Yes, this wheel has been invented scores of times over the last 10 years. But boy is this one shiny.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Catalyst::Plugin::AutoCRUD is a sexy beast
Wow. It took me about 30 seconds to add AutoCRUD to my existing Catalyst application. And now I've got a very shiny web 2.0'y CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) application for all my databases. Double clicking pulls up the edit window.
Yes, this wheel has been invented scores of times over the last 10 years. But boy is this one shiny.
Yes, this wheel has been invented scores of times over the last 10 years. But boy is this one shiny.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Firefly shot me 51 days into the future
I feel pretty good about my project this weekend. I used the University of Nebraska Firefly Cluster for a real project for the first time, completing 51.6 DAYS worth of data crunching while I slept between 3am and 9:30am this morning. The code I ran is my fork + branch of a bunch of Perl from Harvard against the latest human genome from UCSC. Masochists can read all the gory details (username: guest password: guest) and suggest improvements.
Computers are pretty cool sometimes. :)
Computers are pretty cool sometimes. :)
Thursday, March 4, 2010
ack is awesome!
Wow! People have been telling me this for years, but I was getting along OK with my old school Unix craziness:
So I installed ack and ran it:
$ find ./ | grep -v svn | xargs grep '\-\>Promotion'But today I couldn't get that working. Something with xargs escaping of -> just refused to fly.
So I installed ack and ran it:
# cpan App::AckAnd it found what I was looking for with zero fuss!
$ ack '\-\>Promotion'
Control/SG.pmHoly buckets! That is AWESOME! Thanks Andy!
335: $self->Promotion($promo_hash);
View/Web/Phoenix/lib/Phoenix/Controller/SG.pm
2844: $c->log->debug("you have these PromotionCode's already: " . (join ", ", keys %{$sg->Promotion}));
2846: unless ($sg->Promotion->{$preauth}) {
Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Actor Colin Firth on meditation
WHYY in Philadelphia, Terry Gross, Fresh Air, Feb 3 2010:
Starting at 28m mark.
Did you practice meditation?
Not seriously. I just tried to learn to be quiet a little bit. I actually went to a monastery. A Buddhist monastery to learn something about meditation. I have never practiced it with any great discipline, but I did find it to be, even in its probably shallowest and least-disciplined form, I did find it to be somewhat helpful because however fortunate my lifestyle is, it is not always the most restful.
What made you go in the first place to the Buddhist monastery? What did you want?
Restfulness. I've always been very attracted to the randomness and the unpredictability of my profession. I enjoy not knowing what's next. I enjoy the passionate commitment to something that is going to be gone soon. It's a strange creative promiscuity if you like. Where I move on to the next thing and commit myself with equal immersion and delight in something as if the one before just never existed. I think it's very exciting, but it can create this kind of upheaval because there's no continuity. And however thrilled I am by what I'm doing. However stimulated I am by it, it can be difficult to get back to a sort of a core. One of the things you're doing is taking on different people's lives. You're changing character. You're changing personalities. I find it's not always easy to shake them off. Before you shake one off you're taking another one on. I think for an actor getting back to a sense of who you are without all of that I think can be quite a challenge.
This was about 15 or so years ago. There was quite a bit of upheaval on a personal level. I was single at the time and it seemed that I was always at my happiest when I was employed -- I think there's something perfectly healthy about that -- but I was always happiest when I was engaged in something that was distracting me. I think it was, I felt it was time to discover how to celebrate life or to take joy in life when I wasn't distracted.
-end quote-
I don't really relate to the upheaval sentiment. And I'm not an actor. But the constantly distracting myself sentiment resonates with me. It's too bad the interview ended there. I would have liked to hear more about what meditation taught him, and how.
I consider it most likely that mine is a brain chemistry problem. Probably most expeditiously corrected with medication, not years of monastic study. But I have yet to solve that riddle, so don't know for sure. Stay tuned. I should get this one figured out sometime in the next 40 years or so.
Starting at 28m mark.
Did you practice meditation?
Not seriously. I just tried to learn to be quiet a little bit. I actually went to a monastery. A Buddhist monastery to learn something about meditation. I have never practiced it with any great discipline, but I did find it to be, even in its probably shallowest and least-disciplined form, I did find it to be somewhat helpful because however fortunate my lifestyle is, it is not always the most restful.
What made you go in the first place to the Buddhist monastery? What did you want?
Restfulness. I've always been very attracted to the randomness and the unpredictability of my profession. I enjoy not knowing what's next. I enjoy the passionate commitment to something that is going to be gone soon. It's a strange creative promiscuity if you like. Where I move on to the next thing and commit myself with equal immersion and delight in something as if the one before just never existed. I think it's very exciting, but it can create this kind of upheaval because there's no continuity. And however thrilled I am by what I'm doing. However stimulated I am by it, it can be difficult to get back to a sort of a core. One of the things you're doing is taking on different people's lives. You're changing character. You're changing personalities. I find it's not always easy to shake them off. Before you shake one off you're taking another one on. I think for an actor getting back to a sense of who you are without all of that I think can be quite a challenge.
This was about 15 or so years ago. There was quite a bit of upheaval on a personal level. I was single at the time and it seemed that I was always at my happiest when I was employed -- I think there's something perfectly healthy about that -- but I was always happiest when I was engaged in something that was distracting me. I think it was, I felt it was time to discover how to celebrate life or to take joy in life when I wasn't distracted.
-end quote-
I don't really relate to the upheaval sentiment. And I'm not an actor. But the constantly distracting myself sentiment resonates with me. It's too bad the interview ended there. I would have liked to hear more about what meditation taught him, and how.
I consider it most likely that mine is a brain chemistry problem. Probably most expeditiously corrected with medication, not years of monastic study. But I have yet to solve that riddle, so don't know for sure. Stay tuned. I should get this one figured out sometime in the next 40 years or so.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Pipeline evolution
Over the last couple of weeks I've been writing and changing a bunch of software trying to answer some research questions. I find the visual evolution of this pipeline interesting. Maybe you will too.
Sneak peak of the first chart:
Sneak peak of the first chart:
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
$76M? Thanks Catalyst!
Woot! Catalyst, our favorite Perl web development framework, served us well in 2009:
Over $76 million in revenue was booked through omnihotels.com, a 13.5% increase over the previous year; 460,902 room nights were booked during 2009, representing a 28% increase.
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