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!
Author: Dave Cross
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
Newspapers and Film
My natural newpaper-buying instincts have been thrown into complete confusion by the British paper’s recent spate of giving away free DVDs. I first noticed this a couple of weeks ago when theguardian came with a free copy of The Madness of King George. That wasn’t a problem. I don’t always buy Saturday’s Guardian, but the… Continue reading Newspapers and Film
How Not To Publish RSS
More and more web sites are publishing RSS feeds of their useful data. But if you’re going to publish RSS feeds then it’s important to get it right. The Transport for London site is a good example of how not to do it. Whilst trying to get the latest news on the current Northern Line… Continue reading How Not To Publish RSS