When trying to publish my last entry via MacJournal I got the following error Application failed during request deserialization: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 85, column 137, byte 2837 at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser.pm line 187 Damn Perl error! Damn MacJournal! I would really love to know where the problem is. Perl (or XML::Parser) is attempting to [...]

I have the last day at work tomorrow, before I embark on a long holiday. – I have my mailbox under control – I am on top of my RSS feeds – I am almost through my backlog of podcasts – I have no critical work related tasks hanging over my head – I am [...]

I have just uploaded Workflow release 0.32_7 to CPAN. The first test reports on 0.32_6 are indicating all passes – so we move on. The next release is for evaluation and test of some patches from Ivan, which makes it possible to group workflow actions. Hopefully this will be the last functionality release before we [...]

I have just uploaded Workflow release 0.32_6 to CPAN. This release contains a patch from a fellow Workflow user, Robert Stockdale. He has just recently joined the small Workflow team. I am already looking into the next release as I have received new patches from an Ivan Paponov, who also happens to be using Workflow. [...]

At the YAPC::Europe 2008 in Copenhagen I acquired two books – Learning Python, 3rd. Edition, ISBN 978-0-596-51398-6 – Intellectual Property and Open Source, ISBN 978-0-596-51796-0 I skimmed the later and started reading the Python book. And a funny thing which struck me. Both books have explicit mentions of Perl, my favorite language. The first book [...]

My co-worker did some manual XML transformation a long time ago in Perl. We use this particular piece of code a lot and the number of time it is run everyday is very high. The code has one comment “the wrong way to parse xml – but faster!” The XML we always receive look like [...]

My blogging seems to be slowing down and it seems that micro-blogging using twitter seems to take much of my focus from blogging. So after having moved my blog from use.perl.org to LiveJournal I have not blogged as much as I would like. Twitter is cool and it probably acts as a filter for blog [...]

Some weeks back I attended BarCampCopenhagen, this was my first BarCamp. I have been thinking a lot about how to blog about this, without being a total asshole. The event was a Saturday and the first snow had just arrived. It was really cold and I had to bike across Copenhagen in order to get [...]

During the development phase of the ‘Validation’ project (see my earlier evaluation). We got approached by another project group (well the project manager) and they wanted us to adopt some changes related to their project. We were in the midst of our testing phase, so our project manager turned them down. So it was decided [...]