While researching a very weird bug0 in Koha I had to figure out a way chop a string to a specific maximum length. In bytes and not in characters, because in that case the horrible format USMARC is used, whose spec starts with two red flags: It's from January 2000, and it's an "implementation of the American national standard", so you can bet that ...
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I was invited to talk about a nice Perl code nugget at the new Code Nugget Meetup.
I decided to show the old but still nice Schwartzian Transform:
Slides
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At the Koha Hackfest I had several discussions with various colleagues about how to improve the way plugins and hooks are implemented in Koha. I have worked with and implemented various different systems in my ~25 years of Perl, so I have some opinions on this topic.
What are Hooks and Plugins?
When you have some generic piece of code (eg a ...
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Last week we (aka HKS3) attended the Koha Hackfest in Marseille, hosted by BibLibre. The hackfest is a yearly meeting of Koha developers and other interested parties, taking place since ~10 years in Marseille. For me, it was the first time!
Things I learned (and other notes)
While I still don't like traveling by plane, the route Vienna - ...
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