The Problem We work on various project for different customers. Sometimes we end up with some code that we'd like to reuse in several projects (let's call this "private libs"), but cannot release on CPAN (mostly because it's very specific to some internal problem and I'd have a bad feeling wasting community resources). We are using Carton to ...
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By the power vested in me by the laziness of the other Vienna.pm members, I hereby declare the following dates for Vienna.pm TechSocialMeetings: Mon, 2017-01-16 @ validad Tue, 2017-02-21 Wed, 2017-03-22 Thu, 2017-04-20 Fri, 2017-05-19 Mon, 2017-06-19 Tue, 2017-09-19 Wed, 2017-10-18 Thu, 2017-11-16 Fri, 2017-12-22 Each meeting will start at ...
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Kate Tempest eröffnet mit einem der besten Lieder dieses Jahres, wenn auch nicht sehr zuversichtlich: Europe is Lost (1), "America lost, London lost .. here in the land where nobody gives a fuck". Common schreibt einen Letter to the Free (2) hoffend auf Freedom, aber weil "now you wanna trump me" werden wohl noch länger "won't be long" singen ...
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In the last few days I extracted some code buried in our interal Tools-repo into a distinct distribution. I added some tests and documentation, and a few hours ago Plack::Middleware::PrettyException hit CPAN. Plack::Middleware::PrettyException allows you to use exceptions in your models (and also controllers, but they should be kept slim!) and ...
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It seems I'm too dumb for handling raw TCP. Please, dear Internet, teach me what I'm doing wrong! What I'm trying to do I want to send some data to Telegraf via TCP. So I open a socket and send the data. All is well, until Telegraf is restarted, thus losing the connection to the sending script. So I want to catch the lost connection, reconnect, ...
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