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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I work for magazines.com and we are looking to add to our team!
We’re a Perl shop, located in Franklin, Tennessee. We sell magazine subscriptions online. This year we’ve got a lot to do and I’m looking to add some developers to our ranks. I’m not sure how many yet, but I can [...]

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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’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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Yesterday I released Osgood::Client and today, after realizing I had botched the upload, Osgood::Server. Unfortunately the documentation is a little thin, so I’ll take this opportunity to both inform the world and the module of it’s purpose.
Osgood is a passive, persistent, stateless event repository. The current docs say queue rather than repository but [...]

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One of the most precious responsibilities afforded to me as a developer is the ability to name my projects. Moreover, as Development Manager I could — theoretically — dictate the names of all the projects done in my department. That’d be dictatorial and I don’t do it… but I do reserve the right [...]

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*Hasten Slowly*, in the Latin.
A conversation with Jaxn tonight got me thinking: How ‘fast’ are the sites of the top 10 ’shopping’ sites (per Alexa)?
So I measured them. At first, it was a simple matter of emptying my cache and loading each site. But many sites, understanding how important it is to get [...]

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UPDATE: The demo and trac links are down atm, as Ayalike is being moved to new hosting.
I’ve been hacking away for the last week or so on a content management system (henceforth CMS). We are going to need a CMS for some future $work projects and I’m generally unhappy with all that I’ve reviewed. [...]

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Oops. A bit late with this one.
* BPM 37093 is a white dwarf that, as it has cooled, has turned into a diamond. Our sun will do the same in about 5 billion years, as a hard crystalline core forms in it’s center.
* Planting 300,000 new trees and allowing them a full [...]

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It’s back. A little short this week, but I have to get back into the habit.
* Baby blue whales can gain up to up to 200lbs a day by drinking about 100 gallons of milk. Whale milk is 40-50% fat whereas cow’s milk is appromixately 4% fat.
* India is the world’s largest butter [...]

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