3 posts tagged “development”
Those in the perl community should know the name. Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (vox: miyagawa) is a very prolific perl author, and has produced some really great stuff.
The one that currently has my fascination is Plagger. Yesterday I had a an idea to combine the RSS feeds at work, with another couple convenience utilities via Jabber. After diving into POE::Component::Jabber I remembered Plagger, and how most of the hard work is already done for me. Unfortunately, there was no notification engine for Jabber. No matter, I took a gander at the IRC notification scripts (plagger-ircbot and Plagger::Notify::IRC) and realized that it is trivial to convert these over to notification over XMPP.
After about 45 minutes of fiddling, I have my very own "J. Shirley Bot" along with Plagger::Notify::Jabber::XMPP and plagger-jabberbot. I'll be sending them towards Miyagawa for hopeful inclusion soon. The only thing that I still have open in my head is how to handle who gets notified. I don't want to add just anybody who is on the buddy list (and gets a packet) because that isn't easily controlled. But maintaining a separate notification list is somewhat of a pain... I'll figure this out, and wrap it up.
Decisions, decisions! Either way, I'm very happy. Huge plug for Plagger being awesome, and many props to Miyagawa.
Today I just pushed a new package to CPAN that introduces a "Graphics" helper. The general idea of the package is to install into any Catalyst application a batch of ready-made images that are useful. The only thing it currently has is an AJAX activity indicator, but I'm currently seeking other images to include.
If you have any ideas for new images to be included in this package, please let me know! I'm "jshirley" on IRC, or you can comment here and my email is always open.
Keep an eye out for some screencasts, coming soon!
As I was playing around, I discovered a neat side effect of element wrapping and CSS.
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A very easy technique to get different text-decoration colors and other effects (think of a:hover). Any inline element that modifies the color will modify the text color, but not the text decoration color. I'm still trying to come up with some really good usage for design, and likely will fail. Feel free to come up with something brilliant in my absence.<a style="color: #369;">
<strong style="color: #720003;">I like complimentary colors!</strong>
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