CodedRight.net tag:www.codedright.net,2009-02-18://1 2010-05-28T16:53:37Z get it CodedRight(tm) Movable Type 4.261 Some Big Lebowski Fun tag:www.codedright.net,2010://1.106 2010-05-28T16:52:00Z 2010-05-28T16:53:37Z Devin http://www.codedright.net I found a video clip of this on YouTube and converted it to an .aiff with Mix so I could use it as my default alert sound on OS X.  Pretty hilarious.God-Dammit-Walter.aiff]]> Kung Fu Chronicles: Practice with Sifu tag:www.codedright.net,2010://1.105 2010-05-07T21:00:16Z 2010-05-07T21:31:45Z Devin http://www.codedright.net
A lot was learned in a relatively short time (1.5 hours or so, compared to the 7 months I've been training).  
]]> Kung Fu Chronicles: First Student Instructor Class tag:www.codedright.net,2010://1.104 2010-05-05T03:55:47Z 2010-05-05T04:01:04Z Devin http://www.codedright.net
I'm in better shape than I thought.  I was definitely a bit gassed, but I wasn't gasping for breath desperately trying to get my wind again.  I've got a few adjustments here and there to make, but all in all, I felt pretty good.  I think this will go really well.  I got complimented on my horse stance by both Sifu Manning and another student instructor, so that really was a boost.

Anyway, I've gotta go write my stuff down before I forget it.  Mo' lata.
]]> Coming Up: Muscletacul.us tag:www.codedright.net,2010://1.103 2010-05-04T18:15:29Z 2010-05-04T18:21:34Z Devin http://www.codedright.net
I've figured out how to use Catalyst::Plugin::Params::Nested, jQuery, and DBIx::Class's ->populate method to create an arbitrary number of records (in this case, workout exercises).  So hopefully, I'm going to have a relatively well optimized web application up within the next week or so.  It's wonderful such robustness can be achieved with a little ingenuity (not so much on my part, when I figure things out it mainly just puts me on par with "good" programming :-)

Updates coming!
]]> Kung Fu Chronicles: One Day Until Student Instructor Class tag:www.codedright.net,2010://1.102 2010-05-04T00:17:57Z 2010-05-04T00:21:18Z Devin http://www.codedright.net
I'm pretty nervous.  I'm uptight, it's been a really insane end of the semester, with a lot of things that SHOULDN'T have EVER happened, but I've got family, friends, and kung fu to fall back on always.  I'm going to go in with an open mind and soak up all I can, and rely on the fact that I've been training physically very hard and should be in good enough condition for this.

We'll find out.

I'll be writing more about this as it goes on.  I haven't much time to write right now, but I'll be writing more later.
]]> "...and behind every great woman is a great behind" tag:www.codedright.net,2010://1.101 2010-04-27T19:17:37Z 2010-04-27T19:41:38Z Devin http://www.codedright.net
This past weekend was my Great Uncle Leo's funeral.  I heard story after story about how much of an amazing person he was.  I always knew he was a very kind, a very driven, and a very intelligent man, but I was completely unaware of the magnitude of his graciousness, and the impact he had on people.  The pure love he showed all of his family and friends.  I can't, and will not attempt to, put into this paltry blog post how special of a person he was.  His love trickled down through his family and generation after generation, and each person he touched was a little better for having known him.

I can't say enough about how wonderful of a man he was, and what he meant to all of us.  He inspired my brother and I to get through college, and not to take life too seriously.

I can only hope to pay it forward by acting in a manner that would make him proud, and really looking at the world in a friendly light and treasuring those that I love so much.

God bless, Uncle Leo.  You are the giant's shoulders that people stand on.

uncle-leo-obit.jpg 
Leo Francis Milan -  April 15th, 1930 - April 19th, 2010

]]> Discoveries: Search Party Cont'd tag:www.codedright.net,2010://1.100 2010-03-22T23:01:46Z 2010-03-22T23:12:53Z Devin http://www.codedright.net dfw, I learned a great deal about Solr and it's various and assorted CPAN modules supporting its use with Catalyst.  Solr is fairly nice, but I'm not entirely convinced it's worth the maintenance hassle unless you have a large volume of requests coming in for your search data. The small things that I got hung up on weren't really worth the hassle for a small, low traffic site like Denzel.  I'm still not a *huge* fan of hitting the database per search, so I looked into a few other solutions.


Sphinx looks pretty neat.  It's written in C, and has native support for MySQL indexing (you point the mysql client at the sphinx mysql emulator, if that's the proper term, and you can make SELECT *... statements just as you would connected to a typical mysqld).  This is really cool, since you could (potentially, this is all untested and pure theory) setup a DBIx::Class resultset/schema based on your search data (or just have a separate schema that connects to the sphinx instance) and do searches from there.  However, having recently played with Data::SearchEngine, I think it would be much cooler to write a subclass of Data::SearchEngine that does the search operations on your data set for you.  You get cool things like faceting, serialization, and an elapsed time count.  On top of that, it would be pretty trivial to wrap it in a Catalyst::Model so people that like to do $c->model('Sphinx') can do so.

Anyway, this is a rather scatterbrained post of mine I wanted to get out of my scatterbrained head before I forgot about it. Cold Hard Code just launched CodePeek which has some good examples of the aforementioned modules, most of which are in use in production code.

