I just updated the site for my perl charting library, Chart::Clicker, with lots of new examples. All the old ones had been added over time and things needed a consistency overhaul. Enjoy!

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It’s been on the CPAN for a few weeks, but I’ve not taken the time to pontificate about what exactly Graphics::Primitive and its cadre of helpers are.

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I updated the examples on the Clicker page. Cross posting in case anyone is interested.

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I’ve been hacking on a few projects lately that I finally got wrapped up enough that I could up them to the CPAN. I’ll cover each one.
Motivation
Before I cover the modules, I’d like to explain why I made them. Some of this functionality existed in modules on the CPAN, but it was either [...]

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Today was my last day at magazines.com. I started there 4 years ago as a Senior Developer and today I left my role of Development Manager to begin a new gig at Infinity Interactive. I’m pretty sure that I’ll write more about this after I get started tomorrow.
I’ve been hacking on Clicker a [...]

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A few years back I wrote an app for tracking the various numbers and values that are prevalent in a datacenter. This app tracked the vitals of all kinds of doodads. It was a glorified visualization tool. I used various bits from CPAN but eventually got fed up and decided that I [...]

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Rather than clutter up my personal blog with dribble about charts, I’ve created a new home for Chart::Clicker. I’ve also puncuated this with the release of 0.2.3.
Now I can’t use Clicker as a crutch for posting here…

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I’ve been avoiding writing two pieces of Chart::Clicker: the legend and the axis and it’s labels. I don’t know why. Perhaps they just aren’t as fun as the renderers.

Tonight I took a crack at it. The above example admittedly doesn’t look like much but it’s actually a lot of progress. There [...]

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I have now exposed opacity of the Area renderer, plus added the ‘fade’ option as well. I only exposed these new hooks (as well as an option to pass a Stroke) in Area. The other renderers, being red-headed step-children, will have to wait. You can now generate things like this:

chart-clicker-0.2.2
The example charts [...]

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Cairo.
GD was giving me some trouble and the frustrations got my eyes wandering. As I pondered graphic libraries I recalled Gnome’s noise concerning Cairo, so I went to check it out. I was impressed with it’s capabilities. I was pleasantly suprised to find Cairo.pm on CPAN, so here we are.
All the Renderers [...]

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