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
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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
Computer Weekly Covers LAMP
Computer Weekly has an article about LAMP systems. It’s nice that they’re defining it as a “hot skill” about five years after everyone else was talking about it. Or, on the other hand, it’s easy to think that everyone knows about LAMP just because I everyone I know has been working in this area for… Continue reading Computer Weekly Covers LAMP
EuroOSCON
Interesting post from Nat Torkington about what he’s thinking on the eve of the first European OSCON. It’s been a few years since I went to one of the US OSCONs and I’m really interested to see how the European version works out. I’ll be arriving in Amsterdam on Monday and will, of course, be… Continue reading EuroOSCON
Tiny Videos
Why do people want to watch videos on their iPods? Maybe I should rephrase that. Do people really want to watch videos on their iPods? Or is that just what Steve Jobs wants people to want? I had the same question when I saw that you could buy films and TV programs to watch on… Continue reading Tiny Videos
Hacking URLs
How do you surf the web? Chances are that you’re like most people and you just click on links to move from page to page. Seems that most people don’t use the location bar in their browser. That’s the text box near the top of your browser window that contains the URL (or, in plain… Continue reading Hacking URLs
Neologism
Is Lloyd the first person use the word “pingosphere”? I’ve never seen it before. Oh wait, Google has one previous usage. Does anyone else just think of penguins when they read it?
Databases and Metadata
Following on from my previous post let’s take a closer look at the kinds of metadata that you might put into a database and how an Object-Relational Mapping layer (like Class::DBI, ActiveRecord or Hibernate) might make use of it. We’ll start with the most obvious stuff and work our way down to less common features.… Continue reading Databases and Metadata
On Databases
Last week David Heinemeier Hansson wrote a rather controversial piece about the use of stored procedures, triggers and relational constraints in databases. Later in the week Alex Bunardzic backed him up. What they both seem to be saying is that because we now have powerful tools to represent our data models in code[1] then there… Continue reading On Databases
Be Prepared
Today was the day I gave my talk on Enterprise Perl at the LinuxWorldExpo conference. As always when speaking at these conferences I was well prepared. I had my talk on my laptop and a copy on a USB memory key. Also, as my laptop is looking a bit long in the tooth and isn’t… Continue reading Be Prepared