kiffin

Website: www.kiffingish.com/blog
Profile:Born and raised on Unix and C, and later discovered the wonderful world of Perl.

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Commented on An Introduction to FormHandler
Nice overview. Another slightly more advanced feature of HFH which I like to use is the ability to show/hide fields depending on some prerequisite. This is done by using a method modifier for set_active and then calling the active method...
Commented on Fnargh::Form::Auto (Soon to be HTML::FormHandler::Reflector::DBIC)
I've also been playing around with HTML::FormBuilder and like it alot. For simple forms it might be a bit of an overkill and much quicker just using a quick template, but for more complicated stuff like dynamic forms requiring various...
Commented on MT+Plack on nginx = love
Sounds like really good stuff. Does anyone have any experience using it with Lighttpd?...
Commented on Creating a Simple Server - No HTTPD Required
Is not working under Windows really a "massive flaw"?...
Commented on My Take on Development Processes
Nice entry, here's my feedback for those interested. Indeed 'developer' is the more formal variation of 'programmer' but no one is saying one is better than the other. Sorry, but I disagree with your view that "even horribly mangled spaghetti...
Commented on A gentle introduction to Moose
This is an excellent introduction to Moose, Jay. You've covered the bare necessities well and are spot on in handling the essentials of this interesting module. Look very much forward to the following lessons, e.g. moose attribute and type checking...
Commented on A detailed look at MooseX-Types
This is all very elegant indeed. However, I would like to invite folks to discuss the pros and cons of this approach, for example in light of any extra overhead incurred through its implementation. I'm not worried that it might...
Commented on POE.... AnyEvent....3...2..1.. FIGHT!
Never had the good fortune (time or energy) to dig into the wonderful world of Poe. But if we already have Catalyst, why bother with Poe? What are the differences between the two, along with the advantages versus disadvantages?...
Commented on Chained: The Awesomesauce
This is an excellent introduction to a concept that is not easy for the light-hearted. The code is insightful, but wouldn't it also be nice if some flow diagram was also available? Also, it would be nice to add this...
Commented on The Holy Grail of software development
Well unfortunately Sam's book is no longer available as an ebook (I even contacted the fine folks at apres and they confirmed it). But if you're lucky like me you'll happen to find an edition in some obscure back shelf...
Commented on The Holy Grail of software development
In my opinion the two most under-rated tools in Perl are (indeed) CPAN and (don't forget) the amazing Perl debugger. I recently purchased and sawed through the book 'Writing Perl Modules for CPAN' by Sam Tregar, and although it is...
Commented on What alternatives are there to CGI?
I'd have to go with mod_perl as the quickest means for prototyping and playing around with concepts. A good understanding of apache is a prerequisite, but this knowledge is always useful anyway and should be a part of one's work...
Favorited SWYM (Say What You Mean) - Declarative Catalyst on Catalyzed.org
Commented on What the H*LL is Reaction?
Although it is quite impressive the amount pod documentation available for most of the cpan modules, I believe that some extra effort could be spent in improving the so-called ::manual stuff. They are pretty technical, intense and difficult to understand....
Commented on Down with TIMTOWTDI! Just F***ing do it!
Like most other programming languages worth their weight in salt, Perl has a relatively steep learning curve. In order to become talented one must learn the tools of the trade. There's always more than one way to do it, even...
Commented on PERL is dead. Long live Perl.
All programming languages (including Perl) are by definition unmaintainable, e.g. without the right tools, without qualified experts, without the will to survive, you can pretty much forget it. What makes Perl an interesting alternative compared with other languages is when...
Commented on Perl's community and the difference between Ignorance and Stupidity.
Speaking of attitude, I strongly believe that what makes the Perl community special is that as true underdogs we are energized by overcoming challenges and sneaking up from behind. In the longer term, there's a good chance of snatching the...
Commented on Getting your antlers (A Moose article)
Nice and clear discussion about Moose with lots of handy links. However, gives me a 404. Otherwise excellent stuff....

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Devin Austin commented on Creating a Simple Server - No HTTPD Required
kmx - thanks for the insight. You got to the Windows answers much faster than I would have!...
Rocco Caputo commented on POE.... AnyEvent....3...2..1.. FIGHT!
Marc: Your argument is based upon the premise that POE cannot work beside other event loops. As an example, you say: "POE-using modules can not ever work in Irssi". Here is a counter example. In 2007, Chris Williams demonstrated a POE-based IRC server running as an Irssi script. As part of his demonstration, he connected Irssi to the POE server running within the same client. Irssi did not become a POE program. POE did not "infect" Irssi. POE did not "monopolise" Irssi's event loop. POE::Kernel->run() wasn't called to run the IRC server. If I seem to perpetually misunderstand the "crucial...
Rocco Caputo commented on POE.... AnyEvent....3...2..1.. FIGHT!
My previous comment cites an example where POE runs alongside another event loop. The code would not have worked if your claims were true. You dismiss this fact altogether too easily by mentioning a warning that POE emits when a user hasn't called POE::Kernel->run(). You claim that it says run() must be called after starting sessions. No, the warning doesn't specify when to call run(). In fact, the documentation explains that this "infamous" warning may be disabled by calling run() before starting sessions: POE::Kernel will print a strong message if a program creates sessions but fails to call run(). If...
tgape commented on A gentle introduction to Moose
I agree; this is the most compelling Moose intro I've seen to date. Up until now, I had the impression it was another big module which offered a steep learning curve before it was usable. This was easy....
Devin Austin commented on MT+Plack on nginx = love
I'm not really sure, I know lighttpd is a lot easier to get fastcgi stuff going on, and there are hacks to get MT running under lighttpd, which was the main reason I used nginx for this study. It's really a matter of just http proxying to your running plack instance. I should post the config file! :-)...

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