To help people who upload modules to CPAN lots of people test them. I have been doing this for while following instructions on the CPAN Testers Wiki. However the automation instructions are very specific to dave's set up. So I wrote my own scripts.

cpantest.sh is my script which fires off cpan for the releases I'm testing. autocpantest automates the testing of recent modules. Its not all automated, I still have to approve the sending of failure reports. The script is quite frankly quite bad and would probably be better as some perl. Perhaps when I've taught myself some I might rewrite it.

With all this in place I should start shooting up the leaderboard

Zimki is now dead. So I had to move my blog to something else. After much thought I have moved it back to my own colo using Chronicle as the blogging software.

Of course this may mean some of you get a load of repeat entries. Sorry

With chronicle I made my own theme. I also improved the way they do stuff. It has always baffled me that people use templating engines yet dont make use of includes for site furniture like the header, footer and sidebar. So I added these

I've had a svn repo for a while. Today I installed SVN::Web which gives a useful web interface to it. For example you can see other revisions than the current one. My Repository via SVN::Web.

One reason why i did this is that it gives a RSS feed of the revision log. This means I can use RSS FWD to get commit messages in my email without having to mess with commit hooks.