I have been having ideas (like the shameless hussy that I am) about Massively Multiplayer games. Such games often spend a disproportionate amount of time working round hackers who automate tasks and hack them game.

Well, that seems a bit silly to me. Embrace the hacking. Make it part of the game. Jos Boumans has a brilliant talk called POE to the ( Read more... )

Graham Gough got in contact to say that Data::ICal::DateTime was barfing on an export of his Palm pilot calendar to .ics and saying

Couldn't find end *or* duration ( Read more... )

Everything I wanted to do with EventQueue is done. Except the UI. As previously mentioned I have all the design skills of a de-oculated swamp donkey and whilst I could hack something up to add and modify events it would look ugly and I'd actually like this to success and I think that's far more likely if it's a slick experience right from the get ( Read more... )

Leon decided that what was needed was new Perl debugger and Lo! Devel::ebug was born. A teensy bit hacky but much better than perl5db.pl was. It claimed to be a "a simple, extensible Perl debugger" but, to be honest, it wasn't very extensible and, given my love of plugins I decided to hack in plugins using, what else, Module::Pluggable.

This ( Read more... )