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I did a complete rewrite of my PodCMS in the last two days (the original version took about two weeks to write). The new one is using Catalyst as a framework. The code was reduced to less than a third of the original one and is much more maintainable and clean now.

If you're interested in using it you can simply use the my darcs repository:

darcs get http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~rafl/PodCMS/

That checks out the most PodCMS code. If you don't want to install all requirements from CPAN you can also do

darcs get http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~rafl/PodCMS/ext

inside the checkout path to get all extensions that are needed to run PodCMS.

After checking everything out you can start over adapting the style to your needs by editing root/base/. New content can be added by creating new files in root/data, new blog entries are made by adding files to root/blog. To get some examples you can check out my personal blog entries and content:

darcs get http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~rafl/PodCMS/root/blog
darcs get http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~rafl/PodCMS/root/data

The next goal for PodCMS is an RSS view as well as a funny menu that only exposes subitems for the currently selected item.

There were no posts for quite a while. Therefor I'll now summarize some things.

I wrote a new Perl module called Net::Jabber::Loudmouth which binds libloudmouth to perl. It's already available on CPAN. There also seems to be a project using it. It's somehow asterisk related, but I don't know exactly what it does.

I maintain a lot of new modules in Debian now. Mainly Perl packages that were orphaned, but also some new ones, mainly needed for the pugs pachage, as well as viruskiller, an SDL based game, and LMMS, which I previously wrote about.

There has been much progress on the pugs Debian package. It's in the shape to be uploaded to unstable soon. We only need to wait for libtest-tap-*-perl, which is currently in the NEW queue to be approved and for ghc6 to be on version 6.4-4.1 on all architectures. Only m68k seems to be missing by now.

The Debian Packages for Catalyst are also officially in Debian now. They are maintained by the Debian Catalyst Group.

I also quit my last job in favour of a new one at the University of Chemnitz, where I can code Perl all the time. :-)

As you probably already know I were in Helsinky from the 10th to the 17th of july to visit the 5th Debconf. It was my first Debconf at all, but it was really productive.

For example we have now Debian Packages for Catalyst in the official archive that will be comaintained by Jaldhar H. Vyas, Krzysztof Krzyzaniak and me.

Beside that there is now also a pugs package in a shape that's good enough to be uploaded to the archive. We'll only need to wait for ghc6 to use libgmp3c2 before we can do that.

But it wasn't only productive at all - we had a lot of fun as well! For example while playing the Debian Board game (which is pretty close to monopoly) or while dancing at the first Linux Ball in world history.

I'm already very sure that I'll be in Mexico next year as well. :-)

02:13 < rafl> So is there any project admin available at the moment?
              It would be nice to add the user rafl to the commiters list.
02:14 < obra> rafl: hold
02:16 < obra> rafl: done
02:16 < rafl> obra: Thanks.

Well, so I just became a member of the Pugs project. I mainly intend to fix the Debian package which is quite broken at the moment.

Some days ago my laptop, an iBook G4, which wasn't even one and a half year old, croaked. Due the fact that I wanted to have a working laptop again as soon as possible I decided to buy a new one and ordered an IBM ThinkPad X41.

It's smaller, less weighty and a much smarter than the old iBook. Well, it was a bit tricky to get Debian installed because the debian-installer doesn't support the hardware completely, but with using the Ubuntu netboot image it was easy to bootstrap a pure Debian system.

The hardware is well supported by the Linux kernel. Only suspend doesn't work well at the moment. It's going to sleep well, but after waking up some SCSI errors occur. This is because SATA suspend is currently broken, but that fill be fixed with one of the next versions, so I'll be patient.