gizzlon

• 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

• 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?

• moru0011 commented on Why Dart is not the language of the future

  This post is full of wrong assumptions and misunderstandings.

  1. Factory constructors. Construction of objects is more than a design pattern, object construction is a core element of a language. Factory methods are a great improvement over the limited “new” statement. Nothing wrong with introducing this at lang level, as it does not prevent other patterns.
  2. Concurrency model: is actor-alike. This model is also favoured by many in the Java-VM language camp. A big advantage is that Garbage Collection (a big problem for large ente…
• Malaidas commented on Why Dart is not the language of the future

  I strongly feel you are missing the pint somewhat here.

  the primary use of dart is to bring sanity to scripting web applications, specifically those of moderate to large size and in this it achieves its aims from what I can see. Would I choose it for a desktop application, no, there are a plethora of languages better suited to this. For use in the browser though its a good choice in my opinion. Certainly better than plugins such as Java Applets or Flash etc.

  the main stopping point with creating sensible we applications is JavaScript's stupidities. Which are caused of course…

• cgarcia.e88 commented on Why Dart is not the language of the future

  For the reader, this article is very old and MISLEADING. The author just wrote it based on the SPEC and not actually coding. The conclusion of the author that "Dart fails to provides the advantages of static languages, without compensating by the flexibility of dynamic languages." is wrong. You get runtime errors and autocompletion thanks to its typed nature, but there is also the 'dynamic' type which gives you all the flexibility you might need.

  First I think that a title like "The language of the Future" is the author being pretentious. Dart doesn't want to be the "ultimate" langua…

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

  This old post of mine was just referenced in a new post by Mario Roy called "STFL Terminal UI - Concurrency Demonstrations" at http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1200923 . Enjoy!