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Posted
19 October 2007 @ 8am

Categories
Tech, Travel

Technical books for Vanuatu

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! 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. [...]


Posted
8 October 2007 @ 9pm

Categories
General

Benford’s Law

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 [...]


Posted
21 August 2007 @ 3am

Categories
Events, Tech

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 [...]


Posted
20 August 2007 @ 4am

Categories
Events, Tech

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 [...]


Posted
9 August 2007 @ 3pm

Categories
Events, Tech, Travel

Wiki Wednesday: Yoz Grahame on “Folk Logic”

[ Not quite live-blogged from Wiki Wednesday at Citizen Space; I took notes live, then kind of cleaned them up. ]

Yoz Grahame is apparently my long-lost twin, at least judging by the violence of my nodding all through his talk.

He launched his talk on “Folk Logic” — how people learn to [...]