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2009年05月03日

YAPC::Asia 2008 photo slideshow

YAPC::Asia 2008 in Tokyo was fun, and I hope to be able to go to YAPC::Asia 2009 again, although the chance for that isn't so good, as I'm already taking a two-week holiday in Japan this May. But I want to show you photos I took at YAPC::Asia 2008, to encourage you to go as well. Really, it's quite an experience!

You can see the photo set on Flickr or directly here in the embedded slideshow.

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2009年05月02日

Perlbal article

As spotted by Korean Perl hacker @saillinux, there is an article called "The Juggler: Scaling your website with the Perlbal web server" about the reverse proxy load balancer and web server Perlbal in PDF format; it was published by Linux Magazine in November 2007.

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MacBook HDD crash

Last weekend my MacBook's hard disk drive crashed to the point where the MacBook didn't recognize it on startup. Thankfully I had backups, although they were based on rsync of most of my home directory, not on Mac OS X's own Time Machine. So after buying a new and bigger (320 GB) HDD, I had to reinstall all applications. The whole process of getting everything back as it was only took half a day, so it wasn't too bad. It was also good to start from a clean system, since a lot of unnecessary things had accumulated over the years.

For example, I don't use a package manager such as Fink or MacPorts anymore; so far I was able to either compile everything myself or use installers. I also took the opportunity to finally switch to perl 5.10 as my main perl. Now I'm also using Time Machine, as several people have recommended it because of its painless backup and restore process. I backup to a 2.5" 500 GB USB HDD, but I also still use rsync to back up parts of my home directory to two other Macs that are in two different locations.

The MacBook seems more quiet now and feels faster, and it's certainly nice to have the extra space. And it's good to know that dealing with a HDD crash isn't as traumatic as I had thought it would be.

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YAPC::Asia 2009 tentative dates

The dates for YAPC::Asia 2009 in Tokyo have been tentatively announced: the pre-event event will be on the 9th September; the actual YAPC will be on the 10th-11th September. I guess Tokyo will be still pretty hot in early September...

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2009年05月01日

YAPC::EU 2009 schedule announced

That was impressively fast; only hours after the YAPC::EU 2009 talk submission deadline, the schedule has been announced.

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I left use.perl

I have decided not to post, or even cross-post, to use.perl anymore. You can read my reasons for that in my last journal post over there.

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