Using psql copy from DBIx::Class

I am loading up lots and lots of data, and need to track what is going on, but I really don’t need all of the stuff that DBIx::Class brings with it.  So I got a clue today and decided I was just going to use copy directly, picking off the file, gunzip-ping it, and using system to execute a psql copy call.

But, when I went to edit my code, I realized that I forgot about stuff like passwords and ports and hosts and all that junk that is nice to have in a portable perl script.

CPAN docs to the rescue! 

Washed out gray is the new black

I was working on Sakai help yesterday and decided that using CouchDB might be the way to go if I ever got some time to try to replace Sakai’s default help system. 

slow progress on the couchdb front

Some small, slow progress today, in and amongst other things. 

couchdb

Stumbled across couchdb thanks to the Sakai devel mailing list.  Looks cool, but I need to use it before I can get my head around what it might be able to do.  I think a good toy application that will also be useful is to code up Mike’s glossary using it.  That would be good because the limitation of a wiki is that when you want to add links to existing pages, you have to guess or whatnot, and anyway a wiki is not a glossary.  I just want a dynamic, editable, cross-linked glossary.  That isn’t hand-generated!

javascript thing

I can’t find the bookmark to the original source for this on my home computer, and anyway the bookmark that I thought worked on my work computer seems to be out of date.  So, here is the shell of how I start javascript programs.  Your mileage may vary.

Salasaga frustration

Super frustrating day trying to build Salasaga, with the kicker coming at about 3:30 when ./configure finally complained that it needs libgnome.  I don’t run gnome.  Most of the time that isn’t a problem.  How annoying that they don’t list Gnome as one of their project prerequisites.  I guess that is one of the evils of having Ubuntu become so popular—perhaps developers don’t even realize that running Linux on a desktop doesn’t “require” a gnome environment.

I think I’ll wait for the ebuild to come out.

concrete 5 looks like a winner

I’ve been looking for something for Brooke to use for a while now to bang out websites. I tried rolling my own, tried a wiki, tried setting up a blog (not in that order) but nothing worked. Concrete5 looks like “the bomb” as my old friend Bob used to say.  I used their demo (until it reset) and it looked like it could do what I think Brooke wants to do with a site (format, arrange, write content, get automatic listings/directories, etc).  The FAQ says it has community tools too.  Finally, I did a control-u and saw jquery, etc etc, so I’m downloading it and going to fire it up.  I just emerged drupal yesterday, but I got all bogged down in plugins and add ons and so on. If I can’t set it up fast, it isn’t going to get done.

We’ll see how C5 works out.