanguage.com. This takes a string of UTF-8 text, and tell you what language or languages it might be. This blog post describes my first cut at a Perl 5 API.

This is my solution to the challenge I set earlier this week: what's the longest word you can spell by traversing US states, taking the initial or initials of the states as you pass through them, without revisiting any states?