Doug Treder http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/ en-us Copyright 2008 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:31:23 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Discuss the Moose Presentation!

Hi everyone,


thanks for attending my talk on Moose last night at the Seattle Perl Users Group.   It was great to have so many smart people together to discuss it.


The slides are online and released CC on my website:    http://www.dynamicacademy.net


There's PDF and HTML versions available - if you would like the Keynote originals, let me know separately and I'll send you the most up-to-date version.


Moose is under very active development by several fabulous developers, so bugs are fixed quickly, new features are still being added, and discussion is welcome.  I'd highly recommend subscribing to http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.moose today.   They also welcome questions and design suggestions, and it's a really friendly group.


If' you'd like to keep reading and learning about Moose and metaclass theory (after joining the newsgroup), the last few slides have links for additional reading, which I'll repeat here:


Moose

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose/lib/Moose.pm

Class::MOP

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-MOP/lib/Class/MOP.pm

Cookbook WTF

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose/lib/Moose/Cookbook/WTF.pod

Cookbook FAQ

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose/lib/Moose/Cookbook/FAQ.pod


More theory:

Super and Inner (Method Modifiers)

http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/oopsla04-gff.pdf

Putting Metaclasses to Work

http://www.amazon.com/Putting-Metaclasses-Work-Ira-Forman/dp/0201433052

Uniform Metaclass Composition

http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/Papers/Duca05ySafeMetaclassTrait.pdf

Safe Metaclass Programming

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/37617.html


More Moose Articles and Presentations

http://www.iinteractive.com/moose/

Moose As Necessary Dependency

http://blog.jrock.us/articles/Myth:%20Moose%20is%20an%20unnecessary%20dependency.pod

Writing Read-Eval-Print Loop(Moose Tutorial)

http://chainsawblues.vox.com/library/post/a-perl-read-excute-print-loop-repl.html


Moose Extensions

http://search.cpan.org/search?query=MooseX&mode=all

MooseX::Getopt

http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-Getopt/lib/MooseX/Getopt.pm

MooseX::Params::Validate

http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-Params-Validate/

MooseX::StrictConstructor

http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-StrictConstructor/

MooseX::Storage

http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-Storage/



Thanks also to Marchex for hosting and the snacks!  It's a great location for getting together.


Doug Treder

http://dynamicacademy.net

http://imdb.com


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]]> http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2008/02/happy-new-year.html http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2008/02/happy-new-year.html Sat, 02 Feb 2008 13:59:02 -0800 Why I Am Opposed to the War NPR all day. No commercials, weather, traffic or breaks. The voice is a bit slow and measured, but the content pokes you in the chest, over and over. This guy is making a lot of sense, I think. He's talking about peace, war, about the poor, about what America should be. And I'm surprised again when I hear "Vietnam" just one too many times - wait, this must be a recording - and realize that it is Dr. ML King's birthday, and a man who died almost 40 years ago has words that sound like he's talking about our country today.
"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
Radical Love Gets a Holiday: how Reagan reluctantly signed the MLK holiday into law.

In 6th grade, when this discussion was going on in the news, my English teacher had the unwise idea to have the class debate on whether MLK deserved a federal holiday - this was a school with a racial mix about 60/40 black/white, and a black teacher. Now this was a very sweet woman with good intentions, but she let the class decide for themselves where to sit, so of course every kid went over to the "pro" side except a fat kid who just didn't move fast enough - and me. I didn't know very much about Dr King, and I didn't know that I didn't know very much - I'd heard women couldn't vote once too - was he involved in that? Embarrassingly I decided to stay put just out of stubbornness - heck somebody had to argue the "con" side, and I never stepped away from a challenge. So, I knew none of the facts; the peer pressure of the world was against me; and I was morally wrong too.

I gave up in 5 minutes, the teacher relented, and we all pushed our desks back together again. And I'm here 25 years later to let everybody know I was dumb and wrong. In the real world, presidents don't often apologize, whether 2 years or 20 years later. And forgiveness isn't as easy to come by.

Listen. Or read. ]]> http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2008/01/why-i-am-opposed-to-the-war.html http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2008/01/why-i-am-opposed-to-the-war.html Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:19:57 -0800 Why Nancy Gets Presents the reason Nancy gets great presents every year is she is so appreciative. This one is the ice cream maker, but she doesn't even know that yet.

]]> http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2008/01/why-nancy-gets-presents.html http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2008/01/why-nancy-gets-presents.html christmas nancy Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:20:04 -0800 Upgrade Time! I've been meaning to change my blogging habits for a long time. The kids are growing up so fast, and writing down their exploits daily (along with taking pictures) seems like a good way to hold onto some of those memories. In order to get there though I needed to clear away some of the obstacles : the Movable Type software was aging; the disk was full; and handling images was just too hard. I mean it's easy enough to resize them, easy enough to upload them; easy enough to cut out thumbnails; and easy enough to write a link tag. But doing each of those easy things over and over again screams out for automation - and it just takes too much time for a daily task. I need the tools to get out of the way.

So, I took the time today to upgrade the software (boy, MT4 still has a lot of rough edges : the upgrade broke all the blogs even without touching the templates or stylesheets, until I exported and reimported them again - which is now a routine step with MT upgrades), and found a nice blogging client software (ecto) that does the image resizing automatically. Everybody's blogs are upgraded (some of you have a new look - hope you like it, but you can change it) and I also added one for Barb as a Xmas present.

