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Migrating a complex search query from DBIx::Class to Elasticsearch 30 Jul 2013 | 02:25 am
At the heart of one of our major web applications at TigerLead is a property listing search. The search supports all the obvious criteria, like price range and bedrooms, more complex ones like school ...
NYTProf v5 – Flaming Precision 9 Apr 2013 | 03:27 am
As soon as I saw a Flame Graph visualization I knew it would make a great addition to NYTProf. So I’m delighted that the new Devel::NYTProf version 5.00, just released, has a Flame Graph as the main f...
Suggested Alternatives as a MetaCPAN feature 11 Mar 2013 | 02:16 am
I expressed this idea recently in a tweet and then started writing it up in more detail as a comment to Brendan Byrd’s The Four Major Problems with CPAN blog post. It grew in detail until I figured I ...
Introducing Devel::SizeMe – Visualizing Perl Memory Use 5 Oct 2012 | 04:49 pm
For a long time I’ve wanted to create a module that would shed light on how perl uses memory. This year I decided to do something about it. My research and development didn’t yield much fruit in time ...
A Space For Thought 9 Apr 2012 | 06:15 am
This is the text of a speech I gave recently for the International Speech Competition at my Toastmasters club. (I won the club competition and came second in the area competition a week or so later.) ...
What’s actually installed in that perl library? 17 Nov 2011 | 11:52 am
A key part of my plan for Upgrading from Perl 5.8 is the ability to take a perl library installed for one version of perl, and reinstall it for a different version of perl. To do that you have to kno...
Upgrading from Perl 5.8 22 Jul 2011 | 02:50 am
Imagine… You have a production system, with many different kinds of application services running on many servers, all using the perl 5.8.8 supplied by the system. You want to upgrade to use perl 5.1...
Building a different kind of extension 30 Jun 2011 | 09:44 am
For the past year I’ve been rather distracted, with little time to devote to Open Source projects. I’ve been working on a different kind of project, adding an extension to our home. It’s been quite a ...
Looking for a Senior Developer job? TigerLead is Hiring again in West LA 15 Apr 2011 | 05:50 am
The company I work for, TigerLead.com, has another job opening in West LA: As a Senior Developer, you will be playing a central role in the design, development, and delivery of cutting-edge web appli...
java2perl6api – Java to Perl 6 API translation – What, Why, and Whereto 17 Jul 2010 | 05:12 am
In this post I’m going to talk about the java2perl6api project. What its goals are, why I think it’s important, how it relates to a Perl 6 DBI, what exists now, what’s needs doing, and how you can hel...