gizzlon

• Website: was.id.ly
• About: I don't blog about Perl.

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• Commented on Using WebKit to generate PDF slides
  Great work, this looks very cool. And I disagree with the pro-beamer comments. Stay away.. it's ugly and complex. Even if you actually want a LaTex based solution, there are others that are much simpler. (Unless something fundamental changed in...
• Commented on presentingperl.org "may harm your computer"
  Ok, thanks.. Seems like google is no longer listing the site as "suspicious"...
• Posted presentingperl.org "may harm your computer" to gizzlon

  Google has been marking www.presentingperl.org as dangerous for at least a few days already.

  Firefox issues a warning and so does google search. Anyone know whats going on?

  I want to check out some of the talks Mark Keating lists:
  ="http://mdk.per.ly/2012/01/27/video-k…

• Commented on Perl dropped and Go adopted due to concurrency issues in baconbird
  Source: https://github.com/akrennmair/baconbird...
• Commented on Why Dart is not the language of the future
  FYI there's more discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098435...
• Commented on Quick note on using module JSON
  Are you sure you're attacking this problem the right way? The moment you start worrying about how perl stores the strings internally you're going off the deep end :) From: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunifaq.html "Please, unless you're hacking the internals, or debugging weirdness,...
• Commented on DateTime and Excel difference
  Yup =) Ran into the same thing using Date::Simple .. Wonder what the reason is.. Guess they got it wrong in the beginning and couldn't fix it.. hehe...

Comment Threads

• Francis commented on Perl dropped and Go adopted due to concurrency issues in baconbird

  I'm curious to see what you write. If you don't mind, this Reddit commenter had some concerns about the event programming approach (The discussion was regarding Node.js and the commenter's event programming experience is in C++). If it turns out to be relevant to what you end up writing, you might address these concerns.

  
  http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ky6uc/nodejs_is_cancer/#c2obr7p

• educated_foo commented on Using WebKit to generate PDF slides

  Stay away... there are others that are much simpler.

  Which? After trying several LaTeX slides packages, I found Beamer to be the best, even using it for my thesis defense. If you want to do anything more complex than an outline in a huge font, it's the way to go.
• Joel Berger commented on Using WebKit to generate PDF slides

  I agree. The incrementing engine is excellent, plus when you pair it with TikZ you can do almost anything!

• Ranguard commented on Using WebKit to generate PDF slides

  Nice!

• James commented on Perl dropped and Go adopted due to concurrency issues in baconbird

  RE: STFL, is just a curses user and Curses has similar problems with blocking. Wouldn't a POE::Wheel::Curses-like workaround of checking if STDIN has data to be read and running $stfl->run(0) if it does, $stfl->run(-1) otherwise, work?