(alternative title: Too Much Time on My Hands, which goes rather nicely with my last Perl 6 post).
So, in the beginning there was lolcats, then there was lolcode, then there was lolsql (jnthn even wrote a parser for it!) and then I took the joke too far and started lolsh, the lol Shell, in Perl [...]
I have always liked bots, I have written a few MediaWiki bots in other languages and the first non-trivial Perl 6 I wrote was my own Perl 6 MediaWiki bot framework (still not ready for any live-wiki editing yet). There just seems to be something about writing a program that imitates human behaviour (such as [...]
Part of the fun of trying new platforms to test specific software is getting past the initial hurdles. On OpenSolaris it was figuring out how to install Git, Subversion, GNU Make and GCC (which I easily found out how to do). On Haiku it was figuring out why the compile was failing and how I [...]
I must have commited hubris the last time I tried Rakudo on Solaris and had no trouble.
I booted up a fresh OpenSolaris partition today, the first time in about two weeks, installed all the tools and downloaded rakudo, however Parrot’s Configure.pl script gave out errors and it died during the build process as a result. [...]
Update 27/09/09: As of Parrot revision 41493 none of this is necessary, Parrot’s generic platform code checks if the time functions are available and replaces them if need-be (which is all moving the file from darwin’s code to generic was doing anyway).
The Haiku OS project released their Alpha 1 a few days ago and since [...]
Lately I have been thinking more and more that Ubuntu is not the operating system for me. Don’t get me wrong, it is fantastic and I would easily recommend it to anyone wanting to try Linux but in the interest of expanding my horizons I decided to try something different. My first thought was another [...]
