April 24, 2011

Foul Work Environment

Andy Lester ranted about the foul-mouthed community members who are messing up his open source work environment.

I'm tired of seeing yet another clueless missive from someone claiming that we don't have to be nice to each other, because hey, we're all adults here. I'm tired of hearing that profanity in written communication doesn't matter because hey, it's just words, man.

Source: Slipping away from the Perl community

August 2, 2010

Joshua Schachter Raising Capital for New Startup

Good news for the perl community: Joshua Schachter of del.icio.us fame is organizing a new company.

Having cut his teeth in NYC finance tech, Mr. Schachter built del.icio.us in perl. I saw him speak at a Ycombinator startup school and this man is the quintessential Wall Street engineer: practical, tough, direct, and funny as hell. It is obviously too soon to tell whether he will use perl to build parts of his new venture, but he probably won't be using anything like Yahoo's php+c++ framework.

August 25, 2006

Leaving Los Boingos

Yesterday was my last day on the job at Boingo Wireless. I am now free to put all of my time into my education and into building out my ideas. Wish me luck!

What to do, what to do.

I think I will start by delving into Ruby on Rails and its Java/Groovy cousin Grails. Squirrel RDF's RDB Mapper also has caught my eye (thanks to a mention from Danny).

June 21, 2004

New Job

Wednesday was my last day at the Hollywood Stock Exchange. Overall, it was a positive experience, but I had to move on. How could I resist working on perl applications at a startup... again?

Tomorrow, I will be starting my first day at Boingo Wireless.

June 7, 2004

Life Hacks

Cory Doctorow has posted some great notes from Danny O'Brien's Life Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific Alpha Geek. These were taken from Mr. O'Brien's presentation at NotCom '04.

I emailed and contacted 70 technologists, asked 100 questions and got 14 replies back

I got a bunch of screenshots, habits, code, anaecdotes

* JWZ -- Netscape hacker, sells beer, hangs out with goth chicks
* Gnat Torkington -- Perl hacker
* Brad Templeton -- Chairman of EFF
* Guido van Rossom -- Invented Python
* ESR -- Gun toting nice man, author of Cathedral and Bazaar
* Ann Mitchell -- Antispam lawyer
* Morbus Iff -- Amphetadesk, prefers dialup to broadband
* Paul Ford -- ftrain.com
* Dan Egnor -- Sweetcode.org
* Edd Dumbill -- XML.com
* Cory Doctorow -- Writer
* Simon Cozens -- Perl Hacker
* Tim Bray -- W3C
* Piers Beckley -- LA Scriptwriter (meant to get a perl scriptwriter,
got an LA scriptwriter -- we'll call him "the control") Source

March 30, 2004

Interview with Marc Canter

Richard MacManus has posted his interview with multimedia and social software pioneer Marc Canter. It is definitely worth reading.

March 24, 2004

Interview with Ken Jordan

Seb Paquet has posted a brief summary about an interview with Ken Jordan, one of the thinkers behind the Augmented Social Network (by way of Many 2 Many).

March 19, 2004

Sun Hires Tim Bray

Tim Bray announced that he has been hired by Sun Microsystems. He has lots of interesting things to say about it, too.

As of today, I work for Sun. Let?s see; Java rocks. Microsoft sucks. I can play that tune. Source