Category Archives: People

I Hate E-mail

I like e-mail, in general. It’s a convenient, asynchronous, mostly-reliable method of communication. I can receive a message, mull over it for a while, formulate a semi-intelligent response, and it hasn’t really pulled me away from what I was doing … Continue reading

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Perl Survey 2007

Schwern, during one of his lightning talks, plugged the Perl Survey. Quite simply, it’s a way of finding out who’s using Perl. I’m pretty interested in seeing the results myself. Anyway, go take the survey. http://perlsurvey.org/

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OSCON 2007: People Hacks

One of the tracks at OSCON this year is people. Everyone thinks that Open Source is about programming, but it’s really about people. People who write Open Source. Apparently, this the people track is very popular with everyone. This session, … Continue reading

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