Dmitry Karasik

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• Posted Perl dying? Well now I don't care to Dmitry Karasik

  It is a bit of a long story how I got burned by bad perl internal politics.

  For many years I wanted images in Pod. And many others wanted too. And of course, each time I raised this in lists and on facebook, an answer was, if you want it, go and write it yourself. I would tell that myself,…

• Posted Prima: release v1.59 adds major text rendering functionality to Dmitry Karasik
  method. Now, a more versatile and modern way is added with text_shape() method that converts text string in a series of glyphs, that allows the fo…
• Commented on Struggle getting PDL book example to work on Windows 10
  You need to install Prima without tests if it gives you headaches. However PDL::Drawing::Prima is old and won't compile. I've sent a pull request that fixed it (check on github)...
• Posted adventure with PVS-Studio C/C++ analyzer to Dmitry Karasik

  I've recently read a promo article about a static C/C++ analyzer called PVS-Studio by viva64.com, where the readers were urged to use the product, and I did just that. Evgeniy Ryzhkov, the creator of the program kindly sent me a one-week key, and I immediately started testing some of my C/XS…

• Commented on Suspending efforts on my #riba2016 crowdfunding campaign, looking forward to my own Xmas
  If you think you cannot find a job that will sponsor your time on important (OSS) modules, I think you're wrong....
• Commented on playing with Cairo
  Raini thanks for the tip .. Indeed Inline::C speeds it up to 10 times! Now in 1.01 version :)...
• Commented on playing with Cairo
  Oh, I wish! I don't know PDL well enough, so to my limited knowledge there's no such thing in PDL that would do the trick. OTOH with Prima::Cairo you actually can make PDL::G::P cairo-based. The module is 1.00 and has...
• Posted playing with Cairo to Dmitry Karasik

  

  I was recently reading a brilliant post A first-person engine in 265 lines by Hunter Loftis, and instantly wanted to port it to Perl. After doing half…

• Commented on Automatic variable highlighting in vim
  nice...
• Commented on booking.com - a toxic company for developers
  godwin's law being unpopular, now it's slave trade )...
• Commented on how I learned to plot a mandelbrot set
  Hi David, I'm sending you a PM because even though I agree that it is as good a forum as anything else in general, this good forum doesn't notify me when I get comments. Or at least I can't find...
• Commented on how I learned to plot a mandelbrot set
  @Book cool! :) @David thank you! Btw I was always meant to ask you but kept forgetting - PDL::Drawing/Graphics/Prima don't include image management routines, and image plotting examples are rather slow because they do it rectangle-wise using pdl_bars .. did...
• Posted how I learned to plot a mandelbrot set to Dmitry Karasik

  When I first met fractals in the school, I thought that they were if not magic, then something very close to it. The concept of a fractal dimension was something I couldn't react to logically, but only emotionally, basically, with a "wow" and…

• Commented on A Tiny Code Quiz
  The explanation for 4 is slightly wrong, it should be, quote perldoc scalar, "Evaluates all but the last element in void context and returning the final element evaluated in scalar context" But it's curious how perl allows passing more than...
• Commented on Data::Dumper::GUI
  Toby, Steven: there is expanding with mouse, it seems that both of you have Prima compiled without GIF support somehow and that's why it's disable. If Prima has it, outline widget shows small extra [+] and [-] icons next to...
• Commented on Data::Dumper::GUI
  Hi Toby, I think this is a very cool app! If you need help with base Prima api, TextView or whatever else please don't hesitate to ask, I'll be glad to help. As for the fixed font problem, I'll see...
• Posted twinkle twinkle catalyst to Dmitry Karasik

  I'm developing under Catalyst and am using the Catalyst test server that is running on my local machine and is reloading every time I'm saving changes to the source tree. This is a cool feature, but I have to wait in front of the browser until the application is loaded full and can answer http…

• Commented on A brief introduction to Prima
  I'd also like to thank Fabio for his efforts! I myself lack the style to present material easy enough for the beginners, so if this series will continue that would be great...
• Posted Re: Asynchronous HTTP Requests in Perl Using Whatever to Dmitry Karasik

  In addition to asynchronicity I couldn't stop and wrote this:

  
  
  https://www.bing.com      …

• Commented on Re: What if we could drop archives into @INC?
  @Chad Thanks for the effort, I remember I tried that thing with @INC some years ago, when it wasn't established yet, and didn't work the way I hoped. It's great to know that it is solid now....
• Commented on Re: What if we could drop archives into @INC?
  @Steffen: that's interesting! is this the branch you're referring to? http://svn.openfoundry.org/par/branches/fastio/ I can't find anything related there, sorry...
• Posted Re: What if we could drop archives into @INC? to Dmitry Karasik

  An article written by brian d foy What if we could drop archives into @INC? got me thinking. Indeed, I've been burned myself by PAR, which is a great instrument, but I don't like that it…

