I’ve been schooling myself on Evolutionary Biology for about 3 or 4 years.
I dropped out of college after my freshman year because Undergrad was then,
and is still is today a lifeless process of rote memorization. During that
time, I didn’t learn to learn, or learn anything more than “here are the
rules, and if you don’t follow [...]
As a result of YAPC::NA 10, I was inspired to get more involved in Social Media. The idea is to promote and learn about new technologies through Social Media while injecting a sane, intelligent under current of Modern Perl.
I finally started to use my Twitter account. I’ve noticed the majority of tweets regarding Perl [...]
I took a much needed vacation the latter part of last week. Prior to that, I was helping a few coworkers with getting PHP Web Applications developed on Fedora Core 5 to run on CentOS 5 with upgraded PHP, Apache, and libraries. Every time I work with PHP, it gives me serious perspective [...]
Tagged perl, perl5, phpI got back from YAPC::NA #10 yesterday. There was a lot of sleeping required to recover from a tech conference with 8 am talks! A Twitter Search for “yapc” indicates I’m not the only one slow to recover those missing hours of sleep.
Overall the conference was a fantastic success. There were highs [...]
Matthew S Trout has started a Perl Iron Man challenge to encourage Perl users to become active in the blogosphere. Not many people outside of the Perl echo chamber realize how active and modern the language. A lot of the concepts that trampolined Ruby and Python into the forefront of Web 2.0 have been alive [...]
Tagged catalyst, dbix::class, mst, perl, poeI’ve been doing web application development for years in several languages. I’ve spent time with PHP, Java, but primarily Perl. I consider myself a “Perl Programmer” first, everything else second. Until recently, most people would equate that to “Dinosaur.” However, there’s been a revival of Perl these days! There are [...]
Tagged catalyst, dbix::class, mason, moose, oop, perl, perl::critic, phpFor several years I’ve managed to bend cfEngine 2.0’s architecture to my will. Being an experienced Perl programmer, I was able to abuse the configuration language snytax in order to accomplish a number of strange things including Copy Back and automated management of OSSEC-HIDS. However, there comes a point when the managing the cfengine configs [...]
Tagged cfengine, linux, puppet, rubyI had the pleasure of speaking at the 2008 Pittsburgh Perl Workshop. Due to some rather depressing news on the home front, I was only able to attend Saturday’s track and the Event Dinner. Everything was awesome as usual. I was even surprised to learn new things in the Advanced Pattern Matching [...]
Tagged perl, ppw, ppw2008Just a little comic to remind ourselves what we’re giving away for “Security.” This is not what our founding fathers had in mind. I’m disappointed in the US Government and it’s people.
Tagged security hypocrisy