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Dopplr vs TripIt: web 2.0 travel sites compared

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! I’ve been using Dopplr for a while now, and recently got an invitation code for TripIt. Both are web 2.0 social networking websites for travellers, and a lot of people have been talking about them in relation [...]

There’s a new Perl blog in town

One of the things I’ve been doing, in my current state of unemployment, is pondering the world of Perl blogs.

A month or so back, I happened to google for perl blogs and found almost nothing of use on the front page. Then I googled ruby blogs and found that most of the first [...]

BarCampBlock: Session notes roundup

A number of people have been blogging about sessions at BarCampBlock. There are plenty of session notes on the wiki, but I thought I’d link a few of the people who are posting about specific sessions they attended or ran.

I blogged two myself:

Why is Programming Hard? with Kragen Sitaker:

Here’s some of [...]

BarCampBlock: Review roundup

Lots of other people are talking about BarCampBlock. Here’s a link roundup. I’ll add to it as more stuff becomes available.

Jordan Sissel:

After two days of meeting new friends, catching up with others, a blitz of demos, piles of sessions, food, and drink, I’m pretty beat. As Tara put it in [...]

Success!

I suspect someone at my old work has been reading my earlier post on How (not) to write a Perl job ad.

Take a look at these ads:

Current job ad on jobs.perl.org June 2006 (via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine)

Compare and contrast this old description of the required skills…

You will need to demonstrate: [...]

BarCampBlock: The Grid

BarCampBlock, like all BarCamps, is an unconference. That means there’s no set schedule, and that participants collaboratively come up with one on the first morning of the event.

I found myself a good position and took photos of “the grid” every so often over the weekend. The first photo is from about 9am [...]

Why is programming hard?

I’m at BarCampBlock sitting in a session by Kragen Sitaker on “Why is programming hard?” We’re mostly just going round the group and trying to come up with a list of answers to that question.

Photo by Beatrice Murch

Here’s some of what’s on the board:

Gulf of evaluation Gulf of execution Impatience (but not the Larry Wall [...]

At BlockCamp

I’m at BarCampBlock in Palo Alto, and things are just about to kick off. More coverage to follow!

Freebase: crack for information nerds

I have discovered something more crack-like than Wikipedia.

Freebase is a collection of user-contributed and -edited data about everything. Like Wikipedia, you can put just about anything in there. Unlike Wikipedia, you don’t just provide text, but can provide structured data. For instance, for a topic of type “person”, there are fields [...]

Maritime Museum

So, the San Francisco Maritime Museum isn’t that great, but I do like this photo.

This week has been rather insane. I’ll try and post something substantial as soon as I slow down.