Hi all,so life on the new team was short lived; I am back in the Perl team and working on a new "Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)" project. This is a relatively new approach for the Scrum team I work on and a new part of the product we are […]
So…. where to start.The last time I blogged (back in April) I wrote that I was changing from the PHP based web application team back to the Perl based test automation tools team. Well… since then the company I was at made some more changes and the Perl team was […]
So whilst I was away in Miami, I took the plunge and started installing Linux on my MacBook Pro. Being me, I decided against the sensible option of something easy like Ubuntu. I went with ArchLinux, not Manjaro (again simpler), which meant I had more learning to do and more […]
So 2014 has arrived and Perl is a dead language… still. It's been dead for maybe a decade now, despite it celebrating its 25th birthday recently. As I drive to my dayjob each day where I get paid to wrote Perl code for one of the UKs leading websites I […]
Just a quick one about a couple of games I have been playing and why. The reality is I don't play much in the way of games. Too busy by far. But occasionally I want to relax and play a game. I have a bunch of consoles and steam and […]
August 2014 marked the 19th anniversary of the amazing resource that is the Perl cpan. Node developers already know why cpan is so cool, they have npm which is a very similar tool. cpan for those who don't know is the online collection of modules for Perl. These are the […]
Hi all and welcome 2015! Happy New year one and all.As is traditional this post is a personal review of 2014 and my thoughts on 2015. 2014 for me has been a good but tough year. I was unable to travel as much as I would have liked as I […]
It's been a busy month for me; but as it comes to a close I thought I would take 10 minutes to type out a short reflection on the month. Think of it as a personal "retrospective". Perl.This month I participated in the "CPAN Pull Request Challenge". This is a […]
Hi All,so February has flown by, here is a small update on the month that was. PerlThis month I was allocated MooseX-Types-Parameterizable as part of the CPAN Pull Request Challenge. As with last months module, I started by contacting the author by email. He quickly got back to me and […]