Nigel Horne

CDs all sorted. I needed a new cabinet for those that I’ve been picking up cheaply from sales and I’m happy with the way it looks.

App::Test::Generator Generate fuzz and corpus-driven test harnesses from test schemas

I've published version 0.28 of App::Test::Generator, the black-box test case generator. I focused on tightening SchemaExtractor’s handling of accessor methods and making the generated schemas more honest and testable.

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YouTube video by Nigel Horne French Overture

Thirty years ago, on a quiet, boring weekend afternoon, I gave myself a small challenge: write something simple. Not a grand symphony, or life’s work, just a short piece in the French Overture style, for the pleasure of seeing if I could. This is what came out of that moment. youtu.be/sli0Xzc5VPk

Well that’s TMA 3 submitted, on the topic of information overload. I’m happy with the language, but I’m not sure if I answered the question correctly.

More fun. It’s currently 5F or -15C. Whichever way you put it, this is not the start to 2026 I signed up for.

YouTube video by Nigel Horne Comet

Comet, the second movement of my Universe suite, is an orchestral essay that transforms an astronomical narrative into a musical trajectory. Written for strings alone, it demands the full weight and expressive range of a large orchestral string section.

youtu.be/NLzyZNCQ460

And so it begins. Right now it’s -13C or 8F. Whichever you prefer.

Obligatory weather post. If I wanted weather like this I’d live in #Greenland.

App-Test-Generator-0.25 Generate fuzz and corpus-driven test harnesses from test schemas

It's been about 3 weeks since I last gave an update on my black box test generator. During that time, I've been primarily working on the module that creates schemas from #Perl code; these schemas are then used to generate the tests.

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YouTube video by Nigel Horne Fantasia for Brass Band and Organ

In Fantasia for Brass Band and Organ, I approach a notoriously problematic pairing with both imagination and seasoned practicality. Rather than using the organ as a soloist, the organ has an obligato role.
youtu.be/Y0D0eKSAefk
#organ #brassband

YouTube video by Nigel Horne Voyage

Voyage is a medium-scale chamber work for six #trombones - alto, four tenors, and bass - conceived with a sense of large-scale architecture despite its concise duration of approximately five minutes as part of my M.Phil. Degree, although this is a version dating to 2007.
youtu.be/ZLJzyn2oAIo

Late Christmas present to self has just arrived. Let the nostalgia begin.

YouTube video by Nigel Horne Tomorrow Shall Be my Dancing Day

o continue the festive spirit, I am sharing my setting of Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, the traditional English carol whose joyful circularity has long made it a favourite of the season. I arranged this version in 2006. youtu.be/1j3MD74eIZI

XML-PP-0.06 A simple XML parser

I've just released XML-PP version 0.07. The main changes are
Ignore comments in the XML
Added bin/xmlpp-cli, a command-line program to parse XML files
Improved attribute parsing
Accept single-quoted attributes
Normalize whitespace between attributes
Added a testing dashboard
metacpan.org/dist/XML-PP

Making sure Father Christmas doesn’t get lost.

YouTube video by Nigel Horne A West Riding Christmas

As Christmas draws near, it seems fitting to return to that landscape in sound. I therefore present a medley composed in the year 2000, which I titled A West Riding Christmas. youtu.be/wWu6KcaVn_Q

I've reached a major milestone in App::Test::Generator.

Perl source → inferred schema → generated fuzz test → compiled → executed → all tests passed

That means, it read a Perl program, generated tests for it, and ran them. It's now on GitHub - CPAN tomorrow.

YouTube video by Nigel Horne Silent Night

Silent Night is one of the best-loved of all Christmas Carols. This setting is from a version of the piece I made for flugel and tenor horn duet. I hope you enjoy it. #christmasmusic

youtu.be/otNpUrbNRio

L223 TMA02 submitted. Definitely not A grade but I am so pleased to get it submitted on time.

App-Test-Generator-0.20 Generate fuzz and corpus-driven test harnesses

I've just released 0.21 of my black box test generator. The highlights from the changelog are:

Fix max string testing with non-ASCII characters
Changed rand_str to be a unified generator that randomly produces a codepoint string

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YouTube video by Nigel Horne While Shepherds Watched their Flocks By Night

The hymn "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night" has a fascinating history, particularly in how its words were officially sanctioned and then widely disseminated, leading to it being sung to many different local melodies and folk tunes across England.
youtu.be/5-1B1g9qefA

MAGA senator’s dual citizenship bill could directly impact Melania and Barron Trump Bernie Moreno’s radical plan would force anyone with dual citizenship to choose between the two countries

Sigh

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

App::Test::Generator Generate fuzz and corpus-driven test harnesses

I’m pleased to share that App::Test::Generator v0.20 is now available. This release includes several improvements that enhance accuracy, usability, and detection logic.

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