Now that I write blog software, I never post anything...
Oh well. Anyway...
I went to LinuxFest Northwest yesterday with fuzzyredmittens and scarletwilde. I hung out at the Mono Project table and gave away some books and t-shirts that Miguel sent over for the occasion. Coincidentally, the Mono Project booth was set up right next to the MySQL booth, which was manned by none other than Gerry and a couple of his kiddos. Gerry and I manned the MySQL booth together in 2006, and it was good to be sitting next to him again this year.
Tim Maher, retired president for life of the Seattle Perl Users' Group and recipient of the White Camel, was selling copies of his Minimal Perl in the exhibition hall. I bought a copy and Tim even signed it for me. Whee! This is the first book that I've got an acknowledgement in, so I had to have a copy.
Quite a few fun folks stopped by the booth including Paul Bartell, brad, Allison, chromatic and lots of folks with questions, comments, rants and concerns about the Mono project.
We've got a shower for baby Zelda today, so we're not going to be attending the second day of the conference. I hope I'm forgiven... :)
Although Hannah offered to let me sleep in this morning, I couldn't fall back asleep after about 5:15. So I'm writing down some the thoughts that kept me up...
1) Moose helps perl devs create classes that are nearly CLS compliant. It would be nice to either patch Moose to fully implement CLS compliant classes or create a CLI:: namespace with classes that are CLS compliant. OMG! Strongly typed Perl!!!
2) It would be nice to target Perl to the CIL virtual machine. What is the process of adding another architecture to Perl's vast target suite?
3) Module::Starter::Moose, Module::Starter::DotNet, Class::Mop, Class::CLS ECMA335::*
blah blah blah :)
I went to LinuxFest Northwest yesterday with fuzzyredmittens and scarletwilde. I hung out at the Mono Project table and gave away some books and t-shirts that Miguel sent over for the occasion. Coincidentally, the Mono Project booth was set up right next to the MySQL booth, which was manned by none other than Gerry and a couple of his kiddos. Gerry and I manned the MySQL booth together in 2006, and it was good to be sitting next to him again this year.
Tim Maher, retired president for life of the Seattle Perl Users' Group and recipient of the White Camel, was selling copies of his Minimal Perl in the exhibition hall. I bought a copy and Tim even signed it for me. Whee! This is the first book that I've got an acknowledgement in, so I had to have a copy.
Quite a few fun folks stopped by the booth including Paul Bartell, brad, Allison, chromatic and lots of folks with questions, comments, rants and concerns about the Mono project.
We've got a shower for baby Zelda today, so we're not going to be attending the second day of the conference. I hope I'm forgiven... :)
Although Hannah offered to let me sleep in this morning, I couldn't fall back asleep after about 5:15. So I'm writing down some the thoughts that kept me up...
1) Moose helps perl devs create classes that are nearly CLS compliant. It would be nice to either patch Moose to fully implement CLS compliant classes or create a CLI:: namespace with classes that are CLS compliant. OMG! Strongly typed Perl!!!
2) It would be nice to target Perl to the CIL virtual machine. What is the process of adding another architecture to Perl's vast target suite?
3) Module::Starter::Moose, Module::Starter::DotNet, Class::Mop, Class::CLS ECMA335::*
blah blah blah :)