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Chained Searches: The Beauty of DBIx::Class And Catalyst

DBIx::Class and Catalyst have made my life much easier since I adopted them. I originally began my $work project with Class::DBI. The transition took some work but I’ve been happy as a moose in a brothel ever since. Aside from the occasional hairy query I don’t think I push the limits of either Cat or dbic very often. There is one feature, however, that I feel has really illustrated the enormous power these projects bring to the table.

DBIx::Class is my friend. My CGI controllers have gone from 1000 lines to 20 using more SQL, DBIx::Class and Catalyst.

Chained Searches: The Beauty of DBIx::Class And Catalyst

Summary: Despite all the ominous warnings of wily terrorists and imminent attacks, there has been neither a successful strike nor a close call in the United States since 9/11. The reasonable -- but rarely heard -- explanation is that there are no terrorists within the United States, and few have the means or the inclination to strike from abroad.

Foreign Affairs - Is There Still a Terrorist Threat? - John Mueller

Many Lebanese remain puzzled by the strategic thinking behind a month-long aerial campaign that killed approximately 1,287 people, injured 4,054, severed three quarters of the country's roads and bridges, smashed some fifty factories, and left an estimated 100,000 people homeless. But one goal was nearly achieved by the last days of fighting. Aside from the general infrastructural damage and occasional effectiveness at hitting probable rocket-launching sites, as well as at clobbering Hezbollah targets that ranged from its main offices in the Dahiya suburb to party-run village orphanages, clinics, and schools, the bombing did succeed in displacing some nine tenths of Lebanon's estimated 1.2 million Shias. Touching nearly every concentration of Shias in the country, the nine thousand air strikes emptied not just the Dahiya and the southern borderlands. Shia villagers even in the northern Bekaa Valley, fifty miles from the front, also found it wise to seek shelter in public schools, stadiums, and private homes across the Sunni Muslim, Christian, and Druze- dominated regions of the country.

This Israeli campaign appears to have had two purposes. One was psychological: underlining the fact that Hezbollah had failed to fulfill its role as a protector of even its own people, the Shia, let alone of Lebanon as a whole. The other was military: to clear the south Lebanon "fighting box" of civilians, so as to allow the Israeli army to make use of its heaviest antipersonnel weaponry without fear of bad publicity. In the very last hours of the war, Israel does seem to have saturated parts of the border landscape with cluster bombs. But either its army was given too little time and leeway or the technique was inefficient. The final twenty-four hours of fighting saw Hezbollah firing its single largest daily volley of rockets, some 250, at northern Israel. Many were shot from positions that had been repeatedly bombed, often within sight of Israel's border.

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Israel's loss of 116 soldiers was not large as major wars go. Hezbollah claims to have lost a smaller number of front-line fighters, although many more troops associated with Hezbollah may have been lost as well. It is difficult to judge, since rearguard reserves are typically dressed as civilians. Israel's claim to have destroyed up to 70 percent of the guerrillas' longer-range rocket launchers may also be correct. But the uncomfortable fact for Israel is that whereas Hezbollah killed two Israeli soldiers for every Israeli citizen it killed, Israel's ratio in inflicting "collateral damage" was, at best, exactly the reverse.

War Within War

Trader Vic's, opened in the Hilton Atlanta in 1976, brings the feel of the Pacific Islands to Atlanta with its exotic interior, Polynesian cuisine, and potent tropical cocktails. Guests can sip fruity concoctions and enjoy tantalizing tidbits in the Mai Tai Lounge or enter the dining room for a gourmet taste of the islands. Named for “Trader Vic” Bergeron, a world traveler and gourmand, the flagship restaurant opened in 1934 in San Francisco and has expanded to 21 restaurants worldwide.

Located on the lower level of the Hilton Atlanta, Trader Vic’s unique entryway festooned with tropical flora and tall wooden tikis welcomes guests into the captivating restaurant. Colorful glass buoys suspended from the bamboo rafters set the scene in the Mai Tai Lounge where guests can imbibe ceremonial Luau drinks served in festive communal bowls. Trader Vic’s, famous for the invention of the original Mai Tai, has an extensive list of island-inspired cocktails.

Trader Vics, the home of the Mai Tai is my new local bar. They encourage locals to hang out. You walk into this place and... its a 1965 vision of a 1930s Polynesia that never existed, built in 1976. They have kept it up marvelously. But they have not updated it. Its a surreal classic, and they have fruity drinks that can't be beat.

Band on Thursday, $4.50 Mai Tai specials.

Trader Vics Atlanta

AHAH is intended to be a much simpler way to do web development (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_development) than AJAX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29): "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML." Strictly speaking, AHAH can be considered a subset of AJAX, since (X)HTML is just a special kind of XML. However, it is a subset with some very specific and useful properties:

1. The lack of custom XML schemas dramatically reduces design time
2. AHAH can trivially reuse existing HTML pages, avoiding the need for a custom web service
3. All data transport is done via browser-friendly HTML, easing debugging and testing
4. The HTML is designed to be directly embedded in the page's DOM, eliminating the need for parsing
5. As HTML, designers can format it using CSS, rather than programmers having to do XSLT transforms
6. Processing is all done on the server, so the client-side programming is essentiall nil (moving opaque bits)

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Optimizing Queries with EXPLAIN

Indexes aren't voodoo, it turns out!

MySQL 5.1 Reference Manual :: 7.2.1 Optimizing Queries with EXPLAIN

A.5.7 Problems with Floating-Point Comparison

floating-point numbers cause confusion sometimes, because these numbers are not stored as exact values inside computer architecture. What one can see on the screen usually is not the exact value of the number.

Field types FLOAT, DOUBLE and DECIMAL are such.

You cannot just match a float variable from a perl DBI call to a FLOAT value from a field in MySQL. Matching will be totally inconsistent. This link explains how you actually do it.

MySQL Manual | A.5.7 Problems with Floating-Point Comparison

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