Base58 is an alternative to Base64 that is growing in popularity for case-sensitive encodings due to several characteristics including multi-protocol-safety and human-readability. It is used by Flickr, Bitcoin, and now Grokbase. The general characteristics of Base58 are that it uses … Continue reading
The other day on Hacker News, there was a good discussion of Avdi Grimm‘s talk on how to write Confident Code given at this year’s Ruby Midwest. He covers four areas: gather input, perform work, deliver results and handle failure. … Continue reading
The Perl community knows that Moose is awesome as evidenced by the amount of talks at YAPC and the number of times it is mentioned on blog articles and discussion boards. However, to me, what often seems to get lost … Continue reading
One of the well-touted advantages of living in Silicon Valley is that it is a crucible of talent. Along with colleagues, conferences and unconferences, there are many regular user groups in the valley, of which I’ve attended several. This past … Continue reading