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 [...]
Also tagged 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 [...]
Also tagged catalyst, dbix::class, mst, 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 [...]
Also tagged catalyst, dbix::class, mason, moose, oop, perl::critic, phpI 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 [...]
Also tagged ppw, ppw2008I’ve attended 4 Perl Conferences in the past 2 years. This year’s Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is the first that I’ve presented at. My talk was titled Security through Detection, Prevention, and Introspection. I have slides available.
I originally wanted to present a bunch of code, but I couldn’t really find a way to make the code [...]
Also tagged ppw2007A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I programmed in PHP for a mortgage company. I ended up leaving that job for personal reasons. Apparently, 40 hours/week truly is not enough. I was a Perl programmer prior to that excursion, and I guess I never grew out of it. [...]
Also tagged phpI’ve been bugging my employers for years to send me to conferences and training seminars. None of them have been keen on the idea, and it’s a real shame. I’m lucky enough to have an incredibly good supervisory staff and a great job now. I asked to go to YAPC::NA, and they [...]
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