acme's bits Vox 2008-10-17T08:11:43Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c2251cf7cc549d/tags/perl/ needs lrf support Tick My Boxes tag:vox.com,2008-10-17:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d00fae8e77f9a000b 2008-10-17T08:11:43Z 2008-10-17T08:11:43Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Book-cover

I've been so busy recently that I realise that I haven't blogged about my book, Tick My Boxes "The web developers' checklist". This was my most recent two-month project and I managed to get some great reviews of the beta version of the book from ...

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]]> JVM Language Summit tag:vox.com,2008-09-29:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d0100a7ff16ae000e 2008-09-29T10:02:18Z 2008-09-29T10:05:05Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Vm

The JVM Language Summit took place last week. It really shows off that many different languages are trying to target the JVM to take advantage of the years of optimisation knowledge that Sun has invested. If you want to see what projects are goin...

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]]> Typography tag:vox.com,2008-09-25:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d0100a7fe179b000e 2008-09-25T14:19:52Z 2008-09-25T14:19:52Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Ligatures

Typography is such a simple thing. It's the art of type, the design of making things as easy to read as possible. I've written about typography before, but I need to write again, because there is so much bad typography in the world. I've just fin...

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]]> Moose tag:vox.com,2008-09-01:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d00fae8dad945000b 2008-09-01T17:34:51Z 2008-09-11T13:06:03Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I was going to write about how I have come to love Moose, but I can't really beat how John Napiorkowski explained it on the perl-appengine list: "Without Moose, I'd probably have lost the faith and left Perl for another language..."

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]]> Which logging module? tag:vox.com,2008-08-28:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d0100a7f604ce000e 2008-08-28T06:55:35Z 2008-08-28T06:55:35Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

DSC03724

One of Perl's mottos is "there is more than one way to do it". This is of course a great thing, except when there are two ways to do it and I can't decide which is the better one or the most popular one. Such is it with logging modules - there ar...

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]]> IO tag:vox.com,2008-08-25:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d00fa96943a490002 2008-08-25T16:04:08Z 2008-08-25T16:04:08Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

DSC04778

I was microoptimising. I admit it. I was trying to get a little bit of code which read a part of a file going quickly, and I got slightly sidetracked. I noticed that PerlIO had layers, so I played around with the layers and benchmarked things. I ...

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]]> CPAN::Mini::Webserver tag:vox.com,2008-08-06:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d00fad6a087190005 2008-08-06T09:30:08Z 2008-08-08T07:08:12Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

A small mirror

CPAN is quite large at 4.9GB (BACKPAN, which holds everything ever uploaded to CPAN is even larger, at 11GB). This is why we have CPAN::Mini, which creates a minimal mirror of CPAN ("It contains only those files needed to install the newest versi...

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]]> SIGGRAPH 2008 tag:vox.com,2008-08-05:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d00fad6a02bdb0005 2008-08-05T10:19:51Z 2008-08-08T07:10:29Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom SIGGRAPH 2008 happened last week and here are some of the papers that I particularly like: Programmable Aperture Photography: Multiplexed Light Field Acquisition - all about capturing light fields on a standard camera Motion-Invariant Photogra...

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]]> More Grant Proposals tag:vox.com,2008-08-03:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d00fa968d5b800002 2008-08-03T13:14:42Z 2008-08-04T06:44:41Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

IXS_2937

This quarter's Perl Foundation Grant Proposals have been announced. Some of them are quite interesting, but we need to know which ones you like so we know which to approve - please have a read and leave questions and comments.

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]]> Amazon Service Health tag:vox.com,2008-07-22:asset-6a00c2251cf7cc549d0100a7eadea1000e 2008-07-22T16:09:27Z 2008-07-22T16:10:02Z acme http://acme.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

IXS_1631

It used to be that you had to dig around in forums to check if Amazon S3 or EC2 had problems. How things have changed: Amazon Simple Storage Service (US) Event: July 20, 2008. Mental note, once I have thousands of servers I should check out gossi...

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