Little known fact - Module::Pluggable grew out of an article I was writing for Perl.com about why some code needn't go into modules and should just be copied and pasted. Of course now it's a burgeoning monstrosity because it fell foul of feature creep and ... euuch. It's horrible.

Fortunately Mark Fowler has stepped up and, in the quest to make ( Read more... )

Apparently I'm the author or co-author of several of the most dependency heavy modules on CPAN. And you know what? I'm fine with that. Some people moan about tests failing but I say that's a good thing - I want to see that the tests fail at install time than just assume they work and then not be able to work out why the app isn't working after I've ( Read more... )