I am happy to announce that logicLAB (finally) has enrolled as a registered iPhone Developer Company with Apple.

The first part of the iPhone road map is based on simple prototypes and applications being developed as part of the learning process of iPhone development and it’s related tools and techniques. It is my goal to release relevant parts and applications as Open Source as part of this process.

In addition to getting iPhone development as an integral part of our development capabilities, It is my hope to take this to a higher level in collaboration with new and existing clients extending logicLAB’s portfolio slowly.

Initial discussion with a new client have already taken place and I am in the process of creating a mock-up of the proposed project.

More information will follow on logicLAB’s venture into iPhone development as this progress.

jonasbn, logicLAB – Copenhagen

logicLAB are again sponsoring the Nordic Perl Workshop. This time the Nordic Perl Workshop 2010 (NPW), to be held in Reykjavik Iceland. The sponsorship is somewhat limited to key chains from a previous event. We do however think it is a good chance to raise some awareness about this upcoming event.

The workshop will held on the first and second of May 2010 and will be organized by a local group, FSFI, which is the Icelandic Society for Digital Freedoms.

The official website in its current form is located at: a href=”http://npw2010.fsfi.is/”>http://npw2010.fsfi.is//a>. A preliminary call for papers is out via this site – more information is expected to follow.

For a more thorough description of the FSFI, please visit: a href=”http://www.fsfi.is/”>http://www.fsfi.is//a> (in Icelandic)

In it unclear whether logicLAB will be represented at the NPW 2010 at this time, please keep an eye on this space for more information.

For about a year we have for using this small Data::FormValidator constraint extension we developed for use with telco a client.

It has finally been release to the CPAN.

The distribution by now contains 3 modules, representing 3 different approaches to validation of Danish phone numbers.

- Business::DK::Phonenumber, is a basic procedural implementation, exporting a validation subroutine.
- Data::FormValidator::Constraints::Business::DK::Phonenumber, is a package to integrate with the marvellous module Data::FormValidator
- Class::Business::DK::Phonenumber, is a object oriented implementation providing a class for handling phonenumber object

In addition to the 3 approaches listed above. The distribution offers:

- Generation of dummy phone numbers, which can be used for testing
- Pretty printing of phone numbers, so phone numbers, can be output and formatted using simple templates

This is the initial public release and it covers pretty much what we expect and set out too solve, ideas for improvements are more than welcome.

Business::DK::Phonenumber is the second open source project from logicLAB, which is developed on our Atlassian Jira Studio solution, so things might change overtime as we get more into using Jira Studio for both closed and open source projects, for now the following resources are available from our Business::DK::Phonenumber project web site (a href=”http://logicLAB.jira.com/browse/BDKPHN”>http://logicLAB.jira.com/browse/BDKPHN/a>):

- Wiki
- SCM, Subversion, readonly
- Bug/Issue tracking, requires account for now, but we are working on that

Business::DK::Phonenumber is distributed under the Artistic License and can be downloaded from your local CPAN mirror or via: search.cpan.org (a href=”http://search.cpan.org/~jonasbn/Business-DK-Phonenumber”>http://search.cpan.org/~jonasbn/Business-DK-Phonenumber/a>).

For my long term clients Itzy-Bitzy Communications and LOGU I have developed and maintained a set of tools for working with their DanDomain web shop solution. The DanDomain web shop offers a set of partner programmes, in the shape of product exports aimed at different external sites and services like:

- EDBpriser
- Gate2Prices
- Tradedoubler
- Kelkoo
- Partner-ads.com
- Pricerunner
- Din Pris
- Forbrugerliv.dk
- Spar30.dk

The tool implemented in Perl takes the existing exports and does manipulation and filtering on them for finer control and application of certain business rules to improve and optimize the output.

The tools have grown over the years and in the spring of 2009 a lot of new feeds were added to the existing suite of tools. This indicated a long awaited refactoring of the code base, which had grown organically with the requirements from Itzy-Bitzy Communications and LOGU.

One of the things that came out of that refactoring was WWW::DanDomain a class based on Andy Lesters marvellous WWW::Mechanize (http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/WWW-Mechanize/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm) a Perl module, assisting the developer in creating an HTTP client for accessing and retrieving data via HTTP.

WWW::DanDomain is for now pretty slim, but it is the core foundation in the tools created for accessing DanDomain web based administrative interface.

The idea behind the class, it to sub-class it and overwrite the processor method, which is the place to hook in, in order to get access to the product export data.

Currently we have implementations doing the following:

- Converting to XML from CSV
- Merging of data from two different exports
- Conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
- Complex business rules changed single fields in export
- Creation of exports for service providers not supported by DanDomain (see the list above)
- Cleaning of exported data

WWW::DanDomain is the first open source project from logicLAB, which is developed on our Atlassian Jira Studio solution, so things might change overtime as we get more into using Jira Studio for both closed and open source projects, for now the following resources are available from our WWW::DanDomain project web site (http://logicLAB.jira.com/browse/DAND):

- Wiki
- SCM, Subversion, readonly
- Bug/Issue tracking, requires account for now, but we are working on that

WWW::DanDomain is distributed under the Artistic License and can be downloaded from your local CPAN mirror or via: search.cpan.org (http://search.cpan.org/~jonasbn/WWW-DanDomain/).

logicLAB is sponsoring the YAPC::Europe Perl Conference in Lisbon Portugal.

See: http://yapceurope2009.org/ye2009/

The conference it the annual european Perl grass-roots conference and we are happy to be able to support this event. The next thing to find out is whether we will be to attend.