Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client-side.

So hot right now...

flot - Google Code

FuseOverAmazon

FUSE filesystem backed by Amazon S3
Overview

s3fs is a fuse filesystem that allows you to mount an Amazon S3 bucket as a local filesystem. It stores files "natively" in S3 (i.e., you can use other programs to access the same files). Maximum file size=5G.

Its quite useful and stable, e.g., can be used to easily copy daily backup tarballs to s3.

To use it:

1. get an amazon s3 account!
2. download the source, compile it (I've used fc5/ppc and f7/i386) and slap the binary in, say, /usr/bin/s3fs
3. do this:

/usr/bin/s3fs mybucket -o accessKeyId=aaa -o secretAccessKey=bbb /mnt

That's it! the contents of your amazon bucket "mybucket" should now be accessible read/write in /mnt

FuseOverAmazon - s3fs - Google Code

Which would be a good way of using Template::Toolkit together with:

* Supporting look-and-feel, having different sets of templates that can inherit from each other, like, the theme A has all the templates, the theme B modifies some templates of the theme A and theme C modifies some templates of the Theme B.
* Supporting inline gettext or any other way of translating the text inside the templates, I mean, I don't want to have the complete set of themes for all the languages, but I do want to have a simple gettext-like infra-structure to translate the application, but I want that integrated with TT.

Template::Toolkit, look-and-feel and internationalization - Perlmonks

I played with Catalyst::Plugin::I18N today to test returning text according to the user's language. This is called internationalization (I18N) or localization (L10N). I prefer the term localization when customizing output for users for this (and internationalization for storing multi-lingual data in the backend) but the definition is subject to debate and both are used. It seems there are two stages to L10N: locale detection and the localization.

Localization / Internationalization with Catalyst

Day 10 - The Chained Dispatch Type

A complete example of how to use Catalyst::DispatchType::Chained.
A basic introduction to Chained actions with Catalyst.

Frequently when building web applications there is a chain of dependency along the url path. That is, the controller dispatch logic has a close relationship to the data you want to draw from the model. Chained dispatch types provide an easy way to encapsulate this logic within your Catalyst controllers.

This Advent calendar entry is associated with a complete example application which shows how to use chained actions to provide this logic. The example application is available from the Catalyst subversion repository by issuing the following command:

$ svn co http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/Catalyst/trunk/examples/ChainedEg

Please get a copy of this code before you proceed. The application is a very simple proof-of-concept application which will work with a basic Catalyst. There is no model, and the view is handled in the Root controller's end action (i.e. Controller::Root->end).

As an interesting aside, with appropriate introspection, by using Class::Inspector for example, it would be relatively straightforward to develop a custom view based on this end action to provide skeleton output during application development. For instance, you might want to use this in a situation where you have a pre-existing model but are not yet able to provide data for it.

Catalyst Chained Dispatch Type (for localization) - Catalyst Advent Calendar - Day 10

"We � found that your usage over the past 30 days exceeded 10 Gigabytes. � This level of usage is so extraordinarily high that it could only have been attained by activities, such as streaming and/or downloading movies and video, prohibited by the terms and conditions," Verizon said in a terse letter.

Hope I don't get hit with this.

Verizon Limits Its "Unlimited" Wireless Broadband Service

Day 18 - I18N

Catalyst I18N and L10N using Catalyst::Plugin::I18N
Introduction

The task is fairly simple:

* Allow the user to specify a language of choice,
* Replace all messages with function calls to a translation module,
* Write translations for every language you want.

The last part (L10N) should be very simple (using a graphical PO editor is preferred) in order to allow non-technical people to localise your software.

Catalyst Internationalization - Catalyst Advent Calendar - Day 18

Shorpy.com is the 100-year-old photography blog that brings our ancestors back, at least to the desktop. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a boy who worked in an Alabama coal mine near the turn of the century.

I saw this on boingboing a while back and subscribed to the RSS feed. Every day some unique images arrive in my Bloglines that bring the past back to life. There are some really striking images, the women workers of WW2 in particular and the early 20th century industrial stuff.

I really dig this photoblog. You can order large size prints, too. I've got like a dozen picked out for when I get some extra money to waste.

Shorpy Historical Photographs | The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog

Who remembers the classic PC game 'Pirates!' ?

This is like the ship battles in that game, but flash. Super fun.

Treasure of Cutlass Reef - Presented by AddictingGames

I haven’t seen Family Guy all that much, but whenever I do I am pretty surprised that it’s allowed on the airwaves right there during prime time on broadcast TV (not cable). It’s a cartoon comedy that packs more gags per minute about race, sex, incest, bestiality, etc. than any other show I can think of. (It may have been beaten by South Park and a dozen others for all I know, but I can’t think of anything that comes close on broadcast TV.) Its characters include a father whose cartoon chin is drawn as a pair of testicles, a masochistic toddler, and a talking dog who, I believe, is both homosexual and an alcoholic. Let me put it this way: if you have or had a mother, any sort of mother, it is the kind of show you would not dare watch while sitting beside her.

I don't really like this link, except for the quote. hhahahaha

Why Is Family Guy Okay When Imus Wasnt? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog