Getting Started With Mojolicious

I'm undertaking a new project with some friends, and I've decided that this would be a perfect opportunity to learn some new things. More specifically, I'd like to learn a Perl web framework other than Catalyst (which I use at work), and I'd like to become more familiar with PostgreSQL, since I also use MySQL at work and I've heard so many good things about Postgres. I'm finding the latter a lot of fun to work with, especially coming from MySQL (I have a saying at work: If you use the phrases 'I assume' and 'MySQL' in the same sentence, you're likely wrong).

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Posted on 2011-02-28

I Still Don't Get PSGI/Plack

Ok, I've attended Perl Mongers meetings about Plack. I've attended Miyagawa's OSCON talk about it. I've read about middleware and backend-agnostic goodness, and even read a blog post titled "I finally get PSGI and Plack!"

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Posted on 2010-10-11

Hello, World!

Well, it's been about a week since I launched this site after a long waiting period, so I figured that my first blog post is overdue. And instead of writing about my recent journeys into SSH configuration files or Moose meta-magic, I'll be metablogging a bit. That's right; the first (official) post on this blog will be about blogging, or, more specifically, this blog. I decided to do a post about starting to blog mainly because this site isn't entirely ready for blogging yet (no discussion system, no trackbacks).

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Posted on 2010-09-27

Programming for Haiku: Hello World

If you're like me, you've been following the Haiku project for a little while, and are probably pretty excited about the recent alpha release. Wait, what? You haven't heard of Haiku? Well, Haiku is an open-source near-re-creation of BeOS, which was a revolutionary operating system for its time. Since I wasn't into computing back then, I can't justify describing Haiku and BeOS here, so here are some links to fill you in:

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Posted on 2010-09-10