There’s More Than One Way to Sign a Perl Book
While at YAPC::NA, being the Fanboy that I am, I asked Larry Wall to sign my Perl Book. He, very timidly (Larry Wall is a very shy person), started pulling out an entire stamp set, and a pen. For those that haven’t had their Perl book signed by Larry Wall, it’s not just a signing, […]
Read more...Larry Wall YAPC::NA Keynote
Here’s my summary of the Larry Wall YAPC::NA Keynote. I came late, so I missed some of the beginning. I’ll update as I go… Scripting Languages – Larry Wall started with BASIC, which he considers to be the first scripting language Tcl is a purer scripting language than Tcl. Perl got its extension mechanism because […]
Read more...The Spammers have invaded Twitter!
I received the following e-mail notice from twitter today, notifying me someone added me as their friend: Hi, Jesse Stay. aruna (aruna) added you as a friend! Check out aruna’s profile here: http://twitter.com/aruna You may add aruna back by clicking on the “add” link. Best,Twitter If you follow the link, someone has set up a […]
Read more...Why if I didn’t believe in the Mormon Teachings of God, I’d be Bhuddist
I have been doing a lot of studying and pondering lately. I’ve decided I need to make sure I really believe what I believe, and what it is that I believe. I think every person in every religion should do this – faith, without some reasoning, in my opinion brings out a lot of weakness […]
Read more...YAPC::NA
I will be in Houston next week for YAPC::NA. I’ll try to post updates to the conference as I can, in particular Larry Wall’s report on Perl 6. If anyone has any questions or items you’d like to me to look up or keep note on, let me know. I’m totally excited, as Houston is […]
Read more...Call for Open Meta Standard
Over the weekend I have been thinking about new ways to categorize and target specific sections of content within larger areas of content. The thought came to mind when I was discussing with a friend about how my scriptures from church were getting too old, but we were both afraid to switch to a new […]
Read more...Yes, Google to Enter Health Care
It appears I was right about Google entering the Healthcare industry (I’m always right!). In my previous post I linked to an entry in the Google blog where one of Google’s VPs was reporting on being at a major Healthcare conference. Being in the Healthcare industry myself (I program Healthcare EDI), I know for a […]
Read more...Dabbling With Facebook Apps
My post yesterday got the gears (pun originally not intended) going in my head. I’ve got so many ideas I want to push out to Facebook Apps. Apparently I’m not alone either, as in just the last couple days of it being live, there are already hundreds of apps being published. Digg is full of […]
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