December 2011 Archives

New Lingua::Identify::CLD

As if I did not have enough modules to take care already, I just started a new one. It is still on its beta version as I did not have much time to test it, and write a decent API. It is available in the usual place: https://metacpan.org/release/AMBS/Lingua-Identify-CLD-0.01_01

This is an interface to a library by Google for language detection. As far as I could understand, it is part of the Chrome browser, and was just released as open source. Details here: ="http://code.google.com/p/chromium-compact-la…

Never ever trust Ubuntu

Was using an ubuntu virtual machine. Issued "ack" It said to install it using "sudo apt-get install ack". I did it. It didn't install App::Ack :( it is some other stupid tool. So, "sudo apt-get remove ack" followed by "sudo cpan App::Ack".

About Alberto Simões

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