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UserAgent Debugging Made Easy
Related articles: Observing Network Traffic with LWP::ConsoleLogger::Everywhere #The Problem Earlier today I saw a recent blog post from Gabor Szabo. In it, he shows a very concise way to handle Basic Authentication using LWP::UserAgent. Now, what if you had a problem running the script? How might you go about …
Improving libwww-perl
You may have noticed that WWW::Mechanize has seen some releases over the last couple of months. No big, breaking changes, but bugs have been fixed and enhancements have been shipped. This module is part of the libwww-perl ecosystem and also a part of the libwww-perl GitHub organization, to which I now also belong. I …
Announcing meta::hack
Every so often, someone asks if they can donate money to MetaCPAN. I usually direct them to CPAN Testers, since (due to our generous hosting sponsors) we’ve generally not had a need for money. You can probably see where I’m going with this. Times have changed. We’re no longer turning financial …
Getting to Travis and GitHub Pages Quickly
Disclaimer: I’m sure this functionality exists elsewhere, but this was a fun little thing for me to work on. Also, you’ll need a minimum of git 2.7 for this to work.
Don’t Forget about URI::Heuristic
Imagine you’ve got some user input that is supposed to be a valid URL, but it’s user input, so you can’t be sure of anything. It’s not very consistent data, so you at least make sure to prepend a default scheme to it. It’s a fairly common case. Sometimes I see it solved this way:
How to Get a CPAN Module Download URL
Every so often you find yourself requiring the download URL for a CPAN module. You can use the MetaCPAN API to do this quite easily, but depending on your use case, you may not be able to do this in a single query. Well, that’s actually not entirely true. Now that we have v1 of the MetaCPAN API deployed, you can …
Easy Perl OAuth Integration with Runkeeper and Spotify
I’ve been tooling around with a fun little app that I’m building on evenings and weekends. As part of that work I figured I’d let users authenticate via Runkeeper. Luckily Runkeeper uses OAuth2 and it’s all pretty easy to get going with. I’ve published my very small contribution as …
How I Spent My Perl QA Hackathon v2016 (Rugby)
#Before I start, I’d like to thank our sponsors This year I once again had the pleasure of attending my 4th Perl QA Hackathon. Before I get into any details, I’d like to thank the organizers: Neil Bowers, Barbie and JJ Allen. They did a fantastic job. It was a very well organized event and really a lot of …
Adding History to fpp (Facebook PathPicker)
I’ve been a fan of fpp (Facebook PathPicker) since I first heard about it. I had long been looking for something like this and had even considered writing it myself. Fortunately someone else spared me the work and did a much better job than I would have.