Perl 5 Internals - Part One

Last week I completed a two-part training at work on perl's internals, led by Yves Orton and Steffen Mueller. We covered some of data structures used by the interpreter, as well as some of the optimizations it uses and the consequences of how those optimizations are implemented. Someone on Twitter asked me if there were any slides available, and unfortunately, the talk was conducted in a very ad-hoc fashion (which actually probably contributed to its success, as the audience was able to propose new areas to cover). However, I did end up taking some notes, so I'm going to summarize those here along with what I remember. A lot was covered in the two sessions, so in the interest of actually getting this information out (I tend not to publish things that I can't write in one sitting), as well as keeping your attention, I'll be publishing them in a series of posts.

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Posted on 2013-08-28

Site Facelift

Over the past few weeks, I've been working on giving my site a bit of a facelift. As you can see, the style has completely changed; I decided that the site needed a fresher look. Many thanks to my wonderful girlfriend Michelle for her stylistic contributions!

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Posted on 2013-08-28

Playtime

Lately, I've noticed that I've devoted a lot of my time to open source projects or projects at work. While these are important, the kind of work these involve can get a bit repetitive at times, and I haven't really allocated a lot of time for "play" programming. By that, I mean writing things for fun, or experimenting with new things. To quote Albert Einstein:

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Posted on 2013-06-05

A Google Reader Alternative: Tiny Tiny RSS

Well, if you haven't already heard, Google is discontinuing Google Reader as of July 1st. I used to be a Google Reader junkie, but I have since moved away from it, and since everyone seems to be looking for an alternative, I thought I would mention the "service" I moved to: Tiny Tiny RSS.

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Posted on 2013-03-19

A Pygments Highlighter For Perl 6

For the past two weeks, I have been working on a Pygments syntax highlighter for Perl 6. It has finally reached a state where I feel it is ready to be tested by the community! If you have some Perl 6 code and some spare time, please test it out. Or if you're interested in helping out the Perl 6 community by testing this code, please feel free to grab the source for an existing Perl 6 module (http://modules.perl6.org/) and verify that the colored output makes sense. The code is located here:

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Posted on 2013-01-05