Matts's JournalMatts's use Perl JournalBrrrrrr- January 21, 2008 Image It's deathly cold out there, but I decided yesterday to wrap up warm and get my ass out there to do some photography. It was worth it for the results, but I sure couldn't hang around long.Original herehttp://use.perl.org/~Matts/journal/35441?from=rss On feeling out of touch- January 5, 2008 I haven't done much web development now for 7 years. I did a large-ish project at work using AxKit (probably one of the highest traffic mod_perl applications in existance, doing about 200 million transactionsday) about 4 or 5 years ago, but I don't really count that as it didn't expand my knowledge of web technology in any way.I keep reading about new web "stuff" - Rails, Django, Seaside, etc. None of it really interests me all that much because frankly the core of the web doesn't appear to...http://use.perl.org/~Matts/journal/35291?from=rss Terrorists win- January 5, 2008 So tomorrow was supposed to be the start of the Dakar Rally. My brother-in-law Quin Evans was supposed to be co-driving in the race with his friend Ivar Tollefsen. A years preparation goes into the race.Now the rally is cancelled because Al-Qaeda were supposedly targetting the rally. I hate that. Giving in to terrorists is just the worst thing. But losing a brother in law would have been worse.http://use.perl.org/~Matts/journal/35290?from=rss Rails has peaked- January 4, 2008 I found this blog post rather interesting. Though take it with a grain of salt obviously.http://use.perl.org/~Matts/journal/35288?from=rss |