acme's bits Vox 2009-11-05T08:40:12Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c2251cf7cc549d/tags/perl/ needs lrf support OOPSLA 2009 tag:vox.com,2009-11-05:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d0123ddb92d5a860b 2009-11-05T08:40:12Z 2009-11-05T08:40:12Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom OOPSLA 2009 happened a few weeks ago. OOPSLA stands for Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications and I've always been quite interested in the conference. The proceedings of the conference aren't put online, but I've managed t...

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]]> Games tag:vox.com,2009-10-19:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d0123ddc5c1e6860c 2009-10-19T07:25:22Z 2009-10-19T07:28:30Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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A few weeks ago I was up in the hills about Geneva reminiscing with my sister about all the things we used to enjoy when we were smaller. When I was younger I used to really enjoy programming computer games, first on my 48K Spectrum and then later...

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]]> Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE tag:vox.com,2009-09-15:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d0123f16112d3860f 2009-09-15T13:53:00Z 2009-09-21T06:27:25Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I'm trying to update various URLs in the Perl source code. Regarding the Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE README. It's very out of date now and most of the URLs are broken. I've contacted Mark Bixby, but he no longer has any involvement with the MPE/iX O...

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]]> YAPC::Europe 2009 tag:vox.com,2009-08-16:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d0110168874cd860c 2009-08-16T13:43:05Z 2009-08-16T13:45:12Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Two weeks ago I attended YAPC::Europe 2009 in Lisbon, Portgual. This wasn't the first YAPC in Portugal - in 2005 we went to Braga, a university town inland and it was a very well organised conference. It's no surprise the YAPC in Lisbon was also a...

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]]> SIGGRAPH 2009 tag:vox.com,2009-08-15:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d01101803735f860e 2009-08-15T12:11:58Z 2009-08-15T12:15:03Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I always enjoy reading the papers of the SIGGRAPH conference. It's nice to see what new graphical techniques are coming. Here are my favourite picks from 2009: Content-Preserving Warps for 3D Video Stabilization Self-organizing tree models for i...

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]]> Moose book tag:vox.com,2009-08-06:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d0110185dedf5860f 2009-08-06T15:44:12Z 2009-08-07T07:58:52Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I love Moose. It's a postmodern object system for Perl 5. It's very powerful, saves me writing a lot of code and is very extensible. Dave Rolsky received a grant to write the Moose::Manual and it's a great introduction to Moose, how to use Moose a...

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]]> Moose book tag:vox.com,2009-08-06:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d0110163ea8f4860b 2009-08-06T15:43:56Z 2009-08-06T15:43:56Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I love Moose. It's a postmodern object system for Perl 5. It's very powerful, saves me writing a lot of code and is very extensible. Dave Rolsky received a grant to write the Moose::Manual and it's a great introduction to Moose, how to use Moose a...

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]]> London.pm Technical Meeting 30th July 2009 tag:vox.com,2009-07-15:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d0110184ebc11860f 2009-07-15T08:19:34Z 2009-07-15T08:20:14Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl integrates with other software. The ne...

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]]> NOSQL tag:vox.com,2009-06-16:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d0110161b8360860b 2009-06-16T13:01:13Z 2009-06-17T06:36:11Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom "Non relational databases" have seen quite a bit of interest recently. There was a NOSQL meeting in San Francisco last week and they have very kindly put some slides and videos up. I find it interesting but haven't got enough data yet...

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]]> 0.02% of perl is my fault tag:vox.com,2009-06-05:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d011016117980860b 2009-06-05T16:05:45Z 2009-06-06T11:38:11Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I found a script by Jan Engelhardt which uses the git blame command to work out who owns how much of bleadperl. Results: Total lines: 2056059 627291 30.51% Jarkko Hietaniemi 308800 15.02% Nicholas Clark 171558 8.34% Rafae...

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