Tag: perl
Perl Survey 2007
August 30th, 2007, No Comments
If you use Perl at all, how about taking the Perl Survey 2007? They’re collecting results until September 30th. After that the results of the survey will be freely available. They’re trying to answer some basic question about the Perl Community like how many people use Perl as a primary language; how many Perl users [...]
Gecko to music conversion using 3 bit tuples
February 21st, 2003, No Comments
I was driving home from work recently after a particularly stressful day when some random synapses fired in my brain (or perhaps just burned out from stress) and an idea formed. Standard diatonic musical scales have eight notes, a power of 2 that can be represented by a 3 bits. We’re used to thinking of [...]
Ducks, Peas, and Web Sites
April 1st, 2001, No Comments
Susan and I took some time off today and didn’t do any work. After a late breakfast we walked down to the park and fed some bread to the ducks and turtles. There’s quite an assortment of ducks this year including the usual white park ducks (well, I call ‘em park ducks but I think [...]
Robots Fighting Fires
March 18th, 2001, No Comments
The DPRG held the regional for the Trinity College Fire-Fighting Robot Contest in Dallas today. I took a few photos and will try to post them tomorrow or Monday on robots.net along with a summary of the action. Otherwise, I spent the day hacking on a Perl/DBI/PostgreSQL project. I’m looking forward to the release of [...]
Ringtones vis SMS using Perl
January 14th, 2001, No Comments
I managed to find some time to study the problem of sending ringtone data to my cell phone. As I mentioned in a previous news item, I’m sick of only being able to download silly melodies as ring tones and want to be able to create some ringtone datasets that more interesting ringing sounds. The [...]
Java Continues to Suck
January 3rd, 2001, No Comments
I was up late last night helping a client load-test a large web portal site they’re developing. The primary server is a Sun 250 with half a gig of RAM and dual CPUs. It runs Stronghold and the portal is a built on top of a bulky Java Portal architecture called Epicentric, which in turn [...]
Which Portals Scale the Best?
August 23rd, 2000, No Comments
I’ve been working with a client using Epicentric to develop portal sites lately. I’ve worked on portals for other customers in the past and have lately started wondering what the most efficient way of developing these sorts of web applications would be. The Epicentric product is Java-based and relies on a fairly huge stack of [...]
Turtles, Perl Monks, and Fidonet
April 28th, 2000, No Comments
Susan and I spent the afternoon at Fair Park the other day and shot a lot of photos of turtles. Susan got creative and scanned one of the pictures and wrote a short essay about turtles. Someone on Advogato mentioned a new Perl site called Perl Monks. They have a much more elaborate trust/skill metric [...]