• Commented on On defined(@array) and defined(%hash)
  My 5 cents here: I personally couldn't make any use of discussions on p5p, and my very subjective view is that Reini couldn't either, therefore the rant. Imagine you're trying to get your point through, cannot, feel ignored, and venting...
• Commented on Your Perl-driven cyborgs can soon recognize objects
  Awesome! Any chance to get it working together with PDL?...
• Commented on What if we could drop archives into @INC?
  I've deployed standalone perl apps and missed the feature greatly back then. It was rather annoying and tedious to hand-roll a self-unpacking perl directory with all modules and what not. I've tried PAR, it can make a one-contains-all exe file,...
• Commented on Those TIFF files
  You're welcome to try the latest Prima on these files use Prima; Prima::Image->load('a.tif')->save('a.jpg'); or even send the worst ones to me -- i'm keeping a small collection of tiff pecularities ;)...
• Posted Those TIFF files to Dmitry Karasik

  While releasing and compiling Prima 1.33 for 5 different perls, I'm taking a moment to send a couple of warm ones towards the TIFF specification. Prima originally was written to be used in (among other) software for microscopy recordings, and…

• Posted udp_server with IO::Lambda to Dmitry Karasik

  I'm turning again to my module IO::Lambda, which I think, doesn't get the resonance it could have. I've seen AnyEvent's tcp_server, which is great and easy to use, and was reluctant to add one to IO::Lambda, because it's so easy.…

• Commented on ASUS EPU-6 utility hacked with Win32::GuiTest
  @all: sorry didn't answer, only now I noted that there _are_ some comments. I wonder if MovableType can ping me each time a comment is made....
• Posted ASUS EPU-6 utility hacked with Win32::GuiTest to Dmitry Karasik

  Some time ago I've bought a windows desktop with ASUS EPU6 because I wanted my desktop to be extra quiet. It is quiet indeed, but it's done by a special GUI utility, where one should compromise first between noise and CPU speed. That utility runs on startup, remembers its last setting, and…

Comment Threads

• willthechill commented on Suspending efforts on my #riba2016 crowdfunding campaign, looking forward to my own Xmas

  How can I communicate with you in a non-public forum? Can you please send me a message? (No I'm not trying to make you change your mind, I just want to talk.)

  irc.perl.org #perl11 willthechill

  william DOT braswell AT autoparallel DOT com

• Peter Rabbitson commented on Suspending efforts on my #riba2016 crowdfunding campaign, looking forward to my own Xmas

  I think if I had seen this explanation...

  Arriving at this sort of clarity took me several years, left alone being able to put it into words. I feel in the end it's for the best, less tension on all sides is not to be underestimated.

  perhaps this would have worked better with a truly long fundraiser time.

  Hmmm... longer than 3 months? That's... an interesting thought for whoever attempts to do this next.

  You really only have 35kUSD in debt?

  Hehe. Well, I didn't get a chance at higher ed. so that probably helped ;P

• john napiorkowski commented on Suspending efforts on my #riba2016 crowdfunding campaign, looking forward to my own Xmas

  I would add some general thoughts on fundraising, if we are talking about that, and maybe to some degree trying to write a lessons learned here that would be of value to anyone else that tried in the future. I worked for some non profits in the past that always did big fundraising so I do have some hopefully useful information:

  1) Fundraising is like running a political campaign, you are always doing it. You need to treat it like a big marketing project. Always have your 'elevator pitch' ready. Its a marathon, not a sprint.

  2) Rich people and companies don't contribute be…

• Wendy commented on Suspending efforts on my #riba2016 crowdfunding campaign, looking forward to my own Xmas

  I look back on many meetings with you, formal, informal, and otherwise. Most of the meetings taught me that you are very smart, and often not very diplomatic. Not being diplomatic does not mean that you weren't right. I am not a good coder, and you are, so it's not up to me to decide how right you were on proposals to change code. I do marketing in a shitty way, and I'm not the greatest diplomat of this world, so it's not up to me to decide how right you were on proposals to change policy or marketing. I do know it has almost always a pleasure working together with you, and I do thank…

• zubenel commented on Struggle getting PDL book example to work on Windows 10

  Dmitry, thank you for help, I was able to run an example with Prima!

  Plot was generated, but somehow on the top I see PDL/Prima (Not Responding) and if I move the cursor on the top of the plot I see that the cursor is spinning constantly.

  What I have done was this:
  1. Downloaded dk/PDL-Drawing-Prima from Github. Extracted it to folder C:\sw\pdl\cpan\build
  2. Opened shell by clicking portableshell.bat in C:\sw\pdl\. Used shell to navigate to the folder that was extracted from zip file.
  3. From shell ran these commands to install PDL::Drawing::Prima: