Category Archives: Perl

OSCON 2008: Stick a fork() in It

First session of the day and I’m in room F150 (brought to you by Ford). The F wing, bereft of wifi. I’m here for Stick a fork() in It: Parallel and Distributed Perl with Eric Wilhelm of Scratch Computing. It’s … Continue reading

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OSCON 2008: Thursday Morning Keynotes

Thursday morning, the conference is more than half way over. It’s once again time for some keynotes. They opened with an open content video from REM. I don’t know why. It wasn’t very good. Our first speaker this morning is … Continue reading

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OSCON 2008: An Illustrated History of Failure

For my final session of the day, I’m in D139/140 for An Illustrated History of Failure with Paul Fenwick. I attended Paul’s Perl security talk yesterday, which was deciding factor in my attendance here. I figure it will have to … Continue reading

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Perl 6, the Bird, and Hacking with Damian

Today was a long day for me. First, I was up early to ensure I could spend some time taking care of things in my office before class at 9:00am. Second, eight hours of Advanced Perl Best Practices with Damian … Continue reading

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When a Problem Comes Along, You Must Parse It

(With apologies to Devo.) I attended the first of three courses taught by Damian Conway today, Advanced Parsing with Parse::RecDescent. This was, effectively, the Parse::RecDescent tutorial as presented live by Damian. I’ve read the tutorial, and it’s quite good, but … Continue reading

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Finally Working on SanDiego.pm.org

After inheriting the San Diego Perl Mongers web site, I’m finally starting to work on it. My first task was to remove the frames. While I was at it, I re-organized the information a bit to (hopefully) make it very … Continue reading

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A Successful New Venue for SanDiego.pm

Tonight I hosted the San Diego Perl Mongers meeting at the auditorium in the building where I work. It was an experiment, and a successful one at that. We had an attendance of 16 people, which is quite good for … Continue reading

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YAPC::NA in Los Angeles, Anyone?

After attending OSCON last month, and having the usual fun with my geek friends from around the globe, I decided that I should start attending YAPC. As it so happens, the Los Angeles Perl Mongers are kicking around the idea … 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: State of the Onion

After the auction to benefit the Perl Foundation, it was finally time for the State of the Onion. I don’t know which number this is, but there have been a lot. When Larry hooked up his computer to the projector, … Continue reading

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