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arc_of_descenton Why I Use Perl: Testing

I totally agree. Perl is one language that takes testing quite seriously. Just installing some CPAN modules and seeing the numerous tests run gives you a hard on (I mean, a hardened server)

arc_of_descenton Debian to use Xfce as its standard desktop

Long time Linux desktop user. After using ArchLinux for just over six months with Xfce, I recently switched to Debian Squeeze. I'm so glad that Xfce will be the default DE. Its simple and gets the job done.

arc_of_descenton Why use Moose? A PostgreSQL perspective.

Moose is not really an ORM. You would be better off using an ORM like Rose::DB::Object which can help you with type constraints.

arc_of_descenton Perl 5.16.0 is out, with 590,000 lines of changes

I just started a new project a week back with the objective to apply real time effects/filters to an audio stream.

Main choice of programming language is Perl. Firstly as I have more than 10 years of experience using it. And secondly as its a fantastic glue language. And of course CPAN. The modules I'm going to be using are indispensable - CGI::Application, Audio::Ecasound, POE, Net::LibLO, MIDI::ALSA and more. This is my first project where I'm going to be doing audio stuff and Perl has made the transition so easy!

arc_of_descenton Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India

I am using Airtel in Mumbai and the sites are blocked. Crazy stuff!

arc_of_descenton Xfce 4.10 released

I switched to ArchLinux and Xfce a month back from Ubuntu. I really liked Unity and I'm looking forward to trying out Ubunto 12.04 but for all purposes I'm going to stick with Arch and Xfce.

arc_of_descenton Arch Linux turns 10

Just tried out Arch a week back now, and I was quite happy with it. Here's to 10 more years!

arc_of_descenton Great "About Us" page design..Bobbleheads

Funny and different. Click on the heads to make them bobble even harder.

arc_of_descenton Plink, a multiplayer HTML5 music game

Very nice. It took me a moment to realize there were other users who were creating sound too!

arc_of_descenton Steve Jobs has passed away.

As with most, I'm pleasantly surprised by the emotions in me related to Steve Jobs' death. I've only ever used an iPod. I guess this is testament to the person he was. Screw the tech stuff.

arc_of_descenton What technologies are under your site

Nice. but you have to click on the kid, NOT!

arc_of_descenton Loren wants to work at Airbnb

Really nice looking page. Was going through the source and found this - "I'm a self-starter and <strong>entrepreneur</strong>"

arc_of_descenton Taskwarrior is a time and task management tool (terminal)

I'm using Dropbox. And then,

$ task config data.location /home/dir/Dropbox/tasks

arc_of_descenton Google Tasks API Released

Been looking for something like this. Any way I can store metadata about the tasks. Or rather more data. Say I would like a "budget" field for a task.

arc_of_descenton Ask HN: JavaScript dev environment ?

What has complex got to do with the editor? Maybe it would help a bit. But if you design the codebase to be modular, you have only a little part of the code to worry about at a time, so you can use your current editor setup. :)

arc_of_descenton What system do you use for bug tracking?

Mantis. But I tend to think the pages are too long.