There's no Place Like ::1

Great movie! Although you will not understand it if you didn’t watch the previous two movies about Bourne.

Do you think there are people like this in the real world?

On a side note, while browsing IMDB for this movie, I stumbled upon this girl. I have to watch one of her movies!

As it is well known, Google started to offer free IMAP access to their excellent GMail service. Of course they say that it take a while to roll out the new feature to every account, but I am (impatiently) waiting for more than a week now, and no signs of IMAP on my account.

Guess I’ll have to just wait…

Yesterday I bought a brand new wired Apple Aluminum Keyboard. I was on an Apple store in Lisbon and asked for the international version of this keyboard. To my suprise, they have just one in stock! I took the chance and bought it.

All I have to say is this: do you want to know girls? Buy this keyboard and show it to them. They will simply go crazy. It real looks better than the pictures. If you see one (and touch it) you will never want to go back to any keyboard.

I’m really not an apple fan boy (I hate them!), but I have to agree this product receives my thumbs up!

PS – On a side note, I’m yet to connect this keyboard to a Mac OS. It is working flawlessly on my Debian installation :) I was curious because in the keyboard box they said “Mac OS only”.

This will be the first of many articles about why mac os sucks for the everyday developer work…

I’m mainly working with Perl now, and I started to have problems as soon as I went to mac os. The modules I was used to work with started to fail on mac os. After some digging I found that every failure was related with some string format problem.

For example, I discovered that this expression sprintf '%f' 0.3 gives you the string 0,300000 and not the “expected” 0.300000. You can’t imagine how this thing breaks some Perl modules…

Then I realized that my locale settings were defined to C. Clearly that could be a problem. Google helped me a bit, and I found this website that has instructions on how to prepare your mac os to the correct locale and unicode settings.

A little bit of hacking later (I set my new locale to en_US.UTF-8), a new bash from macports, and sprintf started to behave “correctly”, and Perl modules no longer complain :-) Great success!

Finally an event about Catalyst. I will attend as a speaker at the Catalyst Days in Braga, on 2 and 3 of November. It will be the first time APPP does an event like this, and I’m really pround to be part of the crew.

You can find all the info you want on the course website. At the same time, it is the first conference I will be sponsoring log. Yah!