If you spend any time working in Perl, I think you should a take a look at Padre, the Perl IDE – it’s worth spending a couple of hours looking at, at least.
Just a quick update today – been spending some time writing a little Jabber bot.
Always a glutton for punishment, a recent project to redevelop a website involved changing pretty much every layer of the stack – Apache became nginx, mod_perl became FastCGI, and the custom code was moved into a Catalyst project. Having never seriously worked with any of these before, my first deployment (today!) was an interesting affair.
It seems like everyone is doing it – I know of at least two other codebases for a blog controller – which makes me wonder: is there a repository of drop-in components for the Catalyst framework, or are we all doomed to re-invent the wheel? I did ask on #catalyst about it, but having not …
I’ve spent the last week away, where I’ve had absolutely no Internet access at all. No WWW, no RSS, no email – not even any Twitter (although I did tweet a couple of times from my phone). It’s surprising (or not) how much “connected” time I’ve got used to – it was like a week …
So, it’s 2010 (however you like to pronounce it), it’s out with the old and in with the new! I must confess to having lived in a bit of a bubble for a while, not venturing out of my comfort zone, and so things got a little stale. No longer.
People who know me are familiar with my dislike for Flash, so for me to be doing some work in it might come as a surprise.
(Found this in my home directory – it came up on an IRC channel I was on, and I was bored) rar, tar, zip, arc, dmg ar, shar, cab, arj, rle 🙂
I think this should be a matter of public record: (taken from my Facebook profile) Richard Wallman Last night, while I was out with Becki (whom I’ve barely seen in the last week because of work) I was removed from the Birmingham Freecycle group – the Group I’ve been a moderator of for the last …
It’s Friday again, which draws another week to a close. This week, I have been mostly hacking away at Freecycle stuff – I made the mistake of finessing my complexity estimates for the current Sprint down, so the total amount was reasonable. As such, I’ve had to do more work than I probably continue to …