About

What is this?

It's the personal website of Jess Robinson aka "castaway" on a bunch of MUDs and IRC channels

Whats all the other stuff on desert-island.me.uk?

Yes, thats mine too. Its mostly old waffle about zMud and early perl projects, some of it in german. Except port 8000, that belongs to t'other 'alf.

Why is it all yellow and blue?

Because I like it, its the colours I have my xterms (under UDE, if you must know.)

What no pictures?

Loads, try under /bilder or port 5005. Or look at the ones linked from the blog.

Your blog doesn't have any comments!

Well spotted. Try email instead, or write your own and link.

Not trying to sell me anything?

Well if you insist, try looking at the books and things I linked on my amazon page

Other Mes

News

July 2010 - Docs clean up

Spent some time tidying up the blog software, which I was also using for turning the docs directory. Now it shows the table of contents file (if available) when an unknown file is requested, and supports sub-directories of content.

  1. Documentation - Table of Contents
  2. Documentation - TODO
  3. Contributions to other projects

February 2010 - EPO Grant

I was granted some monies by the Enlightened Perl Organisation to write some docs on using DBIx::Class for SQL hackers. These will be structured a little like the tutorial, but with emphasis placed on conversion from existing SQL usage.

  1. Wiki
  2. Introduction
  3. Database structure

March/April 2009 - Perl Signals

I've started searching for perl signals, see Looking for Perl Signals

  1. Perl Signals (Planet)
  2. Perl Noise (Planet)
  3. Perl Signals (Tumblr)

January 2009 - Blog

Finally replaced my now non-existant Stikkit-based blog with some code of my own, after failing to find anything as useful.

  1. Metablog
  2. Blog (RSS)

Currently working on:

DBIx::Class Tutorial

A Tutorial for DBIx::Class which helps the reader start from scratch accessing or creating a database to use with perl.

  1. Introduction
  2. Describing your database
  3. First steps in creating and retrieving database entries
  4. Expanding simple row objects into useful tools
  5. Joining, related data and chaining searches
  6. User and post statistics
  7. Appendix 1

Suggestions/corrections welcome, via email or IRC (irc.perl.org, #dbix-class)

DBIx::Class For SQL Hackers

Hints and help on how to use DBIx::Class if you already know SQL. Aka the answer to "How do I do this in DBIC?"

  1. DBIC For SQL Hackers - Table of Contents

On-Hold

Things I started but got distracted from / bored of..

Fileformats website

A website in Catalyst, with associated database, for storing normalised definitions of binary file formats. The motivation for this one is that various programming groups attempt to decipher file formats for video games and other things, and publish their own file spec pages on the web, usually in Wikis or similar. These are laid out in various ways, not exportable, etc.

  1. Svn repository

Document Binary.pm

Binary is a perl module for parsing information out of files, into perl structures. It contains a pre-defined set of functions for parsing oft-used values such as integers, or null-terminated strings. Users of the module can use these to build a complete file specifaction.

  1. Binary.pm

Completed

Release Pod::Inherit

Linking to inherited methods in your POD, automagically

  1. Pod::Inherit write-up
  2. Pod::Inherit POD
  3. Pod::Inherit on CPAN