For February I was assigned Test::Mini::Unit [https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Test-Mini-Unit/lib/Test/Mini/Unit.pod] which provides extra declarative sugar for Test::Mini [https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Mini]. When I first installed Test::Mini::Unit I had a test failure and I thought the month was going to be over quickly. But, as it turned out, the...
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I decided to participate in the 2015 CPAN Pull Request Challenge [http://neilb.org/2014/11/29/pr-challenge-2015.html]. I have used perl for 15 years and have not contributed much back to the wonderful Perl community in that time. I see this as the perfect opportunity to rub the shoulders of the giants I have been standing on all these years....
My domain registrar did a very sneaky thing and sent me a discount code for .ninja domains. I impulse bought doyleyoung.ninja [http://doyleyoung.ninja/] and for a while I wasn't sure what to do with it. I decided to do an all grey scale site with a time line that documents my life as a lover of technology. In keeping with...
I got stuck with the task of extracting a large number of text strings from an old DOS program. At first I wasn't worried at all, but my optimism quickly faded when the .exe would not execute on any modern Windows installation. I followed a number of guides for compatibility mode but nothing I tried resulted in success. I decided to try...
I have been experimenting with Spring Boot [http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/] the last couple days and I made a very small extension to my first test [https://doyleyoung.net/spring-boot/] of the framework. After reading a getting started guide [https://spring.io/guides/gs/spring-boot/] I discovered something else amazing about this project. I added the following class to my test...