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Colin's Blog

My blog. Thoughts on programming, being a business owner, freelancing and life in general.

Stupid Moose Questions

By perlDreamer - 1/25/2010 - 1 Replies I have always embodied the perl virtue of laziness. Well, at least I've tried most times. Most times, this is good, since it helps me to write small, well tested code that is easy to maintain. Other times, it's bad, since I've never learned Moose or DBI::Class.

5 days of a git pre-commit hook, lessons learned...

By perlDreamer - 11/5/2009 Our project, WebGUI, a perl-based CMS, has a varied group of developers. Most developers are consultants and contractors who make a living from customizing and developing applications for WebGUI. Some are users who dabble in writing macros and simple sub-applications. A few are purely volunteers.

WebGUI Testing: Skipping the SKIP block

By perlDreamer - 10/31/2009 After reading Perl Testing, A Developer's Notebook, I started putting this into all the WebGUI tests:

Client side caching costs me cash.

By perlDreamer - 10/1/2009 - 1 Replies Working on a perl-based CMS, I get bitten by client-side caching a lot.

Saving those precious finger joints, a new method in WebGUI will assuage your Laziness.

By perlDreamer - 9/26/2009 - 1 Replies When I was in graduate school, I interned at Hewlett Packard.

100% Test coverage != no bugs

By perlDreamer - 7/11/2009 In documentation and lectures and books I've read that 100% test coverage does not mean that your code is bug-free.

Let them eat POD!

By perlDreamer - 7/7/2009 - 1 Replies I'm definitely not your average perl programmer.

Janitorial test work

By perlDreamer - 5/19/2009 My blog posts seem to be running in the same vein.

More test cleaning up

By perlDreamer - 5/9/2009 A few weeks ago, I wrote about how there were now built-in ways to clean up WebGUI objects created for testing.

Automatically building forms with WebGUI::Crud

By perlDreamer - 4/30/2009 - 1 Replies WebGUI has it's own little ORM module called WebGUI::Crud.

Cleaning up

By perlDreamer - 4/13/2009 Several little tidbits:

WebGUI Network News, issue #1

By perlDreamer - 4/4/2009 - 1 Replies Hot off the keyboard is WebGUI Network News, issue #1.

Chained and Bound.

By perlDreamer - 4/2/2009 Perl allows for chained method calls, if each method returns an object:

Common WebGUI Programming Mistakes

By perlDreamer - 4/2/2009 Last year, at WUC 2008, I did a presentation called Common WebGUI Programming mistakes.

Test::Class for Account modules

By perlDreamer - 3/26/2009 - 2 Replies I got my start in WebGUI volunteering.

Office news

By perlDreamer - 3/24/2009 - 1 Replies

The Kuskie family has been working hard on building out the office.

Office 2009

By perlDreamer - 3/14/2009 No, I haven't gone off the deep end by starting to use Microsoft Office, this is about my office.

The month flies by

By perlDreamer - 2/15/2009 And what a month it was.