Yesterday we had our monthly TechSocialMeet: wolmers talked about his work on fuzzy queries on large word-lists and various algorithms for similarity string matching. Interesting! happy-barney (who visited us from Brno) showed us his perlbrew-travis-yaml.pl script which you can use to run your tests against various `perlbrew`ed version of Perl. ...
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A short story about how a small DB change made me question google cloud, Postgres, and my sanity. SPOILER: It was all my fault! A simple change Recently we had a very strange problem with a postgres database running in google cloud: A rather trivial change to the DB schema, which took <1sec on my laptop did not finish after a few minutes. In
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More sea, more woods: Inčupe, Saulkrasti Here we stayed in a lovley tiny house in the woods, not too far from the sea and spend our time with: more hiking along the sandy beaches and through the forests (one day while it was raining) more cakes proper swimming (it was rather hot on our last day) relishing the view from our tiny house collecting
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After the city we went to the where the Baltic sea and the Gulf of Riga merge: Kolka. hiking along the sandy beaches and through the forests dozing / reading on the beach dipping the feet into the water (for proper swimming it was a bit cold, plus you'd have to walk about 1 km into the water ... it is very shallow here) collecting plastic ...
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I have been saying for quite a long time that we should market our conferences and events more to non-Perl developers. I think we as a Perl community could greatly profit from having some fresh input from other communities, and the other communities might realize that Perl is a nice, beautiful language (family) which you can use for sane (and ...
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