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29th Mar, 2005
Updated to include inheritance tree, method signature, linking of methods to documentation anchors, HTML from pod2html, and css from kobesearch.
Pod Search
Next up: download link, use package name as bread crumb trail, reformat long method listings, related links (probably from del.icio.us although Perl.com articles would be nice).
25th Mar, 2005
This is all the POD on my server, converted into approximate Docbook xml, and then inserted into the free version of MarkLogic.
The speed still amazes me even though this is only 11MB.
Here’s the xquery code that runs the search.
25th Mar, 2005
I finally got my first module on CPAN. This is a coming of age event for Perl programmers.
The module, Net::MarkLogic::XDBC is an interface for running XQuery on a MarkLogic XML repository.
I’m super excited, stoked even, for the possibilities created by working with MarkLogic. Their CIS product can hold terabytes of XML and query it instantaneously with XQuery.
25th Mar, 2005
O’Reilly luminary and former coworker, Schuyler Erle, seems busy.
So now that the book is done and Jo and I are back from India, we’ve decided to make robots.
Mapping Hacks is out in June. He, wife Jo and cohort Rich Gibson are maintaining a weblog devoted to the state of geolocative hackery. And now they’ve decided to build robots.
10th Mar, 2005
Slight obsession with Warren Buffet lately.
Starting with the Berkshire-Hathaway annual report/business lesson: 2004 Annual Report
Followed by this commentary on the report.
Mr. Buffet gives a lot of details about the workings of the business but he won’t add up the numbers for you and tell what the actual value is. That’s supposed to be your job. However, these guys put together a little calculator to do that dirty work for you. Naturally it says that Berkshire stock is heavily undervalued (despite outperforming the S&P500 by a factor of 2 over a 40 year period).
Naturally I went out and bought a share with my IRA contribution.
Here’s some more helpful links:
http://www.focusinvestor.com/links.htm
9th Mar, 2005
Just saw PDFs for Damien Conway’s “Perl Best Practices.” I tech reviewed the regex chapter and was thrilled to see the extended white space option list as best practice #1.
It’s really amazing to me that people that care about indentation and commenting when writing very readable languages like Python or Java can stand to see a completely unreadable language like regular expressions written without any whitespace or any comments. Shouldn’t this offend the sensibilities of just about any programmer?
7th Mar, 2005
Here are some other places where I blog:
http://blogs.oreillynet.com/beasts/
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1128
http://blogs.regexadvice.com/