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Posted
9 September 2007 @ 7pm

Categories
Tech

A quick tour of Freebase

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! I posted a while ago about my new crack habit, Freebase. Freebase is — to my mind — like Wikipedia mashed up with the LambdaMOO class hierarchy. The idea of creating classes and types for real [...]


Posted
17 July 2007 @ 9pm

Categories
Tech

CPAN and the Installability Crisis

How do you install a PHP web application?

Generally it goes like this:

Download zip file Unzip on your PC Edit a config file Upload to your web host Point your browser at install.php

How do you install a Perl web application?

Well, it depends, but a lot of them go like this:

Login to your shell account on your web host — [...]