CPAN dependencies are more fun to manage than ever
At London Perl Workshop 2011 there were many talks about CPAN modules and dependencies.
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Kindle Fire Review
I was originally thinking of skipping Kindle Fire because I’m happy with the original iPad, but when I visited my parents back in October, Dad said he was considering of buying an Android tablet. I thought it was a terrible idea, given the lineup of available options of shitty Android tablets in the market. I offered to give him my original iPad, but he wanted something lighter, like 7 inch. That made me buy this Kindle Fire, hoping this could be an actually “usable” Android tablet for him.
Status of cpanmetadb
Google AppEngine went out of beta and changed its pricing model today.
Carton talk at YAPC::Asia - video
My Carton talk’s video is up. Slides are in English and the speech is in Japanese. I was doing the demo abou 8:00 and it went really well. When I ship 1.0 i will most definitely do a screencast.
YAPC::Asia 2011 notes
The conference got 672 attendees and I think this is the record breaking biggest YAPC ever.
Carton CPAN dependency manager
via speakerdeck.com
Mobile Data services for visitors to Japan: 2011 Fall edition
Lots of friends have been asking me of options to get mobile internet in Japan, especially for a short visit (1-2 weeks). Here’s the updated version of such options.
On Perl and backward compatibilities
Much of my thinking about the future of Perl 5 stems from the following principles:
Renting books from SFPL using Kindle
Go to SFPL overdrive library, look for books you want to read. The catalog is not as quite nice - you might need to request a hold for popular books, which I did yesterday and received updates this morning that it is available now.
Going to London Perl Workshop 2011
Dotcloud sponsors my flight to London and LPW guys let me do the 2 hour tutorial for “Deploying Perl/Plack web apps to the cloud”.
Game Center CX filming
iOS 5 gets Japan earthquake notifications
Note that it isn’t officially confirmed that iOS 5 would have the access to Japanese Earthquake warnings/alerts. The linked post discusses about it based on the rumors and speculations. Yet, this blog post could be useful to explain how this alert system works, even if the rumor turns out to be false.
Joining DotCloud
So, here’s the update I promised last week: I’m thrilled to join DotCloud as a software engineer, starting May.
SAY goodbye
OK, so I have some news to share with you. Today, April 22nd, is my last day at SAY Media.
cpanm 1.4 is out - the greatest release ever
cpanm 1.4 is out last night. This is a major update and includes bunch of good things, and let me introduce two of them.
cpanm 1.3 will disable --uninst-shadows by default for perl >= 5.12
This is more of a note to self than an announcement.
FindBin, __FILE__, $0 and PSGI woes
tl;dr: Do not use if (__FILE__ eq $0) in your .psgi code, that’s not supposed to work since Plack 0.9971.
b-mobile now revealed their IDEOS, too, with new VOIP service
Following up my Japanese mobile plan hackery post, e-mobile just announced that they will release the new Android device dubbed “Pocket WiFi S”.
Running Eugene's Ginger clone on Vibrant
Re: Percent-encoding URIs in Perl - Mark Stosberg
utf8::encode $[0] if utf8::is_utf8 $[0];