As most developers in the last few weeks, I had to implement some GDPR related features. This was one of the more interesting ones.. Once or twice per month we send a subset of our user spam information about third party products. As this is a German project, data protection laws are very strict (long before GDPR), and we made very sure to only ...
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Being back in Vienna and having caught up one some (a lot) missed sleep, I can finally clean up my notes of the 20th(!) German Perl Workshop in Gummersbach from 4th to 6th April 2018. I did one regular talk, Frameworkless Async API, and also an improv performance about Moose based on davorg's great slide set to replace a canceled Moose intro ...
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As a side project, I'm currently working on yet another disqus clone. To make it more fun, I pack a lot of different functionality into one single process using IO::Async to handle the various tasks. Instead of using a web framework, I use raw Moose classes and PSGI. Slides: Slides for the 20th German Perl Workshop in ...
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While testing CtrlO::Crypt::XkcdPassword, I wanted to test how the code behaves in a forked environment. This is quite common, as most Perl web setups are based on a pre-forking server, i.e. a parent process that preloads and setups the app and then forks a few child process to actually handle the incoming requests. But if you connect to some ...
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Today at the office I needed to add a small change to a module we're using to count stats for HTTP requests. Instead of just adding a small feature, I finally ripped the module out of our darkpan and published it as Plack::Middleware::StatsPerRequest as my 40th CPAN module on my 42nd birthday. As I was in a bit of a rush, I did not add any tests ...
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