Perl Catalyst Tutorial needs us to download a virtual machine

I was trying to explore more about how and where Perl is used on the web. I figured out that there are a lot of web frameworks that are based on Perl. Catalyst seems to be a nice MVC framework that is really popular. I thought I’d take some time off to learn more about it. And I downloaded all the necessary packages and modules and then went on to check out the tutorial which is posted here: Catalyst Tutorial. I am already using Ubuntu on a virtual machine. My laptop came pre-loaded with Windows 8. And I’ve upgraded it to Windows 8.1. I always wanted to own a Linux laptop. But thinking about the lack of availability of games, I chose Windows over Linux. But I still can’t avoid using Linux as I always use it at work. Though recently I made a move to a windows based development team, which still has some code on non-windows based boxes. ...

February 9, 2014 · 2 min · 305 words

MySQL Partitioning Tutorial

This is a brilliant power point presentation that helped summarize partitioning and its uses. I am currently working on mapping an object oriented database into a relational one, focusing on query time performance. So partitioning data according to how it is accessed was a key. And this sure helped a lot in clearing the basics, without wasting much time. hope it helps you as well. MySQL partitions tutorial ...

June 3, 2013 · 1 min · 74 words