Collision: Is Religion Absurd, or Good for the World?
Last fall, we went on tour debating the topic "Is Religion Good For The World?" Our arguments were captured on film for a new documentary, Collision. Are our morals dictated to us by a supreme entity...
View ArticleFuture Perl snuck up on me
Apparently I'm out of touch. Look at all this Perl6:: stuff implemented in Perl5. For example, Catalyst uses Perl6::Junction.And Moose is starting to look like Perl7 to me. Here perigrin explains what...
View ArticleOmaha's first-ever Catalyst Wed Dev Workshop
Trying a new format at next month's meeting:http://jays.net/wiki/Catalyst_WorkshopWish me luck! Should be fun. :)
View ArticleI'm suing Facebook
Great. Now I'm suing Facebook for an application I've never used or even heard of, and it's up to me to opt out via snail mail.It's disgusting how many leeches on society are getting rich off of me and...
View ArticleOmaha's First-Ever Catalyst Workshop: Success!
And there was much rejoicing!I thoroughly enjoyed presenting the workshop. Thanks for coming! We'll have to do it again (or an advanced / specific topics version) someday soonish?See you in January!
View Article...so complex that you need a large IDE to comprehend it
This is an excerpt from an Omaha.pm thread today.We're discussing Eliminating Inheritance Via Smalltalk-Style Traits by Curtis "Ovid" Poe.In his paper, Curtis wrote:Anyone forced to use "vi" (not even...
View Article$76M? Thanks Catalyst!
Woot! Catalyst, our favorite Perl web development framework, served us well in 2009: Over $76 million in revenue was booked through omnihotels.com, a 13.5% increase over the previous year; 460,902 room...
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Pipeline evolution
Over the last couple of weeks I've been writing and changing a bunch of software trying to answer some research questions. I find the visual evolution of this pipeline interesting. Maybe you will...
View ArticleActor Colin Firth on meditation
WHYY in Philadelphia, Terry Gross, Fresh Air, Feb 3 2010:Starting at 28m mark.Did you practice meditation?Not seriously. I just tried to learn to be quiet a little bit. I actually went to a monastery....
View Articleack is awesome!
Wow! People have been telling me this for years, but I was getting along OK with my old school Unix craziness:$ find ./ | grep -v svn | xargs grep '\-\>Promotion'But today I couldn't get that...
View ArticleFirefly shot me 51 days into the future
I feel pretty good about my project this weekend. I used the University of Nebraska Firefly Cluster for a real project for the first time, completing 51.6 DAYS worth of data crunching while I slept...
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Catalyst::Plugin::AutoCRUD is a sexy beast
Wow. It took me about 30 seconds to add AutoCRUD to my existing Catalyst application. And now I've got a very shiny web 2.0'y CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) application for all my databases....
View ArticleGource: Programmers as action heroes
Check out the history of Perl development 1988-present. As you can see, when you speed it up enough and use lots of colors and movement suddenly programming is exciting to watch! (For a few minutes.)...
View ArticleGratuitous Moosey ego stroking
The Godfather of Moose gave me mad shout-outs on his blog for some minor tweaking I did to the Moose website. Later I expressed some of my recent concern about academia, and he offered this sage...
View ArticlePortland's marketplace of ideas... in Omaha
In Portland tomorrow night:Robert Buels presents "The Amazing Miracle of DBIx::Class"Rob will give an introduction to and overview of DBIx::Class. It's an object-relational mapping framework, much...
View ArticleWind tunnel workplace
Arrived at work this morning and the front doors were locked (odd) and one of them was propped open with a sign (odder). The lobby was filled with a loud metallic rattling / vibration sound. I stared...
View ArticleScience can answer moral questions
Listened to this on my iPod yesterday. Watched it on YouTube today. Very powerful if you let it sink in.Science can answer moral questionsI like this piece a lot more than when he spends most of his...
View ArticleCatalyst and Quality Assurance bliss
I've fallen in love with website testing. Again. Catalyst and WWW::Mechanize are awesome. The scenario below takes several monotonous and error prone minutes to QA as a human, or several seconds as a...
View ArticleDeadgirl
From: Jay HannahSent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 12:36 PMTo: Andria HannahSubject: movieOops, I forgot. Put 'Deadgirl' somewhere Zach won't find it. Not appropriate.Thanks,jFrom: Andria Hannah > Okay....
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Adventure in Serenia
I wonder if my parents or my brother remember me playing this classic in the basement in Livonia, Michigan on our IBM PCjr. I sure do. One of my earliest computery memories.
View ArticleOS X "Address Book" sync fail to Google
I assumed this would all "just work" in 2010, but I guess I was wrong. My toys:OS X 10.6.4 MacBook, OS X 10.6.4 Mac mini Mail, Address Book, iCalGoogle Mail + Contacts, CalendarHTC Evo 4G (Android 2.1)...
View Articlequibids.com, you're my hero!
Holy crap! The people running this auction site must be making a fortune!Quibids.com is an auction site where you pay to bid. Each bid costs $0.60 and raises the bid price on the item by 1 penny. Items...
View ArticleDBIx::Class join, prefetch
Over the last 15 years I've joined two database tables into a one-to-many relationship about a billion times. But I've never had any software let me loop the left table and right tables separately...
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