OpenGL over SSH

Just a quick note, if one needs to use OpenGL over an SSH X Forward, you may need to do "export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=y" on the remote computer. FYI

Published my first CPAN module!

Well I have jumped in finally, I have published my first CPAN module, a PDL export tool. Beyond being useful it was a good first opportunity to publishing something simple before doing something more involved, like the Physics modules that I might end up publishing, or the FLI camera Perl module/driver that I have been working on.

I have set up a github repository to host my work. If you want, you can follow the development of this and other future work there.

Scientific Data Crunching on Perl (PDL)

A good primer on PDL for those of us who know Perl but find it a little hard to use the PDL documentation.

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=598007

Math font in Beamer

I have always wondered why Beamer messed with my math fonts, turns out its not hard to get it back. \documentclass[mathserif]{beamer} and you're done!

Perl Multiline Comments

The PerlMonks, in their wisdom, have provided several methods to include multi-line comments in your Perl source. I must admit I am still trying to understand Abigail's.

Preview your Perl POD like CPAN does

Want to see what your POD will look like on CPAN? Upload it to http://search.cpan.org/pod2html and see!

Build Perl faster

http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/blog/1010

however I can't seem to find out how to do this with perlbrew.