Welcome to the first in our series of interviews with people in the
Infinity community. Approximately monthly, we’ll introduce you to a
member of the Infinity team, an Infinity partner, or general person of
interest. Our first interview is with our own Yanick Champoux.
Meet Yanick. A damn fine man. A programmer extraordinaire. A comic
book writer. He is a native of Montréal currently living in Ottawa,
Canada. The man contains multitudes.
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Welcome to the second installment of our
Bread::Board tutorials. In
the previous article, we've
covered what type of situation calls for Bread::Board, and we had a
high-level overview of how to use it. In this installment, we'll begin
to dig deeper into the inner workings of the framework. More
specifically, we'll look beyond the DSL we used thus far for our
examples, and learn how to manually create the underlying objects of a
Bread::Board application.
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Perl 6 will be ready for production in 2015,
according to Perl creator Larry Wall. At least, that's what he said
during
his FOSDEM 2015 talk.
This news reminded me that it has been quite a while since I tried
anything interesting with Perl 6. I decided to spend my weekend
installing and playing with Rakudo, the primary
Perl 6 implementation.
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Lately I've been wanting to experiment a little more with CSS
animations. I already use them for small effects, but to really get to
know something, I need a project. A while back I was watching one of
my favorite cartoons, Archer, and as the title sequence was rolling I
realized, "this would make an awesome CSS animation project!"
Whenever you try to recreate something, it's best to study the
original. A quick search led me to
Art of the Title a site dedicated to
title sequences. Lucky for me, they have the
Archer title sequence
posted for our viewing pleasure. Have a look at it to see the sequence
I'm building towards.
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The recent release of Django 1.7
comes with built-in support for database migrations. In previous
versions of Django, the popular way to manage migrations was a
third-party tool called South. Thanks to
a successful
Kickstarter
project, the creator of South worked to build support for migrations
into Django 1.7.
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I originally bought my iPad back when tablets were becoming a fad. I
had expected to use it for everything from reading ebooks to playing
elaborate new games. But no, it has been sitting idle, collecting
dust, for years. Even the promise of a shared, coffee-table web
browser has fallen flat. Whenever there's a task to be done, I instead
reach for my laptop or my phone. After all, as phones get larger and
more capable, and laptops get lighter and extend their battery life,
the sweet spot that tablets offer gets squeezed out from both above
and below. So for the past year or so, my usage has been limited to
ordering food online with friends, passing the iPad down the couch.
But now I've finally figured out the perfect job for it. I've mounted
it right next to my front door. My previously-unused iPad now serves
as a dashboard and control panel for my apartment.
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I remember smiling to myself when my granddaughter asked me to “pause”
while reading her a bedtime story. To her, the language was
appropriate. She has only known a world where you have the power to
“pause” by simply pushing a button.
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Bread::Board. It has one
hoary hairy heck of a scary reputation.
But while it's not totally undeserved—Inversion of Control as a
concept tends even at its best to, well, turn one's mind inside-out
like a sock—the truth is much less daunting than the hype would have
you think.
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Nancy is a lightweight framework for building
HTTP-based services on .NET and Mono. The goal of the framework is to
stay out of the way as much as possible and provide a
"super-duper-happy-path"
to all interactions. This approach to sensible defaults and
conventions means that it is very easy to write a stand-alone
self-hosted web site or API that runs as a desktop application. In
this post, I'm going to discuss the equivalent happy-path for
deploying such an application as a Windows Service.
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The recent disclosure of a critical security flaw in the widely used
bash command-line shell for Unix operating systems sent many
technology professionals scrambling to update their systems. We were
certainly among them.
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