Author Archives: Tim King
My Recent Posts at The Perl Shop Blog
I also blog over at The Perl Shop Blog. Most of what I write about Perl anymore is over there. My recent pieces include:
Subclassing vs Embedding in GoLang
This is a topic that I’ve seen pop up in discussions and articles about Go. The Go programming language does not support inheritance, but instead it supports composition via “embedding.” It can be a little hard to grasp the difference. … Continue reading
Finishing Off that Bug in djangocms-picture (part trois)
In the prior episode of this story, I had written a test to detect the bug I want to fix. The djangocms-picture plugin includes errant whitespace inside of HTML anchor tags, which renders as annoying blue underlines next to the … Continue reading
Still Fixing that Bug in djangocms-picture (part deux)
Last time, I began fixing a fairly simply space-within-anchor-tags bug in djangocms-picture. I’m using this exercise as an opportunity to (a) try out a disciplined development process in the context of a Django application and (b) dig into the Django … Continue reading
Fix that Bug in djangocms-picture
I mentioned a couple fundamental issues off the bat with my website revamp using Django CMS. I’m in the process of revamping my hub site, www.JTimothyKing.com. I had created a barebones site: only a single page of content, two columns … Continue reading
Website Revamp to Django CMS
It was long past time to redo my hub site, www.JTimothyKing.com. It had been running Drupal for far too long. I won’t tell you what version. Suffice it to say that the version had been unsupported for quite some time … Continue reading
How to Cheep in Many Programming Languages (not a tutorial, but a spiritual journey)
I have a small problem. The first part of the problem is that I’ve been a Perl developer for the past decade— That came out wrong. Let me start again. I have a small problem. The first part of the … Continue reading
The Most Powerful Programming Paradigm in the World?
I’m not a hackathon kinda guy. I don’t get off on solving hard or novel problems. I don’t believe in contests. I’m not particularly energized by the idea that a whole bunch of us are trying to solve the same … Continue reading
Mopping up with Perl
I ported my DFW.pm Hackathon entry to the latest Perl dev release (5.19.9), the one with built-in sub signatures. I had originally designed it using the latest p5-mop and Алексей Капранов’s (Alexei Kapranov’s) signatures package. (I thought this was more … Continue reading
Benchmarking Perl 6: How Ready for Prime Time Is It?
Here are the slides from the talk I gave at this month’s Boston Perl Mongers meeting, this past Tuesday: Benchmarking Perl 6: How Ready for Prime Time Is It? The talk examines: Perl 6’s suitability for “production.” (Your definition may … Continue reading
