I spend most of my day hacking Perl at work. We have to side projects that are written in Java. One was developed in house and the other was developed by an outside company. Today I was mucking around in the latter’s source looking for a way to hack in a small [...]

For those of you just tuning in, Class::Mapper is my half-ass attempt to bring the wonders of something like Hibernate to Perl. It does a lot of neat things, and is probably completely useless in a real environment. For some reason I decided to tie up a loose end in Class::Mapper this weekend. 0.6 [...]

For those of you just tuning in, Class::Mapper is my half-ass attempt to bring the wonders of something like Hibernate to Perl. It does a lot of neat things, and is probably completely useless in a real environment. For some reason I decided to tie up a loose end in Class::Mapper this weekend. 0.6 [...]

For those of you just tuning in, Class::Mapper is my half-ass attempt to bring the wonders of something like Hibernate to Perl. It does a lot of neat things, and is probably completely useless in a real environment. For some reason I decided to tie up a loose end in Class::Mapper this weekend. 0.6 [...]

For those of you just tuning in, Class::Mapper is my half-ass attempt to bring the wonders of something like Hibernate to Perl. It does a lot of neat things, and is probably completely useless in a real environment. For some reason I decided to tie up a loose end in Class::Mapper this weekend. 0.6 [...]

Here’s a great infographic showing Apple’s strategy for bring it’s hardware to the masses.

Here’s a great infographic showing Apple’s strategy for bring it’s hardware to the masses.

ActiveState’s Komodo sucks. Let’s lay out why: It’s a pain to ‘try’, requiring way too much time to register and install It’s slow The ‘code intelligence’ feature expects to be TOLD to rescan my WHOLE DAMNED machine for new perl modules if I install them and want it to see them. This takes like 5...

ActiveState’s Komodo sucks. Let’s lay out why: It’s a pain to ‘try’, requiring way too much time to register and install It’s slow The ‘code intelligence’ feature expects to be TOLD to rescan my WHOLE DAMNED machine for new perl modules if I install them and want it to see them. This takes like 5...

Every few weeks I see an article where someone decides they can be the one to succeed where others have failed and show us all why Linux has yet to ‘conquer’ the desktop. I’ve got three words for you: No One Cares. If you search the internet for my nick (gphat), you’ll likely find me [...]

Every few weeks I see an article where someone decides they can be the one to succeed where others have failed and show us all why Linux has yet to ‘conquer’ the desktop. I’ve got three words for you: No One Cares. If you search the internet for my nick (gphat), you’ll likely find me [...]

I encountered a very interesting account of a bug in some software that used Hibernate and Oracle: Hibernate, Oracle and Dates. A Story. The part of the article that really got me was at the end, when he quoted Joel: Code generation tools which pretend to abstract out something, like all abstractions, leak, and the only way [...]

I encountered a very interesting account of a bug in some software that used Hibernate and Oracle: Hibernate, Oracle and Dates. A Story. The part of the article that really got me was at the end, when he quoted Joel: Code generation tools which pretend to abstract out something, like all abstractions, leak, and the only way [...]

If you’ve ready any of my opinions on the Apple Intel Switch, you’ve probably learned that I think it’s good. This morning, I read an article from Ars Technica that pulls the shimmery cover off the fiasco and lets us know why IBM recently announced new PowerPC chips that fill many of the holes [...]

If you’ve ready any of my opinions on the Apple Intel Switch, you’ve probably learned that I think it’s good. This morning, I read an article from Ars Technica that pulls the shimmery cover off the fiasco and lets us know why IBM recently announced new PowerPC chips that fill many of the holes [...]