I completely refactored EventQueue so that it oculd have Handlers. What this means is that now I can have a mod_perl, mod_perl2 and cgi handler and I can move the Static view to be a handler because that's what it essentially is. The Handler is responsible for taking the environment and splitting it into things EventQueue needs such as the path ( Read more... )

Mariachi has scaling issues caused by the fact that it doesn't arbitarily break stuff up over month boundries because, well, threads don't stop just because it's the end of the month. That plus threading meant that it slowed to a crawl around the $n thousand messages mark, even when adding messages incrementally. This is sub-optimal.

A while back ( 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... )

... which had a tiny but significant bug to do with running under tests.

Richard Clamp diagnosed a problem as being due to the fact that we exclude anything not from blib if there was blib.pm is in %INC.

my @SEARCHDIR = exists $INC{"blib.pm"} ? grep {/blib/} @INC : @INC;
Of course if the module being tested used another module that used ( Read more... )

Will hit CPAN sometime, err, real soon now. It's done. Apart from the Todo plugin because I really just couldn't be bothered. All I need to do is package various bit seperately and feed some patches back to Tom.

It features a pretty nifty brane slurper that extracts stuff from an infobot db and turns it into the form we expect.

Once the modules ( Read more... )

On Wednesday, laden with a massive hangover and a thorny problem at work that had been bothering me for a week I started having a look at Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable and started hacking together a framework and a TODO list plus some exploratory code.

Now, a couple of days and a few quiet evenings later I have 2000 lines of code which SLOCCount ( Read more... )