August 2007 Archives

I've want to start using Test::Class for some of my projects. Here is an article on how to use it.

http://consttype.blogspot.com/search/label/mysql

The best one: export MYSQL_PS1="\\d@\\h> "

Max Roach died last wednesday. This article tells of his accomplishments.

In this article Paul Graham talks about how good programmers tackle programs.

He also alludes that a succinct programming language is a powerful language. He's probably talking about lisp, but perl or ruby could fit that as well...

CPAN watch is a blog that highlights the best new uploads to CPAN...

I need to get back into playing. So today I picked to two things to help me combine two things I love. Computers and music. I got a M-Audio Firewire Solo and a audio-technica AT3035 mic. The mic is expressive. I really like it. Now to practice...

Interesting article on red black trees in Moose....

Perl Buzz is a new site whos purpose is to garner some attention for perl. And there using Movable Type 4...

I'm looking for an off-site backup system... Amazon's S3 looks pretty good and there is a perl interface and a ruby interface. I like the ruby interface better but then there is Brackup which might be a good choice. Still looking...

Best line from this article: And then, when I need to get to the Vista's stations network controls. Ugh. It's like trying to drive a race car with oven mitts on my hands.

This guy pretty much says it all...

Linus: I like making strong statements, because I find the discussion interesting. In other words, I actually tend to 'like' arguing. Not mindlessly, but I certainly tend to prefer the discussion a bit more heated, and not just entirely platonic.

And making strong arguments occasionally ends up resulting in a very valid rebuttal, and then I'll happily say: "Oh, ok, you're right."

But no, that didn't happen on SVN/CVS. I suspect a lot of people really don't much like CVS, so I didn't really even expect anybody to argue that CVS was really anything but a legacy system. And while I've gotten a few people who argued that I shouldn't have been quite so impolite against SVN (and hey, that's fair -- I'm really not a very polite person!), I don't think anybody actually argued that SVN was 'good'.

SVN is, I think, a classic case of 'good enough'. It's what people are used to, and it's 'good enough' to be used fairly widely, but it's good enough in exactly the sense DOS and Windows were 'good enough'. Not great technology, just very widely available, and it works well enough for people and looks familiar enough that people use it. But very few people are 'proud' of it, or excited about it.

Git, on the other hand, has some of the 'UNIX philosophy' behind it. Not that it is about UNIX, per se, but like original UNIX, it had a fundamental idea behind it. For UNIX, the underlying philosophy was/is that, "Everything is a file." For git, it's, Everything is just an object in the content-addressable database."

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This guy rocks. His name is Wes Funderburk. He writes small songs for mutiple trombones, plays all the parts and mixes them in GarageBand. Here is a video blog of a making of one of his songs.

An interesting article on securing your postgresql server.

Irssi is a terminal based irc client that is scriptable in perl.

For those that haven't tried, please try git. I think you will find it a great source code management system. For those who say that its harder the subverson, get over it. It's not that much harder and the benefits out way any inconvenience of learning the new commands. Here is an article that talks about some of the not so obvious features of git.

I've been a Red Hat guy for a long time. I even have my RHCE. But it's time I learned other linux systems. Ubuntu systems are very popular and it would nice if knew something about them. I still think Red Hat and Fedora are very worth while, but I can't let that stop me from learning something new.