I think I have finally realized today why I don’t like “corporate” and “enterprise” programmers and the technologies that they enjoy, like Java and XML. Many of them don’t take languages like Perl, Python, and PHP seriosly. Text files in general and the word “script” in particular make smile. I think, many of them are … Continue reading Thought of the day
Pretty often, in the mailing lists, people ask why should they use one solution instead of another. There is a similar discussion on mod_perl mailing list. While there are, as usual, a number of reasons to use Perl over Java, it gets interesting when it comes to examples and references. Particularly, these lines from reply … Continue reading Advantages of mod_perl over Java servlets
For the last three days, Olga and I were watching the trology of Three Colors – “Blue“, “White“, and “Red” on DVDs. It is a somewhat popular French masterpiece by Krzysztof Kieslowski. Neither Olga, nor I liked it. When I got all three DVDs in one pack, I was a bit puzzled as to in … Continue reading Three colors
Today I read an essey by Sean Russell called “RPM Hell. A Perfect Example of Good Software Crippled by Bad Design“. In this essey Sean is explaining why he does not like RPM to the level when he is prepared to change the Linux distribution he is using. I, on the other hand, do like … Continue reading Disagreement with Sean Russell’s RPM Hell
As I have already mentioned, today (technically yesterday) I have spent few hours playing paintball. It was the first experience of this kind for me, and so I want to share it just in case you want to try, but not sure wheather you should. Short answer: you should.