Programming

Emacs as a perl IDE II

Having polled the assorted perlish hiveminds of the BBC, the London perlmongers and Reddit, I got a really good selection of responses. So, from Reddit: Put “perl -cw” into flymake so you can see syntax errors right away. Even more immediately than trying to compile? Could be useful. From London.pm: Dot mode attempts to emulate [...]


Using emacs as a perl IDE

Using emacs as a perl IDE

I admit, I’m an emacs philistine. I use it as a text editor and when I’ve got a machine or linux VM that I’m going to be using, I’ll set up “cperl-mode” with syntax colouring. I don’t even bother even creating a tags file to be able to bounce around files from the use of [...]


Installing Maven on a fresh RedHat/Centos 5.5…

This one had me a bit baffled but the recipe turned out to be easy once you know which chickens to sacrifice in which order. So: Add the jpackage info into /etc/yum.repos.d: http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage50.repo Fix a dependency problem: rpm -Uvh http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/linux/centos/images/jpackage-utils-compat-el5-0.0.1-1.noarch.rpm Then yum update and then: yum install maven2 400 updates later, you’re in business! # [...]


2 x Perl and Perl/PHP freelance gigs

Posting here so I can twit a link! I’ve got a shiny new CTO gig and I need some help with one of my existing contracts. So here are the descriptions: Perl Developer, London – assist with/take over maintenance of existing project I’m looking for a freelance perl developer to assist with and potentially take [...]


Hudson and Selenium – Experiences

Tonight I gave a talk at the London Perlmongers about my experiences rolling out Selenium and Hudson at Photobox. PDF of the slides here: Hudson and Selenium You’ll have to imaging the handwaving and irrelevant asides. Any questions? Related Posts:Hudson and SeleniumUsing emacs as a perl IDE2 x Perl and Perl/PHP freelance gigsGeeks in Taipei


Hudson and Selenium

Sorry, geek day job alert. I have a baby Hudson and Selenium setup here. I’ve inherited a very nasty test harness that our testers are familiar with and can build tests for but it currently runs interactively on Windows and will be a ‘mare to port and enhance. I have a vision of a world [...]