{"id":11541,"date":"2015-06-08T21:14:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T21:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/?p=11541"},"modified":"2015-06-08T21:14:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T21:14:41","slug":"announcing-crypthsxkpasswd-beta-2-now-with-more-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2015\/06\/08\/announcing-crypthsxkpasswd-beta-2-now-with-more-command-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing <code>Crypt::HSXKPasswd<\/code> Beta 2 &#8211; now with more command-line!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I released what I hope will be the last beta release <code>Crypt::HSXKPasswd<\/code> before the first release to CPAN. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bbusschots\/xkpasswd.pm\/releases\/tag\/v3.2.1\" target=\"_blank\">download it from the project&#8217;s GitHub page<\/a> (reminder, you can get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2015\/05\/28\/installing-the-crypthsxkpasswd-betas\/\" target=\"_blank\">installation instructions for the beta releases here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The head-line change is the addition of a bundled command line app, bringing all the power of <code>Crypt::HSXKPasswd<\/code> to the terminal, shell scripts, and indeed programs and scripts written in any language with the ability to shell out.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of lines of code the biggest change is a complete re-write of all data validation code. The project now contains a custom type library which exactly defines what it means to be a word, letter, symbol, symbol alphabet etc.. This has made the code much more robust, and has make it a lot easier to write consistent documentation. The type library is written using <code>Type::Tiny<\/code>, and all the custom type definitions contain customised validation error message functions to give users much more helpful feedback.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Allison Sheridan from the NosillaCast Mac Podcast<\/a>, the warnings and error messages issued by the module have also become a lot more human-friendly.<\/p>\n<p>The test suite has also been greatly expanded, making it easier to find and fix bugs going forward.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an interest in this module, please install the beta and report any problems you find by <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bbusschots\/xkpasswd.pm\/issues\" target=\"_blank\">opening issues on the project&#8217;s GitHub page<\/a>. Or better still if you&#8217;re a developer, fixing the bug and sending me a pull request \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I&#8217;m looking for help in the following areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Native German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese speakers to sanitise the dictionary files for those languages, leaving only a few thousand common words &#8211; these dictionary files are simply too big at the moment, and they must be full of really obscure words to be this large!<\/li>\n<li>People who are good at technical writing to help me give the documentation some spit and polish. I think all the relevant information is there, and I have run it all though a spell checker, but it could definitely do with some TLC from a copy editor!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, and finally finally, if you find this module useful, please consider donating with the button below &#8211; I have literally put hundreds of hours into this code in the last few months, and given it all away for free.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><!-- Begin PayPal Donations by https:\/\/www.tipsandtricks-hq.com\/paypal-donations-widgets-plugin -->\n\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\">\n    <div class=\"paypal-donations\">\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_donations\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"bn\" value=\"TipsandTricks_SP\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"business\" value=\"bart@bartificer.net\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"item_name\" value=\"XKPasswd\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"item_number\" value=\"XKPasswd\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"rm\" value=\"0\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"EUR\" \/>\n        <input type=\"image\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donate_LG.gif\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" \/>\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n<\/form>\n<!-- End PayPal Donations -->\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-weight:bold;font-size:16pt\">*<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bbusschots\/xkpasswd.pm\/releases\" title=\"XKPasswd.pm GitHub Releases\" target=\"_blank\">Download Beta 2 of <code>Crypt::HSXKPasswd<\/code> via GitHub<\/a>*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I released what I hope will be the last beta release Crypt::HSXKPasswd before the first release to CPAN. You can download it from the project&#8217;s GitHub page (reminder, you can get installation instructions for the beta releases here). The head-line change is the addition of a bundled command line app, bringing all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,17,16],"tags":[406,410,267,457],"series":[],"class_list":["post-11541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-tech","category-security","category-programming","tag-commandline","tag-hsxkpasswd","tag-perl","tag-software-release"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-309","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11542,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541\/revisions\/11542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11541"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=11541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}