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The start of a project is much more fun than the end… Which is why my New Years Resolution is to finish some of my half-baked projects. These are…

A new version of WebService::TVDB has been released to the CPAN. It features a number of enhancements all of which were initially implemented by Tim De Pauw:

This week I pushed out a new version of mp4meta, my script to apply iTunes style metadata to a video (see my introduction post for information on what mp4meta does).

Tonight I pushed out 1.1.2 of my Ruby DuckDuckGo library. It contains a fix for parsing URIs that contain spaces in them and are unescpaed, causing an InvalidURIError. Thanks to Chris Nicola for providing the fix.

Every line of code you write has a cost. It takes time to write it, it takes time to update it, and it takes time to read and understand it. Thus it follows that the benefit derived must be greater than the cost to make it. In the case of over-testing, that’s by definition not the case.

I’m definitely guilty of this, and its a hard habit to break.

I actually overheard this somewhere (won’t say where).

We need to rename Web 2.0 to HTML5. Anonymous

Note: This module is now called WebService::TVDB, as it’s a more appropriate namespace. Net::TVDB will be removed from the CPAN.

It was unclear at first how best to give something back to Perl. Fortunately there was more than one way to do it.

Recently I have been using Buildbot for continuous integration for a number of my open source projects, including some Dist::Zilla based Perl projects (see http://ci.arjones.co.uk/).

I wanted a script to dump the entire contents of my KinoSearch1 index into a flat file. Turns out this was pretty easy by using the KinoSearch1::Index::IndexReader.