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Ruby Quiz – Port a Library (#64)

Kellan — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:17:00 +0000

Excellent. Lack of libraries is Ruby’s weakness. Except that it already has plenty of quick, one-off, scattered, unevenly documented libraries, what it needs is CPAN. (and perlnewmod, and modules@perl.org)

http://www.rubyquiz.com/quiz64.html

CPAN: Reinventing the wheel since 1995

Kellan — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:51:00 +0000

Wow, I missed CPAN’s 10th birthday. CPAN is amazing, a community unmatched in any language.

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/25/127229&tid=32&tid=42

I’ve revived the CPAN Recent uploads RSS feed.

Kellan — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 23:56:28 +0000

Sorry for the outages and changed url.

http://laughingmeme.org/feed/cpan_recent.rdf

CPAN & Reputation

Kellan — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 00:55:00 +0000

A few days of reading my scraped CPAN RSS feed, made me realize what an integral part of CPAN the PAUSE ids are. With so many…questionable…modules being uploaded it really helps to know who is what. I think this is one of the (many) examples where the CPAN clones fail to learn from CPAN’s success. So yeah, added the PAUSE ID to the feed.

update: I’ve moved the RSS feed (for the last time for foreseeable future) to CPAN recent module releases.

I Want I Want

Kellan — Tue, 18 Feb 2003 18:49:00 +0000

Note to Self: Besides a better CPAN RSS feed, and better RSS feeds for lists, I also want an RSS feed for WSWS and exploding dog (I never remember to check them)

CPAN’s RSS sucks

Kellan — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:02:00 +0000

Why does CPAN’s RSS feed suck so much?

It only lists the module name, and the link, even though the recent uploads page, also lists a one line description. Not only would it be trivial to include the one line description, almost every module on CPAN has all that cool POD stuff that would make it trivial to include a more detailed description (hint: the contents of =head1 DESCRIPTION), plus why not stick the HTML rendering of the full pod into ? (its looks like with version 2.0 the content module lost the ability to specify a format, or we could simply stick the raw pod in, and see what happens)

And the file is named “recent.rdf”, even though its RSS 0.91, hell they might be opening themselves up for a libel suit from Userland if the W3C doesn’t get them first.

Just starting to catch up from a weekend without Straw. (is anyone else alarmed that an RSS aggregator is the 2nd Google result for “straw”?)

update: I’m maintaining a scraped CPAN RSS feed.