cpanvote is live: Using the metacpan API, this application lets you vote for a module on CPAN. It’s a pretty way to make a live survey about what is really alive on the CPAN and to point out what is “deprecated”. The mix between the rating and the CPAN’s graphs could be a big improvement of the current CPAN quality ;)

fmlr: fmlr is a new project by the prolific zed shaw. This a follow up to the discussion he started here and that generated lot of comment on hackernews

Hash URIs: Jeni wrote a very good review about Hash URIs. It is an important question today for everyone retrieving web data as more and more websites use Javascript to display content. I wonder how our crawler would react if I launched it on this kind of experiment. By the way, Jeni’s recommandation for a good practice is full of common sense but the problem remains that it’s just a recommendation :|

Monitoring is for ops what testing is for dev: Good article on why monitoring and graphing is important. At work, when we deploy new code, our first reflex is now to jump on the monitoring system and watch if anything goes wrong. After tests (unit, functional, staging), it’s now one of our most important tool.