Cleaning the CPAN cage: January 2015
In the first installment of my participation in the CPAN Pull Request Challenge I was assigned the module XML::NamespaceSupport. The module enables one to pr...
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Module clean up ideas for the CPAN Pull Request Challenge
At the end of 2014 I signed up for the CPAN Pull Request Challenge; a brilliant idea of Neil Bower’s to clean up CPAN modules in need of a bit of “tender lov...
Installing MinGW doesn’t suck anymore
Recently a PhD student at the institute where I work wanted to use make and gfortran on a Windows box without having to install Cygwin in order to compile a ...
Windows Git Installation
A version control system is fundamental to the work of anyone developing software, whether it be scientific software or not. This is one of the fundamental ...
Test suite profiling
Recently at $work I found that our test suite was taking longer and longer to run and had begun to slow down development. A long-running test suite smells of...