Mark Overmeer

The previous 17 years, I published over 1000 distributions for 65 modules to CPAN. Some modules saw over 100 versions, because my workflow was: release often. This works very well when you work alone and regularly with your modules. Recently, my needs shifted a little. There are some (minor) advantages to use GIT. And once that transfer is made, the step to GitHub is made. Everyone has his/her own way of releasing, with tricks to improve the process. I will demonstrate how my process works and how I changed my workflow. It will demonstrate how I load my whole history into git and github with little effort.

Recently, I released Log::Report::Template, which extends Template Toolkit with a simple way to use translations. The (gnu) gettext translation infrastructure, where translations are organized via PO-files, is implemented by various perl modules. They do all extend the original (printf) formatted strings in some way or the other. Log::Report has extended the power of the translatable message ids much further than other modules, also adding features specific for generating HTML.

Access to stand-alone (Apache) Solr servers: a Lucene based full text search engine daemon. I show how I use it to index emails, how to convert them to searchable documents.

"POSIX" stands for "Portable Operating System Interface". The POSIX module in "Perl core" is ancient, full of quirks and historical mistakes. However, for that same reason, it will not get fixed. The new "POSIX::1003" (living on CPAN) tries to be an alternative: same functionality (and more), more consistent, and documented by function group.