[Van-pm] Tech Meeting, 12th March 2009 @ Sophos

Michael R. Wolf MichaelRWolf at att.net
Tue Feb 24 09:44:19 PST 2009


On Feb 23, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Luke Closs wrote:

> I just dipped my toes into *gasp* ruby to set up a shared web  
> calendar called Calagator - I set it up here: http:// 
> cal.wikrad.com.  (Please help contribute!)  I could put together a  
> 5m lightning talk on the process of getting that site up and running  
> from a perl hacker's perspective.

Anything with a "*gasp*" around it is a prime candidate for sharing  
the knowledge among the group.  Given that it falls into the  
"comparative religion" (oops, I mean "comparative linguistics")  
category, it's got great training potential, especially if you stick  
to "just the facts".

One of my favorite parts about Damian Conway's "Perl Best Practices"  
book is how well it translates to *other* programming languages.  I  
think he succeeds in that endeavor because of his non-attachment, even  
to his own personal preferences.  In the preface, he states "Just  
thinking about these issues - becoming conscious of the way you write  
code -- can be of enormous benefit, even if you don't adopt a single  
one of the recommendations that follow."

To that end, I find that knowing practices in any other language is  
helpful to my Perl.  I learn something from good practices and bad  
practices.

>

-- 
Michael R. Wolf
     All mammals learn by playing!
         MichaelRWolf at att.net






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