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