Mutant Weasels I was reading a blog post recently that mentioned the Dawkins Weasel program. I have always wanted to play around with Genetic Algorithms and this one seemed simple enough to hack at for a few hours. Four hours later I think I have something that can illustrate Modern Moose nicely ( Spacecataz this is specifically for you, seduce ... Read more 21 May 2009 - 6 minute read
The Small Business Rant Recently Scott McWhirter sent me the following video. </param></param></param></embed> We’ve been discussing the state of Entrepreneurship in the Perl community. Mostly that it doesn’t seem to exist. Read more 18 May 2009 - less than 1 minute read
I thought I’d take a stab at showing off a bot framework I’d written at the hackathon during the first Frozen Perl. The framework is known as either Adam or Moses depending on who you’re talking to, and is available on GitHub Adam lays all the framework and Moses brings in the declarative sugar and magic. So let’s take a look at a quick bot I w... Read more 18 May 2009 - 3 minute read
So one of the talks I had accepted to YAPC is on XML::Toolkit, and I thought I’d give a bit of a preview of what it is. XML::Toolkit was created for a project that required de-serializing XML in to Perl data, exposing that data to be edited, and then re-serializing it so a Flash client could read it. Because of assumptions made by the Flash scr... Read more 11 May 2009 - 1 minute read
What I’ve Learned about Perl Versions So in a discussion about the version numbers in MooseX::POE the following wisdom was imparted upon me: 14:35 <@lbr> DBIC had: $VERSION = '0.08010'; 14:35 <@rafl> just always quote version numbers 14:36 <@rafl> and don't make them shorter than a previous version 14:37 <@lbr> and peopl... Read more 08 May 2009 - less than 1 minute read