Ramble On

Tesseract is a program that does OCR – optical character recognition. The goal is to take a picture of text and transform it into text; e.g. you scan a page of a book and it will turn it into editable text. Note, Tesseract does not do layout analysis so a two column layout might confuse [...]

Math::Primality is my one and only CPAN module, a result of my Google Summer of Code work almost two years ago. I was surprised about 10 months ago to get an email requesting features – I can’t believe someone is actually using this stuff! Well, I’ve put it off for a while so this weekend [...]

I finally got `perlbrew` installed. It’s a utility like `rvm` that allows you to manage multiple installations of perl without clobbering your system files. I followed the instructions from here: http://www.pythian.com/news/19971/guerilla-perl-installations/ 1) Run curl -L http://xrl.us/perlbrewinstall | bash Just a fancy way of getting the install script and running it. 2) Run /Users/bob/perl5/perlbrew/bin/perlbrew init Your [...]

For my previous job I needed to setup a development environment on my mac which required some packages like PostgreSQL, ImageMagick, and some other packages. I started using MacPorts and eventually found a GUI for it called Porticus. I mostly used the command line `port` but every now and then Porticus was easier to manage. [...]

I was given a free copy of Codeulate Screencasts’ “Vim for Rails Developers“.  The screencast normally costs $9 US and lasts about 36 minutes.  I use Vim (MacVIM) everyday for a number of hours at work and am coding in Rails more and more (through work and other projects).  If you are even thinking about [...]

About You Have you participated in Google Summer of Code before?: Yes Detail your previous GSoC experience Last year I worked with The Perl Foundation under Jonathan Leto to develop a CPAN module Math::Primality (github.com/bubaflub/math–primality).  The project was challenging but Jonathan was extremely helpful and patient and could always point me in the right direction. [...]

Icebreakers Use one of the following questions to open up discussion.  (If you have first-time guests, be sure to have people give their names as they answer the icebreaker question.) What did you think of the service on Sunday?  How do you maintain a relationship with Jesus? Our Study:  Abide With Me “The Christian movement [...]

Yeah, i have a lame blog.  And yes, it currently uses the default theme.  That’ll be changed when i get around to it.