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Devel::NYTProf is THE perl profiler

Google has to realize that Devel::NYTProf is THE perl profiler. The best, I think, is just to quote Ranguard:

"So, I'd like to talk about Perl profiling, or even profiling Perl. Devel::NYTProf doesn't make the claim that it is THE Perl profiler, but it really does seem to be the best profiler for Perl that is currently available."

OK, I'm a fan. What a voice !

Maybe I'm the last to discover Florence and the Machine (It looks like they have been at the top of the UK charts a few months ago) but in case you don't know, go listen now ! The whole album is just great.

My big news to start 2010, I'm moving to San Francisco

After five years working at the Paris office, I'm moving to San Francisco. I'll still work at Six Apart, still on TypePad, but not remotely anymore. I had the chance to fly to San Francisco a number of times before. All stays cumulated, I think I already spent six months in the city, I'm not landing to an unknown territory, but still, I think it'll be a great adventure. I can't wait to be on the plane because "closing" my Parisian life is a lot of paperwork and is not very exciting. In the real world, you can't zip all your life and upload it on the other side of the planet in a few seconds, too bad. Anyway, I'm very excited by this new experience, and I'm looking forward to see my san franciscan friends and coworkers again ! 

I'm not sure about the move date yet, Visa process in progress, stay tuned.

Playing With Tokyo Cabinet

I'm still playing with RDF, and while I'm at it, I'm now experimenting with Tokyo Cabinet and Tokyo Tyrant.

I rewrote my experimental triplestore using the Mikio Hirabayashi's software. Right now, I've got the Subjects, the Predicats, and the Literals stored in a Tokyo Cabinet Hash, the Triplets in a Tokyo Cabinet Table, and my abstract Node object (which is basically a set of Triplet) in Memcached.

I tried Tokyo Cabinet mostly because of the benchmarks, and indeed, I confirm, it's fast !

But also because I don't need all the features of a traditional RDBMS, and it really feels good to get rid of this complexity.

Nice Sunday afternoon hacking.

Update your feeds !

I just moved my blog from MT to TypePad. The feeds have moved too, you should subscribe again if you want to follow me:

• This blog feed

• The photoblog feed

The design is very simple for now, I'll play with the custom CSS feature in the next few days.

Playing with RDF

Rainy week-end in Paris, the sun waits until Sunday afternoon to show up, anyway I had good time hacking with perl, memcache and mysql.

I started to play with RDF, it came up like this.

The web apps in general are slowly moving from the traditional relational DB model, to something more flexible, schema less, and to something more scalable, distributed and heavy cached.

There are a lot of different components already existing, memcached, couchDB, Hadoop, ...

This is exciting, lot of innovations.

Back to RDF, I think that one way to go can be to store the objects in a triplestore. Kind of Semantic Web Object Mapping I you want. Every object has already a URI inside the app, plus, you get the notion of graph for free.

I started hacking something about this on my free time, at least as a good way to learn more about these technologies. If I manage to have it working, I'll probably share it on CPAN or github.

I loved LeWeb08

It's a quiet Sunday afternoon, four days after the conference, and I find myself thinking about what Chris Anderson said comparing the internet and the human brain, about the Open Stack and its ability to compete with closed environments, about the opposition between the Marc Simoncini's "rules" and the regular web2.0 business, ....

Every year these two days are the opportunity for me to take some distance with the everyday life, get inspired by great people and think about the future.

Congratulations Loïc and Geraldine !

Best of Palin

I saw these videos several times during the campaign, with always mixed feelings, you want to laugh, but, at the same it's so unbelievable and scary. Now that we know that the bad Disney movie was just a scenario, it's time to watch them again ... but just for fun !

In what respect Charlie

Foreign policy

It's gonna be all about job creations

What newspapers or magazines did you read ?

Is Africa a country ? (bonus, this one is recent)

GoogleBot "General HTTP error"

According to Google Webmaster Tools, GoogleBot had a problem crawling my blog on September 6th. It's described as a "General HTTP error", no HTTP error code, and the URLs are removed from the Google index, which is the most annoying obviously.

I sure my blog was online this day, so, I googled a little, and it looks like I'm not alone in this case, same problem here and here, also starting on September 6th.

Posting this note will ping the Google API, lets see if it helps GoogleBog to find its way to my blog again :-)

Update-17-09: It looks like Google is working on the problem.
Update-25-09: Still not fixed for me.
Update-15-10: Finally fixed, my Google traffic is slowly getting back.

Still using Vienna

7777 news to read in my aggregator, I said to myself, if you blog that you really have nothing else to blog, ... and that's true :-)

I should clean my feed list or spend more time reading them, but yes, I'm still using Vienna, (since this note). Not much activity on this open source project these days, is it dead ? Should I switch to something else ?