If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! I’m at OSDC in Brisbane this week. Yesterday I presented my half-day tutorial on Test Driven Development, and promised I would put the slides online. Here they are.
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Vanuatu’s a bloody long way from anywhere.
It’s hard to realise how far until you come to visit, and people start asking you to bring things. “Can you buy me a pair of Tevas?” asked Dan. One of his friends who’s installing a security system asked me to pick up some [...]
I’m putting together the results of the Perl Survey, and as I sat on IRC this evening I mentioned that I was collating the data regarding years’ experience in programming.
“I bet,” said Greg McCarroll, “that about 30% of people said they have either 1 year or 10-19 years’ experience.”
I took a look at the [...]
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 world things — ships, people, breeds of sheep, bones in the human body — rather than [...]
I haven’t mentioned it here before, but I’m running a survey of the Perl community over at perlsurvey.org. If you’re a Perl programmer, or even just an occasional user — modifying the odd CGI script, or writing a quick script to automate some sysadmin tasks, for instance — then please take 5 minutes [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
Over at use.perl, Schwern’s been talking about Perl blogs and their visibility.
There are hundreds(?) of journals over on use.perl, but if you google for Perl blogs you won’t find any of them easily. In fact, you won’t find much of anything at all. Meanwhile, googling for Ruby blogs will give you an [...]
By this time tomorrow I’ll be unemployed, and I’ve got no job lined up.
As it happens, I’m not in a rush to find another position. I’ve got some funds and some personal projects and travel to keep me busy until I find something that appeals. But of course I’m keeping my eyes [...]
Recently I’ve been working on MiniMVC, a very tiny MVC framework based on Mason. When I’ve mentioned it to people, I’ve had a surprisingly high number say that they’ve heard of MVC — the Model-View-Controller pattern — but aren’t quite sure what it means in practice.
So here’s a demonstration, in AMAZING TECHNICOLOR! [...]
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