Perl

Building an array of months for an HTML dropdown box.

Generating an XML directory for a Polycom 650 phone.

It’s pretty easy integrating a Memcached hook into your Perl code.

Calculating average times in SQL

What a shame… paying someone $75k to convert Perl web apps to asp.net. Mid-level .NET Developer I think I’m gonna be sick!

Attended YAPC in Houston, got a new camera too.

Finally Houston get’s to host a YAPC.

Made myself look like an idiot in front of a Perl audience.

Edit: Sorry brian d foy. See comments. brian d foy writes in this article, O’Reilly Network: Perl versus PHP 5, that he’s seen a lot of complaints about how hard it is to install modules in Perl. Now either he doesn’t use Perl, or maybe he just doesn’t know. perl -MCPAN -e ‘install Module::Name' That’s it. PHP doesn’t have a vast module network. I don’t hate PHP, but sooo many security issues, im ALWAYS upgrading mod_php. Perl is my language of choice. I’ve used python/php/tcl and I always come back to Perl. ...

Day three was good.. I really enjoyed Damian’s talk.. Overall good conference this year.. the University at Buffalo was a great place to host it. They had wireless everywhere, and plenty of places to eat on campus.. Go to tour the supercomputing lab. That was fun. Went to Niagra falls last night, and hopped the bridge to Canada.. Anyways.. I’m in the Buffalo airport, gotta get some food and hop on a place to Cleveland, OH, then to Houston, and I’m home.. ...