Top Gear is my new favorite tv show. I have no idea when or where it comes on. It’s fantastic. It’s rather funny in addition to being technically interesting. The quality of the picture is fantastic as well. The episode I am watching is encoded with XviD I fully intend to write [...]

Top Gear is my new favorite tv show. I have no idea when or where it comes on. It’s fantastic. It’s rather funny in addition to being technically interesting. The quality of the picture is fantastic as well. The episode I am watching is encoded with XviD I fully intend to write [...]

Slashdot had an interesting story few days ago about Apple still clinging to Objective-C. After a bit of thinking I decided it was good that Apple were sticking to their guns concerning languages. The third-party apps are rich and vibrant. Why should they pull a Microsoft and start pushing their developers into [...]

Slashdot had an interesting story few days ago about Apple still clinging to Objective-C. After a bit of thinking I decided it was good that Apple were sticking to their guns concerning languages. The third-party apps are rich and vibrant. Why should they pull a Microsoft and start pushing their developers into [...]

Slashdot had an interesting story few days ago about Apple still clinging to Objective-C. After a bit of thinking I decided it was good that Apple were sticking to their guns concerning languages. The third-party apps are rich and vibrant. Why should they pull a Microsoft and start pushing their developers into [...]

Slashdot had an interesting story few days ago about Apple still clinging to Objective-C. After a bit of thinking I decided it was good that Apple were sticking to their guns concerning languages. The third-party apps are rich and vibrant. Why should they pull a Microsoft and start pushing their developers into [...]

I’ve read plenty of gripes about OS X. Some of them are true and some of them are just opinion. I’ll contribute to the intertron’s cacophony on the subject. OS X’s window placement annoys me. I’m willing to overlook the lack of virtual desktops because Expose handles that for me. But when [...]

I’ve read plenty of gripes about OS X. Some of them are true and some of them are just opinion. I’ll contribute to the intertron’s cacophony on the subject. OS X’s window placement annoys me. I’m willing to overlook the lack of virtual desktops because Expose handles that for me. But when [...]

Took me a little while to find this today, so I thought I’d mention it for future reference.To add a declaration to a document created with XML::DOM, do the following:  my $decl = $doc->createXMLDecl(‘1.0′, ‘UTF-8′); $doc->setXMLDecl($decl);Now the xml from the toString() will have a...

Took me a little while to find this today, so I thought I’d mention it for future reference.To add a declaration to a document created with XML::DOM, do the following:  my $decl = $doc->createXMLDecl(‘1.0′, ‘UTF-8′); $doc->setXMLDecl($decl);Now the xml from the toString() will have a...

I’m big on web standards. I try very hard to ditch the nested tables of the 90s since divs are the new black.Today I was working on a form and decided to look for information ontableless forms. I was very disappointed. I’m all for using CSS wherever possible but I am not [...]

I’m big on web standards. I try very hard to ditch the nested tables of the 90s since divs are the new black.Today I was working on a form and decided to look for information ontableless forms. I was very disappointed. I’m all for using CSS wherever possible but I am not [...]

A few months back I mentioned rewriting search for work. Today I decided to look at Plucene, Perl’s port of Lucene.The ‘new’ search I wrote made use of an intermediary table that coalesced all the disparate data that search needed and utilized some clever querying to find, weight, and sort the results all in [...]

A few months back I mentioned rewriting search for work. Today I decided to look at Plucene, Perl’s port of Lucene.The ‘new’ search I wrote made use of an intermediary table that coalesced all the disparate data that search needed and utilized some clever querying to find, weight, and sort the results all in [...]

Just when it seems I’ve decided I dislike Java for real, I find something that changes my mind. Now I have some ammunition to use when people ask me how the JVM is able to be faster in certain situations that a traditional program.