So now I have no excuses. Writing skills are a bit rusty, and I'm still pretty inhibited about blathering on every day, but I'm going to try. Here's a picture just in case the witing gets really boring : me as a Jedi with Batman and Dick Grayson (that's Robin's mild mannered alter ego, aka Elijah, as he's out of costume) on Halloween.

]]> http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2007/12/upgrade-time.html http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2007/12/upgrade-time.html elijah finnegan website Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:27:33 -0800 My Family Nancy and Elijah. Looks like they're each on different drugs.

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]]> http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2007/12/santas-little-helpers.html http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2007/12/santas-little-helpers.html christmas finnegan rocky santa Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:41:30 -0800 Test Entry Let's see how this works.dtreder.jpg

]]> http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2007/12/test-entry.html http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2007/12/test-entry.html test Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:06:39 -0800 Mont St Michel Sundial We visited Mont St Michel last spring. We stayed at a farm within a mile of the Mont and I watched a sunrise and sunset with a view of the Mont.
Here's some aerial photography of creating the world's most impressive sundial.

]]> http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2007/04/mont-st-michel-sundial.html http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2007/04/mont-st-michel-sundial.html Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:21:07 -0800 The Troll The troll is near our house in Fremont.




He's not so tough.


Hanging out.


I think she fits right in here in Seattle. Wish we could get Monica to move here!


Hey, he took my car!

]]> http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2007/03/the-troll.html http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2007/03/the-troll.html Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:50:48 -0800 Biking to Gas Works Continued from our story on Finn's blog about biking in Seattle with Monica...


Gas Works Park was our first stop. The park is on the north edge of Lake Union and has a big hill upon which you can look across the lake to see downtown and the Space Needle.


The sundial is on top of the big hill.


Hmm, it's March 18th...


Let's read the instructions.


Shadow points towards 2..


add 22 minutes - it's 2:22! Right on.


You can see downtown from here.


The gasworks.


]]> http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2007/03/biking-to-gas-works.html http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2007/03/biking-to-gas-works.html Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:44:49 -0800 Pig and Bug This is a good time to announce I've transitioned to work at IMDb, the Internet Movie Database. It's a part of Amazon.com, and in the same buildings. Before coming here I wouldn't have thought it worth mentioning; I've transitioned departments before. But IMDb is actually very different and the people are consistently the nicest I've ever worked with at Amazon. The other day an advertising salesperson came in and said excitedly "I need 6 action heroes of the 1980's: I've got Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis..." We named 3 more. And that was work related!

Appropriately, I have a little movie story. Last week we were at the mall and Finn saw this movie poster (courtesy IMDb) and shouted out the title for us : "Pig .... and Bug".


And that's all you really need to know about this movie, I think.

]]> http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2006/12/pig-and-bug-1.html http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2006/12/pig-and-bug-1.html Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:57:59 -0800 Top Ten Moments in Grenade's Life
  • Having a beer (root) while hanging out with Doug while Nancy is at the DMZ. Grenade was trying to see if I was boyfriend material for his new owner.

  • After bedtime, it's dark: we can only hear Grenade, not see him. Lap-lap-lap-lap he takes an enormous drink of water for what seems like minutes, then thump-thump-thump-thump waddle down the hall towards the bedroom. Doug whispers a prediction: "he's gonna burp - " BRAAAAAAAAP.

  • Learning to roll over and shake hands. He already knew twirl before he ever came to us.

  • Jogging with Nancy and getting an entire slice of Wonder bread to eat afterwards.

  • Hiking up Cougar mountain. Grenade hikes well but also rides some of the way in Nancy's warm coat.

  • Wandering around the room trying every possible pillow, consistently finding the highest, softest, fluffiest set of pillows in the entire house. This dog could be the corporate buyer for Bed Bath and Beyond.

  • Grenade is resting on some pillows, then inexplicably gets up and wanders silently away. A moment later we smell the most godawful dogfart ever. Doug (in a Texan drawl) : "Thuhat's why thay cahll me Gruhnayde!"

  • Getting left on the tarmac in Seattle when we travelled to Michigan. Grenade took his own flight and arrived six hours late.

  • Sitting in the barbershop, the old woman sitting next to him says "I'm a pet psychic, and I'm sensing that your dog was a cat in a former life." Oh, really? That explains a lot.

  • Grenade received a badge and email alias for working at Amazon back in the early days. He once wandered into the Amazon datacenter and took a dump next to the new database machines (he was being considerate, trying to avoid the carpeted area) causing an extremely funny entry in the operator's logs that day...



    and the top moment in Grenade's life:

  • Wandering from the streets onto Camp Hialeah Army Post in Pusan, South Korea, which just happened to have the only K-9 unit for hundreds of miles, and a new lieutenant looking for a friend. This was one lucky dog.

    ]]> http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2006/10/top-ten-moments-in-grenades-li.html http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2006/10/top-ten-moments-in-grenades-li.html Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:48:52 -0800 Tacos and Burritos Finn is enjoying a fresh corn tortilla with butter at Rosita's, near Greenlake. Sorry about the color in this photo - I think Finn managed to grease up the cell phone, and the light is really bright through the window.









    ]]>     http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2006/08/tacos-and-burritos.html http://www.trederfamily.com/doug/2006/08/tacos-and-burritos.html Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:14:47 -0800     Bouncy Castles After soccer practice, we went over to try the Bouncy Castles that the soccer arena has set up. There's a moonwalk, a big slide, and a sort of castle/obstacle course. These other kids are also in his soccer class.












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