From an idea to CPAN

From an idea to CPAN

By Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ (‎daxim‎) from Vienna.pm
Date: Friday, 7 November 2008 15:25
Duration: 40 minutes
Target audience: Beginner
Language: English

In this talk full of practical advice I take a real-life Perl program and walk through how to polish it into a beautiful module ready for CPAN. I show how a sort-of paint-by-numbers process is not difficult at all, but eases future software maintenance and can improve quality, or at least kwalitee. Topics include how to set up a development environment, how to make code testable that was not written with testing in mind, and which traps to avoid.