Tag Archives: Modules

Day 18 – Hallo, Wêreld!

by habere-et-dispertire The first elf language is the sharing of emotions. Next comes their mother tongue. When elves start speaking their first programming language, then they are already onto their third language! Santa imagines raku draws inspiration from many principles of Unix philosophy In particular, localization of raku plays into the robustness principle. When writingContinue reading “Day 18 – Hallo, Wêreld!”

Day 17 – An issue with evaluation

Lizzybel was walking the corridors of North Pole Central when Steve, the Physics Elf, came up to her. “Have you seen my issue on this very nice module of yours?”, he asked. “Oof, I guess I must have missed that, sorry!”, said Lizzybel, while thinking to herself “I really should look more at my modulesContinue reading “Day 17 – An issue with evaluation”

Day 16 – Melian and the Helpers of Evergreen

by Sawyer X Operation Evergreen began quietly that winter. Santa had announced it as a workshop-wide initiative to improve the speed and efficiency of analytics across every team (logs, metrics, scheduling, routing, and storage). The elves who maintained the Workshop’s growing systems found themselves gathered around long benches, examining slow queries, performance charts, and theContinue reading “Day 16 – Melian and the Helpers of Evergreen”

Day 23 – Santa’s Print Shop

A lead-free area Elf Nebecaneezer (‘Neb’) was welcoming some young new workers to his domain and doing what old folks like to do: pontificate. (His grandchildren politely, but behind his back, call it “bloviating.”) “In the old days, we used hand-set lead type, then gradually used ever-more-modern methods; now we prepare the content in PDFContinue reading “Day 23 – Santa’s Print Shop”

Day 22 – Wrapping a Christmas Present

A few months back In the smoke-filled (virtual) room of the council of the high (from the smoke) elves, the wizened textualist Geoff, said “All of my stuff is in boxes and containers.” Empty shelves behind him indicated he was moving house. “When you have a complex module,” Geoff continued, “and its difficult to describeContinue reading “Day 22 – Wrapping a Christmas Present”

Day 19 – Wrapping Scripts

This is a cross post of https://dev.to/patrickbkr/better-wrapper-scripts-158j When creating an application in Raku one will at one point typically hit the issue that the application can only be started by calling raku and passing a few arguments. The usual solution is to write a small wrapper shell script on POSIX and a bat script onContinue reading “Day 19 – Wrapping Scripts”

Day 15 – Matching Maps

Lizzybel was again walking through the corridors of North Pole Grand Central and was stopped by Nanunanu, one of the IT elves, with a face a little paler than usual. “So what is the problem?” Lizzybel asked. Nanunanu took a deep breath and started: “…so we have built this sorta in-memory database in a RakuContinue reading “Day 15 – Matching Maps”

Day 14 – Playing around with the new documentation components

After living with RakuDoc v2 for over a year, some things become normal that surprise others when I explain them. Here are a few things I do when documenting my software. 1. Shoving stuff down the file There are a couple of items needed in a changing document that should be easily managed, probably atContinue reading “Day 14 – Playing around with the new documentation components”

Day 13 – Content Storage For Raku Distributions

The S22 Content Storage speculation describes how Raku distributions could be stored and accessed by a (possibly federated) Raku ecosystem. The content-storage repository contains an implementation of that speculation, implemented using the Cro framework. This blog post gives a quick overview of the functionalities that are provided by the web-service that is provided by the content-storageContinue reading “Day 13 – Content Storage For Raku Distributions”