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C# Tips

Posted on March 28, 2020. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , |

Whether you’re still learning C# or you already have some experience, there will always be gaps in your knowledge, places where you are clueless as to your ignorance. In the series of articles in C# Tips I will provide a whole host of useful information about the sometimes underused or unknown features of both C# […]

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Scripting LibreOffice with Python

Posted on March 5, 2020. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

Scripting LibreOffice with Python This tutorial was originally written by Jannie Theunissen on onesheep.org. However, the website has been down for a while and this a clone from the web.archive.org backup. via r/libreoffice [reddit]

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Docker, Perl and GitHub

Posted on January 25, 2020. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

Docker, Perl and GitHub When maintaining a Perl package used by multiple users/companies (or not), you absolutely want to know how your code behaves on different versions of Perl. Even if you could have multiple versions of Perl installed on your development environment, most of the time, the development is only performed using a single […]

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Ruby Refactoring Kata – Tennis Game [series of YT videos]

Posted on July 8, 2019. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , |

Ruby Refactoring Kata – Tennis Game [series of YT videos] ~2 weeks ago I’ve decided to give a try to the Ruby Refactoring kata called Tennis Game. Those katas allow practicing refactoring, they usually come with mostly OK test coverage, so that you can focus on the code transformations.

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git-push target for Makefile (via ExtUtils::MakeMaker)

Posted on May 25, 2019. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

git-push target for Makefile (via ExtUtils::MakeMaker) I was trying to automate more (=keep as far away as possible) the process of pushing to github through a Makefile and I came up with the following simplistic approach.

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Benchmarks target in Makefile

Posted on May 25, 2019. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , |

Benchmarks target in Makefile I would like to add a target for running benchmarks on my code to the Makefile produced by ExtUtils::MakeMaker I already have a benhmarks.pl file which does everything and prints a report. I would like to have it executed whenever I do: make benchmarks . And only then because it is […]

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Managing Your Travis CI Config Files with App::CISetup

Posted on May 24, 2019. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Managing Your Travis CI Config Files with App::CISetup If you write software, you (hopefully) write tests. If you write tests, it’s easy to forget to run them. Using Continuous Integration (CI) for your software is one way around this. Many of us use Travis CI for CI. In this post we’ll go over ways to […]

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Dist::Zilla::Starter – Guide to getting started with Dist::Zilla

Posted on May 18, 2019. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

Dist::Zilla::Starter – Guide to getting started with Dist::Zilla I’ve been trying to put together this guide for a while, as a modern introduction to the intentions and inner workings of Dist::Zilla, there isn’t much out there that really tells you how it works and why. Dist::Zilla::Starter @ MetaCPAN

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Efficient Arduino Programming with Arduino CLI and Visual Studio Code

Posted on April 16, 2019. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

Efficient Arduino Programming with Arduino CLI and Visual Studio Code This tutorial will demonstrate how to use VS Code to build for and program an Arduino — all without ever opening the comfortable-yet-restricting Arduino IDE. We’ll try to step through, as much as possible, how the VS Code/Arduino CLI pair can be used to develop […]

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The River of CPAN

Posted on April 15, 2019. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , |

The River of CPAN This blog post describes a model that we found useful for talking about CPAN dependencies and reverse dependencies at the QA Hackathon. At the head of the river is Perl itself with the core modules. The river flows into the sea, which contains all distributions that aren’t used by any other […]

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