brian_d_foy's Journalbrian_d_foy's use Perl JournalIceland, where YAPC::NA and YAPC::EU can meet- July 3, 2008 For the last year I've been mildly advocating that a Nordic Perl Workshop be in Iceland, mostly because I'd like to go to an NPW in all of the Nordic countries and Iceland has as much of a chance as Finland of hosting one. Heck, let's even have a YAPC there.I just found another good reason to have it in Iceland: it's literally on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Well, duh, of course Iceland is where the Earth's crust is pulling apart, but I never really thought about it since it is way up there almost...http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/36845?from=rss "brian's Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem" in German- July 2, 2008 It looks like my Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem is being incrementally translated into german through a wiki. If you have the skills, maybe you can help them finish it.http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/36841?from=rss Searching Perl Mailing Lists with MarkMail- July 2, 2008 A couple of months ago, MarkLogic imported a bunch of Perl mailing lists into their MarkMail service. After only a couple of minutes playing with the service, I really liked it. Instead of making a query, getting results, then trying again, MarkMail lets me start with a broad topic and refine the search by looking at intermediate results.I wanted to find out more. For The Perl Review, I interviewed Jason Hunter, the Principal Technologist at Mark Logic, to find out more. I also made a...http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/36840?from=rss |