merlyn's Journalmerlyn's use Perl JournalYAPC::NA 2007 is over...- June 30, 2007 My pictures are up on Flickr already, including the early morning "fire drill" at the Hilton on my last day. I had about 30 people in my 2-day "master class", where I presented "Perl Second Best Practices" (my take on PBP) and "Persistent Perl Data" (a survey of simple persistence, DBI, Class::DBI, and Rose::DB::Object). I'm beat, heading home, but no rest for the weary, as I'll be on the road for six of the next seven weeks.http://use.perl.org/~merlyn/journal/33647?from=rss Successful fashion choices- June 18, 2007 Just stumbled across this in the classes distro: Also around that time I bumped into another Perl guy, Randal. I think I even went to one of his Karaoke haunts with him at least once (although he did not sing, for better or worse). I remember those were dark times for Randal. When the movie "Hackers" came out (you remember that one with a very young Angelina Jolie) we had a saying around the office: "Randal Schwartz never wore silver hot pants." Hear hear.http://use.perl.org/~merlyn/journal/33550?from=rss Foreword from "Mastering Perl"- June 17, 2007 I wrote this for the upcoming Mastering Perl book, but I figured it was worth reprinting it here. Enjoy.One of the problems we face at Stonehenge as professional trainers is to make sure that we write materials that are reusable in more than one presentation. The development expense of a given set of lecture notes requires us to consider that we'll need roughly two to four hundred people who are all starting in roughly the same place, and who want to end up in the same place, and who we can...http://use.perl.org/~merlyn/journal/33537?from=rss UnixReviewSysAdmin ends; my 12-year column run ends with it- June 13, 2007 I've just been informed by my editor that the August 2007 issue of UnixReviewSysAdmin will be the last issue. I wrote 71 bimonthly columns from March 1995 to July 2007 for that magazine sequence, covering a wide variety of Perl topics (from web 0.0 to web 2.0 and beyond), and getting my name in print around 10 million times. I will miss the job. I'm still writing for Linux Magazine (94 articles and climbing), so you can still get a monthly dose of wisdom there.http://use.perl.org/~merlyn/journal/33513?from=rss Perl to Python- June 5, 2007 "Our team has been spearheading the transition from Perl to Python at the facility", says Grant. "There are three primary reasons for this. The creation of Python bindings to a C++ library is very easy and allows us to utilize core R&D libraries in the rest of the pipeline more quickly. The object-oriented nature of Python is very attractive given our new asset model and should allow us to make changes to that asset model much more easily in the future. And, Python is a first-class...http://use.perl.org/~merlyn/journal/33438?from=rss |