Some time ago I changed my title to Product Manager. For many years I have worked as a developer and later team-lead for a development team, so this was an interesting change. Working as a team-lead had slowly removed me from actual day to day coding, doing more and more…

I have recently released the Perl distribution Test::Timer 2.09, the last release I blogged about was 2.00 — a lot has happened in regard to stabilisation. Attempts at making some minor improvements resulted in tests failing and a long road to get things stable again. 2.09 is a culmination of…

I have been using and creating open source software for a long time, I am however of the opinion that I never really have contributed anything of significance. …

Hacktoberfest 2017 is over. This is the second year I participate. The event unfortunately collided with two conferences and a serious deadline at work, so I was not able to contribute as much as I would have liked to. …

I have just attended my first ever DockerCon, I was so lucky, the conference was taking place in my hometown — Copenhagen. It was quite awesome, I have recently attended GOTO Copenhagen at the same venue, but DockerCon was a lot bigger, with more many tracks, sessions, exhibitors and of…

With GitHub’s recent promotion of their topics and discoverability of open source repositories via GitHub Explore — it was with some disappointment I was unable to spot Perl. …

Following some of all the cool developers on twitter, GitHub, blogs etc. I fell over EditorConfig. The homepage of the project boldly stated: EditorConfig helps developers define and maintain consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs. The EditorConfig project consists of a file format for defining coding styles and…

The Copenhagen edition of the GOTO conference have come to an end. I was able to attend 2 of the 3 days scheduled. I decided beforehand not to sign up for any tutorials since I new it would be difficult to take so much time away from work assignments. As…

Received some feedback on release 1.00 of Test::Timer, this has resulted in further improvements and release 2.00. The diagnostics of failing tests using Test::Timer, now also presents the actual execution time observed. Next goal of the next feature release, is to handle higher resolution than seconds. In the mean time a release with improved documentation is planned to go out. Until next Timer — release, take care