Saturday, October 15, 2016

Gender and Wearables? #wearables etc (arduino, others) is the rare tech where women are present and ...

Gender and Wearables?
#wearables etc (arduino, others) is the rare tech where women are present and often set the pace of the tech. hardware more welcoming? ;) — Su-Shee (@sheeshee) July 7, 2015 First I heard about modern wearables was at Indiana Linuxfest, where the speaker wen...

Monday, September 26, 2016

Perl on Ubuntu on Windows: A Solution I suppose I should've just been more patient. After a while of...

Perl on Ubuntu on Windows: A Solution
I suppose I should've just been more patient. After a while of waiting and watching and trying to think of a better bug report , one that might get a response, and failing, I got a response. You can't install the module because File::Find can not recurse di...

Friday, September 9, 2016

Net::Twitter Cookbook: Tweetstorm! I had planned to get into following, lists and blocking, but a wild...

Net::Twitter Cookbook: Tweetstorm!
I had planned to get into following, lists and blocking, but a wild hair came over me and I decided I wanted to make a tweetstorm app. What's a tweetstorm? This is a tweetstorm. You can tell by the number at the end -> (1) — Bad Joy Cave (@JacobyDave) Septe...

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Perl on Ubuntu on Windows: Finding The Right Test Case I'm still hung on getting CPAN working for Ubuntu...

Perl on Ubuntu on Windows: Finding The Right Test Case
I'm still hung on getting CPAN working for Ubuntu on Windows . In the comments, Chas. Owens gave me great advice for proceeding with this problem: Write a minimal test case, run the test case with strace on Ubuntu on Windows and Ubuntu on Linux. The outputs...

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Overkill III: Permutations of Overkill (Perl6) Long-time readers remember my previous code with the ...

Overkill III: Permutations of Overkill (Perl6)
Long-time readers remember my previous code with the Magic Box . In short, given the numbers [ 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 ] , arrange them in a 3x3 square such that every row, column and diagonal adds up to 21. My first pass, on a very old computer, had th...