Rubénerd :)

So it looks as though Perl 6 might be coming soon… again!

#!/usr/bin/env perl -wT
use strict;

&sayWooHoo("again");

sub sayWooHoo {
    print ("Hey, 6 might be coming soon, $_[0]!");
}

My first job out of high school was writing Perl programs. Was the happiest time of my life, because university hadn’t crushed my spirit yet. Perl is awesome. CPAN is awesome! And don’t believe what they say, it is possible to write Perl programs that you and others can understand later, provided you follow the conventions :).

With my dad, sis and I moving internationally again and with this latest project, I haven’t had much time for blogging or tweeting these last few days. I’m really excited though, because I just finished a really unconventional project for a client and it worked beautifully!

I’m not allowed to discuss the Five W’s, but suffice to say it used a lot of a certain flavour of Java and a really ancient database. I’m talking stone tablet ancient. And it worked! Yays! Alas for the sake of my anemic public resume/portfolio, this will be yet another thing I can’t add to it for NDA-like reasons. Oh well, I learned a heck of a lot and got lots of experience.

Now I’ll be taking a small sabbatical and helping my dad and sis move in and organise whatnot. Will be nice ToLiveWithoutLongCamelCase and dusty old manuals with yellowing pages that made me sneeze for a while ;).

Having got used to Python 3.0 development on my Mac through MacPorts, I was a little surprised to find it currently unavailable for Fedora, at least in Constantine (Fedora 12, the current stable release) without any third party RPM sources.

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Longer time readers of my blog here would have read my lamentations about the fall of really high quality personal blogs and the rise of homogeneous, interchangeable blog networks with hundreds of writers, so when I find an amazing personal blog I have to share it!

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One of the world’s best dressed and most friendly scientists, Dr Karl answered a question about muscle exhaustion.

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I’ve decided to put my code snippets blog idea on hold because I don’t have time to be maintaining a separate blog right now. Had I started it, this would have gone there.

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Given it’s my birthday and all that, I thought I’d use the time to announce an announcement: I [might be] starting a new blog thingy for code snippets!

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Having used both, while I do prefer Django for my own projects, Ruby on Rails has a fancier welcome page. Sorry, it had to be said :D.

If they were really smart they’d include a picture of Reinhardt the Awesome and some wicked jazz music, plenty of both to choose from! It’d probably quadruple the size of the framework tarball, but to borrow a phrase from my sister "it’d be SO worth it!" Am I right? Don’t answer that.

Get it? CC cuddling cheese-kun? Warm and fuzzy? C? Get it? When I first started messing around with GNU ncurses I was under the impression it was a simple framework to create interactive, windowed console applications…

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Having dabbled in a ton of different languages lately, I felt the overwhelming urge this week just to get back to some good ol’ C, and what better and more productive way to do so that to mess around with ncurses!

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