Today was fairly active for me in the mobile app space. I found a new game Plague Inc [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miniclip.plagueinc], a new Android developer tools demo app DevAppsDirect [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inappsquared.devappsdirect] and an update of my iOS app DayToDay [https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore....
I watched a presentation from linux.conf.au [http://linux.conf.au/] by Paul Fenwich (@pjf) titled The Perl Renaissance [http://lanyrd.com/2013/linuxconfau/szzxt/]. He discussed some of the tools that have brought about the Perl renaissance. He pointed out a number of the new Perl tools that I have discovered since I have been writing Perl again: meta::cpan...
I have been using The Grinder [http://grinder.sourceforge.net/] to load test a network application I am writing at work. It is easy to set up and does it's job well. It also produces useful statistics that I had been converting to csv and importing into spreadsheets to analyze. Today, I came across Grinder Analyzer [http://track.sourceforge.net/analyzer.html]...
I decided I should write about my side projects. I came up with three good reasons why this would be beneficial: 1. motivation - writing about my projects makes me want to work on them 2. documentation - side projects can be put aside for long periods 3. ... 4. profit! (sorry) 5. exploration - the blog itself allows me to experiment with...