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Test::Class::Sugar 0.3

over 2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
tap tap... Is this thing on? So, I recently noticed that Test::Class 0.33 got released, which means that Test::Class::Sugar no longer needs to depend...

Class decomposition and a handy delegation pattern

over 2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
There’s something satisfying about reaching the point when you can’t decompose an object any further and all your methods are tiny and do one thing...

Class decomposition and a handy delegation pattern

~2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
There’s something satisfying about reaching the point when you can’t decompose an object any further and all your methods are tiny and do one thing...

Twice now

~2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
In Ruby, when you’re doing division on integers, things can get a little counter intuitive. For instance, 6/4 is obviously 1. At least, it is until you...

Falling out of love with a language

almost 2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
So, Giles Bowkett asked me on facebook “Why Perl?”. This is the long answer. I’m a Perl hacker. I have been for around 16 years now. Around 5...

Supporting the good guys

almost 2 years ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
Graeme (@mathie) Matthieson is one of the good guys. He’s also one of the people behind the Scottish Ruby Conference (né Scotland on Rails). I spent...

The Perils of RFSI

over 1 year ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
If you saw me at YACP::NA or you follow me on Twitter, you'll know that I've been waylaid by Repetitive Strain Injury, so I'm going to be cutting back...

An evening of open source entertainment

over 1 year ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
Over on Twitter, Allison Randal said: Open source isn't just a licensing/business strategy, it's a better way of producing software and a better...

Calling any Xkb gurus

over 1 year ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
Right, I've about had it up to here with the Xkb documentation, and with the layout of my shiny new Kinesis Advantage Keyboard. The cursor keys on the...

Repertoire Project: The Pretty Ploughboy

over 1 year ago by Piers Cawley on Just A Summary :.
The Pretty Ploughboy by pdcawley...