Jay Kuri

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• Posted Look at Padre! to Catalyzed.org
  For many years the favored editor for Perl developers fell under the same umbrella as the favored editor in *nix. A major fight between Vi and Emacs, and all the other options trailing behind somewhere. Over the past year, a...
• Commented on Software Quality and Value - A mathematical examination
  @niceperl: Thanks for your comments. You understood perfectly correctly. These are actually some of the things I plan to cover in the next article... but briefly: First, remember that quality has an upper bound of 1 (perfect quality). That apart,...
• Posted Software Quality and Value - A mathematical examination to Catalyzed.org
  Software developers often like to think of themselves as artists. We like being unquantifiable and somewhat mysterious. This behavior has roots in the fact that humans generally like to be thought of as unique and special. It also has roots...
• Posted The lie of independence - or - how I learned to stop worrying and love the dependency chain. to Catalyzed.org
  Every so often I see a blog post or a comment that is along the lines of "Don't use X, it has too many dependencies, use Y instead, it doesn't depend on anything." I've touched on this subject before, but...
• Commented on Creating a Simple Server - No HTTPD Required
  Also - Does Net::Server also not work on windows? That's what HTTP::Server::Simple uses. Does anyone have a suggestion for an alternative to HTTP::Server::Simple?...
• Commented on Your notes to Perl Newbies
  I'll share first... I'm almost embarrassed to say that for the first couple years of my Perl programming career I never used map... I know, I know. It was in the books I read, but not front-and-center enough I guess...
• Posted Your notes to Perl Newbies to Catalyzed.org
  So, I've decided to work on a book for those looking to learn programming. It will focus on learning how to program, using Perl as the example language. This, in my opinion, is an area that is sorely lacking in...
• Commented on Cloud servers for your Perl app - Amazon's EC2 vs Mosso
  @Diego: Thanks for the pointer, I will have to investigate SoftLayer's offering. @JP: This is true to a degree, though the EC2 problem exists on every small instance I've used and is a known problem (once you know how to...
• Posted Cloud servers for your Perl app - Amazon's EC2 vs Mosso to Catalyzed.org
  The big buzz nowadays in the web-application hosting world is cloud servers. Cloud servers are virtual machines that can be deployed quickly and easily by the customer without intervention by the hosting company. They tend to live in very large...
• Commented on A gentle introduction to Moose
  Thanks for the catch, Adam. I make the same mistake in my own Moose classes over and over. Seems there's a part of me that is not ready to let go of the hashref business in Perl OO. :-) It's...
• Posted A gentle introduction to Moose to Catalyzed.org
  Perl has had Object Oriented features since the release in Perl 5 in 1994. The Perl 5 OO is somewhat of a roll-your-own variety however, in that in classic Perl style, it provides the minimum in-language support required and leaves...
• Posted POE.... AnyEvent....3...2..1.. FIGHT! to Catalyzed.org
  POE is the incumbent. It's been around forever, it has a ton of extension and support modules, and when people are talking about creating a server of any sort, POE inevitably comes up. I've done a bit of work with...
• Posted Introducing the Catalyzed Wiki to Catalyzed.org
  Hello everyone. Just a quick note to let you all know that the Catalyzed.org wiki is now online. The content is still somewhat sparse, but we here at Catalyzed are excited. We have integrated the Wiki into the main website,...
• Posted A short lesson in API design to Catalyzed.org
  I came across this the other day, and since it pre-dates the Ironman competition, I wanted to pass it on. Dave Rolsky came up with some interesting comments about software and the documentation process. You know how it has been...
• Commented on Chained: The Awesomesauce
  Collin, What you ask for is possible, but there's a trick to it - if you create your view endpoint as: sub view : Chained('blog') PathPart('') Args(0) { #... } It will grab the 'end of chain with no additional...
• Commented on The Holy Grail of software development
  Lets call it a convention then. I've never seen a CPAN module without a single test....
• Posted The Holy Grail of software development to Catalyzed.org
  English is an interesting language. It has lots of rules, and over 170,000 words in common usage. That seems like a lot, until you realize that there are even more concepts that are described using multiple words. Those words are...
• Commented on What alternatives are there to CGI?
  What about smaller footprint? What are your options for things that might normally get deployed as a CGI? If you want to avoid the fork, spawn perl, parse overhead on every request? Jay...
• Posted What alternatives are there to CGI? to Catalyzed.org
  Everyone knows that you can write web tools using Perl and CGI. Most folks know that there are web frameworks for Perl such as Catalyst that allow you to create large and complex web applications relatively easily. Today I have...
• Commented on Down with TIMTOWTDI! Just F***ing do it!
  Kiffin, You are definitely right, there are a ton of resources out there... The problems I see are three-fold. First, if you are not in the Perl community already, it's hard to know where to look for good information. Second,...
• Posted What the H*LL is Reaction? to Catalyzed.org
  Ok. So you've heard of Reaction. You've read a blog post or two about it. You've even taken a crack at reading the fine manual, but you still don't quite get it. Don't feel bad. I was in the same...
• Posted Down with TIMTOWTDI! Just F***ing do it! to Catalyzed.org
  Perl is quite different to languages such as Java and Python. It is an open language with relatively few pre-defined ways to do things. This is one of the greatest strengths of the Perl language. It allows the language to...
• Commented on Perl's community and the difference between Ignorance and Stupidity.
  Hi Canol, I think you are rather misrepresenting your case here, but those interested can read the discussion and decide for themselves. On a personal note... to everyone who has had an experience like Canol: I will try to explain...
• Commented on Perl's community and the difference between Ignorance and Stupidity.
  Actually, Canol, I found the thread you refer to and it is the quintessential example of what I described above. Quoting your own post, which was the first one in the thread that had any negativity: "You see? You just...
• Posted Perl's community and the difference between Ignorance and Stupidity. to Catalyzed.org
  I've said before that Perl has a very active community. There are hundreds of people in each of the Perl related IRC groups I frequent. There are thousands of people on the mailing lists and more who frequent places like...
• Commented on Getting your antlers (A Moose article)
  Thanks for the catch. Curse the dangling )...
• Posted The Iron man challenge - Perl returns to the Blogosphere to Catalyzed.org
  We here at Catalyzed.org know that Perl is alive and well, but it can be hard to tell that if you don't know where to look.  Recognizing this fact, the Enlightened Perl Organization is sponsoring a new blogging initiative.  The...
• Posted Catalyst 5.8 Released! an Interview with Tomas Doran to Catalyzed.org
  Over the past weekend, a new version of the Catalyst web framework was released.  Catalyst 5.8 is a significant step in the development of Catalyst and while it changes a significant portion of Catalyst's internals, it retains backward compatibility with...
• Commented on PERL is dead. Long live Perl.
  logomachist, I have to respectfully disagree. Perl is not more difficult to learn than any other language. A bit more daunting for those who have not programmed before, I'll agree, but once you get over the fear of sigils, it's...
• Commented on PERL is dead. Long live Perl.
  CDR: I know... I actually used them. :-) I meant a Terminal Window... remember the Windows 95 Terminal window?...