Tag: perl
July 26, 2010: A Hammer, A Nail, and A Giant Squid
Book Status Beta 5 should be out early this week, featuring a mostly new chapter on testing legacy projects, and also updating the code setup and the initial walkthrough chapters to Rails 3. Over the next couple betas any remaining Rails 3 incompatibilities will also be fixed.
Book Reviews Something new for you on a Monday, a couple of novels that I liked in the last couple of weeks.
Kraken, by China Mieville.
Programming Perl, Personal Edition
Due to circumstances somewhat beyond my control, I find myself working in the largest Perl project I’ve ever done. Now, I’m not in the least interested in a “my language is better than your language” deal because a) this strikes me as very well covered territory, and b) it seems particularly pointless as the Perl 6 team appears to be doing a nice job of taming Perl’s more rococo features.