Just a quick note to all the wonderful Perlfolk who are eagerly awaiting news of YAPC|10. (That’s the 10th-anniversary Yet Another Perl Conference, to be held June 22-24, 2009, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where it all started back in 1999.) Ahem: Your beloved organizers have been hard at work...

Eul meu alternativ a scris pe celălalt blog o mică diatribă despre problemele combinării de biblioteci de cod scrise în limbaje de programare diferite. Şi mai am o altă problemă: instrumentele curente de design al unui limbaj de programare sunt destul de primitive. Yacc/Lex sunt decente, dar...

For quite some time now I’ve been taking a pretty big risk with a lot of files at home. I have a linux box that I run samaba on in order to share files with my Windows machines. These Windows machines map that share as their “S” drive. Once upon a time, this 120GB drive had a twin ...

but i don't bring you fire. i thought about that, but then noticed someone had already done it. bastard. what i bring is almost as useful, if not more. we now have induction cookers, so the need for fire has dwindled a lot. these days, what we really need is a way to post stuff to twitter. i had thi...

Sau "De ce moare Zune-ul?". Citeam pe /. despre "sinuciderea in masa" (plastic vorbind) a Zune-ului pe data de 31 decembrie, intr-un an bisect. Bineinteles, pentru un iAnyting killer, miscarea asta nu e foarte buna. Si nici pentru imaginea producatorului abia scapat de ecrane albastre. Zilele astea ...

On Elpeleg writes "The Perl Foundation has announced they are switching their version control systems to git. According to the announcement, Perl 5 migration to git would allow the language development team to take advantage of git's extensive offline and distributed version support. Git is open sou...

I’m slowly catching up with the news stream and all the jokes of the last few weeks.  “If programming languages were religions” is a nice one.  Here is PHP, which I spent the most time with now: PHP would be Cafeteria Christianity - Fights with Java for the web market. It draws a...

Sam Vilain converted Perl’s history from Perforce to Git. [..] He spent more than a year building custom tools to transform 21 years of Perl history into the first ever unified repository of every single change to Perl. In addition to changes from Perforce, Sam patched together a comprehensive vie...

use Perl | Perl 5 now uses Git for version control. In true open source style, Sam Vilain converted Perl's history from Perforce to Git. He did the work both in his spare time and in time donated by his employer, Catalyst IT. He spent more than a year building custom tools to transform 21 years of P...

Yesterday, the New York Post's Keith Kelly reported that Andrea Kaplan, a longtime Condé Nast publicist, was being laid off along with a small handful of others from the magazine publisher's PR group. Kaplan, who was once the head of PR for Condé Nast, has had an unusual career at the company. In ...