November is shaping up to be an interesting month in London. Not only is there the London Perl Workshop that I mentioned yesterday, but Dean Wilson has organised a London Web Frameworks Night on November 17th. Three experts will be discussing the major MVC frameworks for Perl (Catalyst), Python (Django) and Ruby (Rails). And it’s… Continue reading London Web Frameworks Night
Author: Dave Cross
“Sleepy Village”
I can ‘t work out whether or not this is irony. The article talks about Pete Townshend doing a small unannounced gig in the pub at the end of my road. It says that the show took place at the Bedford Pub in the sleepy village of Balham near London Never thought of myself as… Continue reading “Sleepy Village”
London Perl Workshop
Those nice people from the London Perl Mongers have announced the 2005 London Perl Workshop. It’ll be on Saturday 26th November at The City University. More details from the web site. I expect I’ll be giving some kind of talk. Hope to see some of you there. Update: 2005. It’s 2005!
mightyv.com
A couple of my friends have won the first BBC Backstage competition with their web site mightyv.com (that’s a pun on “mighty tv” and “my tv”). It’s a great site and you should all take a look at it (assuming that the server can cope with the strain of all the publicity it’s currently getting).… Continue reading mightyv.com
Doctor Who Wins National TV Awards
The revived Doctor Who won three awards at last night’s National TV Awards ceremony. The programme won “most popular drama” and Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper won “most popular actor” and “most popular actress” respectively. I first found out about this by reading The Sun‘s version of the story over someone’s shoulder on the tube… Continue reading Doctor Who Wins National TV Awards
Flatterer
From an interview with Gregory Wilson where he talks about his recent book Data Crunching. I was also inspired by David Cross’s excellent book “Data Munging with Perl“, which taught me most of what I know about how to actually use the language. If he’d written a cross-language version of that book, I probably wouldn’t… Continue reading Flatterer
ActiveRecord Does It Wrong
I’m listening to the keynotes on the final day of EuroOSCON and David Heinemeier Hansson is talking about the secrets of Ruby on Rails. He talks about how they promote “convention over configuration” and how that means that you don’t have to describe the same object attribute multiple times. This is a great idea, but… Continue reading ActiveRecord Does It Wrong
EuroOSCON Day 1
Ok, so it was probably day 2 if you were here for the tutorials, but it was my first day here, so I’m calling it day 1. Just a few brief notes so that I remember what I did yesterday, I’ll fill in more details later. The morning started with the keynote speeches. Nat began… Continue reading EuroOSCON Day 1
EasyJet (part 2)
EasyJet had one last surprise for me. My plane from Stansted was delayed by over an hour. I was supposed to arrive in Amsterdam at about 17:00 local time. I finally landed at about 22:45 and eventually got to my hotel just before midnight. Which wouldn’t have really been a problem, but there were some… Continue reading EasyJet (part 2)
EasyJet
Remind me to never book another EasyJet fight. Ever. I had booked a flight that left Gatwick at 14:35 getting me to Amsterdam at 17:50 (local time). It’s now 18:00 (London time) and instead of being in the bar at at the conference hotel, I’m typing this in the departure lounge at Stansted airport whilst… Continue reading EasyJet