]]> Search Party: Solr, Catalyst, WebService::Solr *and* DBIx::Class::Indexer::WebService::Solr tag:www.codedright.net,2010://1.99 2010-03-03T23:30:38Z 2010-03-03T23:39:57Z Devin http://www.codedright.net "play" site for a couple months now, and since it's incarnation, have wanted to use Solr for indexing things from the file system and the database.  In front of me lay some seriously sweet options for doing such:
  • DBIx::Class::Indexer::WebService::Solr - this allows you to have your database insertions *automatically* indexed/inserted into the Solr index.  Perfect for adding documents into a Solr index that are also going into your database.
  • Catalyst::Model::WebService::Solr - Search your Solr index via the webservice through a convenient Catalyst::Model class. $c->model('YourSolrModel')->search($terms) and away!
So, having implemented these and a sane schema for Solr to look at, I will have denzelfuckingwashington.com up and at 'em in no time.  I love perl.

]]> More CPAN Updates! tag:www.codedright.net,2010://1.98 2010-02-26T05:28:01Z 2010-02-26T05:29:25Z Devin http://www.codedright.net CPAN Updates tag:www.codedright.net,2010://1.97 2010-02-23T00:44:47Z 2010-02-24T22:47:51Z Devin http://www.codedright.net Catalyst::Plugin::FormValidator and Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader::Environment.  The latter needs yet another release to fix some minor things but the former seems to be in shape.  PLEASE TEST THESE as it's difficult to work on these things without feedback until something critical in someone's system breaks and my code is to blame :-)

Thanks in advance!
]]> Form::Sensible::Reflector::DBIC Released! tag:www.codedright.net,2010://1.96 2010-02-22T22:11:21Z 2010-02-23T00:43:48Z Devin http://www.codedright.net Form::Sensible::Reflector::DBIC is a reflector class that allows you to create your forms from your DBIC schema.  The idea is to define your form once, and make CRUD operations much much easier.  It needs more documentation and testing, but it's a really good start I think.  The base class is neat as well, Reflector allows you to create a "reflecting" class pretty easily.

Coming soon are some even cooler improvements on it.  Stay tuned!
]]> CPAN Updates! tag:www.codedright.net,2010://1.95 2010-02-19T20:59:10Z 2010-02-19T21:06:55Z Devin http://www.codedright.net Catalyst::Plugin::FormValidator.  It's a god awful thing, but people use it and it needs an overseer.  I am completely open to suggestions on improving this, so please email me dhoss [at] cpan.org.  Also, I have updated Catalyst::View::Email with new POD updates, better Makefile stuff, etc.  It is in a devel release right now, so please do cpan DHOSS/Catalyst-View-Email-0.25_01.

FEEDBACK FEEDBACK FEEDBACK!

Thanks all!

-dhoss

]]> Kung Fu and Real Life tag:www.codedright.net,2010://1.94 2010-02-16T10:32:36Z 2010-02-16T10:44:37Z Devin http://www.codedright.net
I am tasked daily with very challenging things.  Often times more challenging than I believe I can take care of at the time.  The fact of the matter is, I *have* to figure out a way to get the task done.  Either that, or someone else will, and I'm all of the sudden out of a job.  I also have to keep up on the latest technologies, not because it's required, but because it's smart, and gives me an edge in the field.  Combine this with school, $life, and kung fu, and you have a very formidable task ahead of you.  This is where I make a comparison between kung fu and my career (though green it and myself may be), further proved by me writing this at 4am on a school night.  This is not the first time I have had to sacrifice sleep to get a mission critical piece of work done.  And this will not be the last.  One's mental strength and make up must be that which can withstand the tribulations of mind numbingly bad code, test iterations that seem endless, and the 800lb gorilla on your back that is sleep deprivation.  

Anyway, this rant is pretty much done.  I just really had to convey the fact that mental clarity and strength in one form or another is absolutely pinnacle if you really want to be a competitive, well, anything.
]]> Let me just say this. tag:www.codedright.net,2010://1.93 2010-02-12T04:59:14Z 2010-02-12T05:14:28Z Devin http://www.codedright.net
I'm two semesters away from being done with college.  Probably forever, unless I get hired at a place that wants me to get some sort of master's program in software engineering.  Which, I personally feel would hurt me as the industry moves to fast to stop and go back to school, but i digress.  Anyway, I'm also holding down a few contracts doing web programming and system admin to certain degrees respectively.  I'm working around 30 hours a week, and going to school, 16 credits.  I'm at maximum capacity, and have very little room forever.  But I love it.  I could really do without school, but I know that once it's over, it's OVER, and that shiny little certificate will make a world of difference in many many places.  

I really stress out over things not getting done, not meeting expectations, and of course deadlines.  I've found that in order to keep any semblance of sanity, my scheduling, triage, and delegation skills must be performing at an absolute peak, and pristine condition at all times.  I am a perfectionist, and even more so a control freak.  I've extremely OCD, and I have battled demons concerning letting things go that are out of my control for ages.  I feel however, that no matter how stressful, I am truly blessed for these opportunities.  People have trusted me enough to give me money (and good money at that, especially for a college student) to do work on their systems, their bread and butter.  A daunting task, yes, but I know I have the hutzpah, know how, and tenacity to get this stuff done.  And done well. 

So I know this is a bit of a rant.  I know this is stereotypical life-blogging.  However I feel it is important to get this information out in the public, as I feel having insight into someone's life can really help give you a gauge as to what kind of quality work they will produce, etc.  Also, it's nice to bitch!

Take care all.  I look forward to the day I get to look back on all this and go, "Ahhhh. Full time job, no school, place to live, beer in fridge, I'm happy."
]]> Cpan Mirror Updated and Updating Daily tag:www.codedright.net,2010://1.92 2010-02-12T04:56:43Z 2010-02-12T04:57:53Z Devin http://www.codedright.net cpan.codedright.net is up and alive and well, and updating daily via cron. W00t!

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