A Little Quiz This is hypothetical so don’t read too deeply into it. Let’s say you’re walking across town carrying some heavy bags. Let’s also say that you’re walking in front of a bicycle shop and the owner is out front sweeping. Let’s say that the owner offers to give you one of his cheaper bicycles for free because (he says) he’s been in your... Read more 30 May 2009 - 1 minute read
Classes Vs. Roles Ovid recently asked if there was ever a reason to use Inheritance over Composition. Stevan answered that question rather eloquently but the whole thing has me thinking about the relationship between Classes and Roles. Object Orientation has no bearing on the real world. It’s framework for building metaphors that hopefully help... Read more 28 May 2009 - 3 minute read
Mutant Weasels I was reading a blog post recently that mentioned the Dawkins Weasel program. I have always wanted to play around with Genetic Algorithms and this one seemed simple enough to hack at for a few hours. Four hours later I think I have something that can illustrate Modern Moose nicely ( Spacecataz this is specifically for you, seduce ... Read more 21 May 2009 - 6 minute read
The Small Business Rant Recently Scott McWhirter sent me the following video. </param></param></param></embed> We’ve been discussing the state of Entrepreneurship in the Perl community. Mostly that it doesn’t seem to exist. Read more 18 May 2009 - less than 1 minute read
I thought I’d take a stab at showing off a bot framework I’d written at the hackathon during the first Frozen Perl. The framework is known as either Adam or Moses depending on who you’re talking to, and is available on GitHub Adam lays all the framework and Moses brings in the declarative sugar and magic. So let’s take a look at a quick bot I w... Read more 18 May 2009 - 3 minute read