Secret Perl Operators
Yet another mailing list I’m on is Peteris Krumins’ blog, good coders code, great reuse. He posts about software development, hacking, security, code reuse, etc. This post is on advanced use of obscure Perl operators.
13 Things Horror Movies Taught Us
From the wonderful folks at the Boston Sci-Fi Marathon, I present 13 Things Horror Movies Taught Us. These people run other movie marathons, like HorrorThon (which I attended), but the Sci Fi marathon is their biggie. It’s a 10 day event (starting 02/05/10), ending in the 24-hour marathon (which I hope to go to). I just wish their website was in better shape.
Python Creator Makes Brave Move
According to this article (and others), Python creator and BDFL (“Benevolent Dictator For Life”) Guido van Rossum froze the Python language’s syntax and grammar in their current form for the the next few releases, and possibly longer. The reasons are good ones; To let developers catch up to the latest release, to let the rich array of third-party tools stabilize, and to improve the quality of the existing libraries. I think it’s a bold move, but the right move.
The History Of The Internet In A Nutshell
This is an awesome article. I found the link from the Semantic Web group on LinkedIn. I haven’t spot-checked it for accuracy, but there’s a fair amount of dispute over the history of computers and the Internet anyway. But this article is very enjoyable, and includes many related historical points, like when certain companies formed, and the history of tangential technologies that made the Internet possible. It’s a good read for geeks, and a great primer for geeks-in-training.
I Have Paper Clips Again
I mentioned in this post that I got laid off from Metatomix back in October. I just landed a Java/J2EE Software Engineering job at Litle & Co.. I started Monday, but I wanted to wait a few days to “make sure it takes”. But it feels good, I’ve already checked in some code, and have adapted to their pair programming environment. I wrote a bit about them in this post while I was still researching them, and I liked what I found. I already have a taste for their flavor of Kool-Aid, having done Agile and pair programming before, and similar work in similar technologies. This has all the makings of a good, long, run.
Will The Semantic Web Ever Take Off?
I was just reading this article from Priyank Mohan’s Semantic Technology Blog. He draws parallels between it and the movement to automated online B2B transactions from years ago and linked data on the web, and what lessons we should learn from the (mostly) failure of B2B. Priyank focuses mostly on the similarities of the benefits, which is useful, but I think both movements didn’t have the impact they were supposed to have for the same basic reason; They both require incredible amounts of work that will only pay off if enough other companies follow suit. As much as I would love to see it happen in the near future, I don’t think it will
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