All about Mojolicious

April 22, 2015Posted inMojolicious, Perl
Mojolicious is a web development framework for Perl, similar to Catalyst but with fewer dependencies and a gentler learning curve. Josette's blog has a two part interview with Sebastian Riedel, one of…

Find Git commits by email address

April 15, 2015Posted inGit
Often in Git you'll want to find a list of commits from a given author or organisation. Fortunately this is a simple enough task with two arguments to git log: git…

Hello World in Node.js

April 8, 2015Posted inNode.js
Recently I've been playing around with Node.js at work as the Mozilla Open Badges reference implementation uses it. After a while we realised it would be easier to deploy a…

PHP developer at Lets for Life

February 9, 2015Posted inJobs
Lets for Life are looking for a PHP developer to work on their internal back office systems. They're set up to let properties to people with disabilities and are part of…

Static sites with Templer

September 21, 2014Posted inPerl, WordPress
I run a lot of personal and professional sites for my own activities, and until recently I'd used WordPress to manage the content on them. However, this felt a bit wasteful…

All about Dancer

August 14, 2014Posted inDancer, Frameworks
Dancer is a web development framework, similar to Symfony and Zend but written in Perl. Josette’s blog has a three part interview with Sawyer X, one of the core developers on Dancer.…

WordPress 3.9.2 released

August 8, 2014Posted inWordPress
A new version of WordPress has been released this week: 3.9.2. This is a security release, so everyone is urged to update as soon as possible. There are no database…

Disabling output buffering in Perl

August 7, 2014Posted inPerl
In one of my Perl modules, WWW::BrokenLinks, I wanted to push lots of small log messages to standard output, which I would then redirect to a file. Unfortunately, the combination…