I’ll be working mainly with RoR but still a bit of Perl – as a result I’ve been playing with Rails for a couple of weeks now, and all I can conclude is that RoR might as well be Catalyst with Moose and a different templating front end. You can certainly see where the ideas have crossed over!

With regards to the new server, this is now a new server running Cherokee rather than Apache, so we’ll see how things go!

http://per.ly/ will be an aggregate of these blogs, and perhaps some other content. So hopefully more good content soon to be appearing!

I knew these campaigns were running in London, but was surprised to see it on a bus in Stockport. Never heard a religious message proclaiming “There probably is a god”!

So I hit the console and tried to manually make one of the modules and that worked fine. After some more digging I discovered that for some reason the config variable telling cpan where the make binary wasn’t set, so a simple “o conf make /usr/bin/make” and now everything’s hunky dory.

Silly CPAN.

The first one orders a beer.

The second orders half a beer.

The third, a quarter of a beer.

The bartender says “You’re all idiots”, and pours two beers. ”

Devel::NYTProf was originally made by the good people at the New York Times and Tim took it over fairly recently. It kicks Devel::Dprof’s ass, so go take a look.