premshree

My visa for Israel just came through. I’ll be speaking at OSDC::Israel::2006. 26-28 February. Larry Wall will be there, and so will Audrey Tang (of Pugs fame). Should be fun. (All this assuming I’m not terribly bogged down with work.)

I’ll maybe speak to Larry about Perl and Ruby and all that stuff if I get a chance. ;-) You Ruby guys, anything you’d like me to ask Larry?

Need to apply for my Schengen visa now, as I intend to spend the weekend in Vienna.

I have been using Kayak for planning an upcoming trip. It’s awesome. It’s got all the Ajaxy goodness you want. Simply brilliant.

And there’s more interesting stuff:

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Perl, of course, is the great do-everything of scripting languages. It is not exactly elegant, but it is supremely powerful in qualified hands.

We've started to do some work which we might normally do in Perl with a newish language called Ruby. I'm all smitten with Ruby: it has much sexier object-oriented structure than perl. I'm thinking of asking her to the prom. Don't tell my wife.

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