I found a video clip of this on YouTube and converted it to an .aiff with Mix so I could use it as my default alert sound on OS X. Pretty hilarious.
God-Dammit-Walter.aiff
I practiced/worked out with my Sifu last night. It was pretty awesome. I'm quite quite bruised, and got some good sparring technique in. It's pretty amazing working with someone so fast and so versed in every aspect of this martial art. He definitely had a few times he could have demolished me, and we both knew it.
A lot was learned in a relatively short time (1.5 hours or so, compared to the 7 months I've been training).
I made it!
I'm in better shape than I thought. I was definitely a bit gassed, but I wasn't gasping for breath desperately trying to get my wind again. I've got a few adjustments here and there to make, but all in all, I felt pretty good. I think this will go really well. I got complimented on my horse stance by both Sifu Manning and another student instructor, so that really was a boost.
Anyway, I've gotta go write my stuff down before I forget it. Mo' lata.
Yes, my domain has a typo. I don't care.
I've figured out how to use Catalyst::Plugin::Params::Nested, jQuery, and DBIx::Class's ->populate method to create an arbitrary number of records (in this case, workout exercises). So hopefully, I'm going to have a relatively well optimized web application up within the next week or so. It's wonderful such robustness can be achieved with a little ingenuity (not so much on my part, when I figure things out it mainly just puts me on par with "good" programming :-)
Updates coming!
Wow. What an amazing turn of events. 7~ months ago I was struggling to get a good hook stance down. Now, I'm preparing myself for my first dip into the vast ocean that is student instructordom.
I'm pretty nervous. I'm uptight, it's been a really insane end of the semester, with a lot of things that SHOULDN'T have EVER happened, but I've got family, friends, and kung fu to fall back on always. I'm going to go in with an open mind and soak up all I can, and rely on the fact that I've been training physically very hard and should be in good enough condition for this.
We'll find out.
I'll be writing more about this as it goes on. I haven't much time to write right now, but I'll be writing more later.
The title of this post is something my Great Aunt Shirley said to my mother at the rosary for my Great Uncle Leo. This phrase was uttered in reply to my mom saying that, "they say behind every great man is a great woman." My Aunt didn't miss a beat. In the midst of all her pain, all her grieving, and all her exhaustion, she was still able to crack this joke.
This past weekend was my Great Uncle Leo's funeral. I heard story after story about how much of an amazing person he was. I always knew he was a very kind, a very driven, and a very intelligent man, but I was completely unaware of the magnitude of his graciousness, and the impact he had on people. The pure love he showed all of his family and friends. I can't, and will not attempt to, put into this paltry blog post how special of a person he was. His love trickled down through his family and generation after generation, and each person he touched was a little better for having known him.
I can't say enough about how wonderful of a man he was, and what he meant to all of us. He inspired my brother and I to get through college, and not to take life too seriously.
I can only hope to pay it forward by acting in a manner that would make him proud, and really looking at the world in a friendly light and treasuring those that I love so much.
God bless, Uncle Leo. You are the giant's shoulders that people stand on.
Leo Francis Milan - April 15th, 1930 - April 19th, 2010
Upon launching (and tweaking) dfw, I learned a great deal about Solr and it's various and assorted CPAN modules supporting its use with Catalyst. Solr is fairly nice, but I'm not entirely convinced it's worth the maintenance hassle unless you have a large volume of requests coming in for your search data. The small things that I got hung up on weren't really worth the hassle for a small, low traffic site like Denzel. I'm still not a *huge* fan of hitting the database per search, so I looked into a few other solutions.
Sphinx looks pretty neat. It's written in C, and has native support for MySQL indexing (you point the mysql client at the sphinx mysql emulator, if that's the proper term, and you can make SELECT *... statements just as you would connected to a typical mysqld). This is really cool, since you could (potentially, this is all untested and pure theory) setup a DBIx::Class resultset/schema based on your search data (or just have a separate schema that connects to the sphinx instance) and do searches from there. However, having recently played with Data::SearchEngine, I think it would be much cooler to write a subclass of Data::SearchEngine that does the search operations on your data set for you. You get cool things like faceting, serialization, and an elapsed time count. On top of that, it would be pretty trivial to wrap it in a Catalyst::Model so people that like to do $c->model('Sphinx') can do so.
Anyway, this is a rather scatterbrained post of mine I wanted to get out of my scatterbrained head before I forgot about it. Cold Hard Code just launched CodePeek which has some good examples of the aforementioned modules, most of which are in use in production code.
So I've been working on my "play" site for a couple months now, and since it's incarnation, have wanted to use Solr for indexing things from the file system and the database. In front of me lay some seriously sweet options for doing such:
- DBIx::Class::Indexer::WebService::Solr - this allows you to have your database insertions *automatically* indexed/inserted into the Solr index. Perfect for adding documents into a Solr index that are also going into your database.
- Catalyst::Model::WebService::Solr - Search your Solr index via the webservice through a convenient Catalyst::Model class. $c->model('YourSolrModel')->search($terms) and away!
I have released, yet again, Catalyst::Plugin::FormValidator, Catalyst::View::Email, and Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader::Environment. The usual request of test and feedback is in order here. Thanks!
Okay, so I've been doing a good deal of tire kicking to update a bunch of modules using NEXT with MRO::Compat. These include Catalyst::Plugin::FormValidator and Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader::Environment. The latter needs yet another release to fix some minor things but the former seems to be in shape. PLEASE TEST THESE as it's difficult to work on these things without feedback until something critical in someone's system breaks and my code is to blame :-)
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!
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