Posted by Yanick Champoux on Oct 8, 2009
picture by Geophaps
Hey, that one in the sixth row…
Doesn’t he looks familiar?
So there I am, on my morning bus ride, reading my copy of The Definitive Guide to Catalyst (keep your eyes peeled for the upcoming review of the book in the Perl Review).
I’m near the end, in Chapter 11, Catalyst Cookbook. As it is with most tech books, the last chapters are the most engrossing, as the gloves finally come of and the writers throw at you all the wonderful, mind-bending stuff that the rest of the book prepares you for.
The section I’m at is about the development process. Specifically, it shows how you can put hooks in your versioning system to automatically screen commits to conform to Perl::Critic and Perl::Tidy policies. The given example script uses Git, which is just dandy with me as it is my current VCS of choice. But there’s something . . . funny about that script. The way the utility functions are stashed at the end after a
### utility functions ##############################
line. The choice of variable names. The comments. It all feels oddly familiar. Read the rest of this entry . . .
Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Sep 9, 2009
Are you an Oracle blogger attending Oracle Open World 2009?
If so, you are invited to attend this Oracle Bloggers Meetup during OOW 2009 — a chance to meet your online buddies face-to-face in relaxed and informal atmosphere.
What: OOW 2009 Bloggers Meetup
When: Tue, 13-Oct, 6:00pm
Where: LJ’s Martini Club & Grill @ Metreon 2nd Floor, 101 4th Street, San Francisco Updated: 13-Oct!
It’s a big disappointment that Eddie Awad is not going to be with us at the Oracle Open World this year… But the show must go on and Oracle Bloggers Meetup must happen again this year so I’m picking up the baton from Eddie and will organize the meetup this year with the help of Justin Kestelyn and Lillian Buziak (Oracle ACE Wrangler).
First things first, thanks to OTN for sponsoring our gathering again — just like the last year, we will have drinks served for a while. But there are some differences from the previous years…
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Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Jul 29, 2008
Back in May 2006, I have started my blog using the Blogger platform and one month later moved it to my own website using Wordpress. Couple month later, I joined Pythian and, since then, the vast majority of my blogging activities has been on the Pythian Group Blog.
The Pythian blog has grown significantly since then and many more excellent authors started blogging there. While the Pythian blog was mostly focused on Oracle database just a couple years ago, it’s has got very broad coverage now and is including MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle databases as well as Oracle Application Server, Oracle eBusiness Suite and other enterprise software. While I think this is a great opportunity to entend your area of interests, it might be just too much for some as few people already complained and unsubscribed to avoid being overwhelmed with information. That was painful to hear!
First of all, I should say that there is a way to subscribe only to a selected category or a single author — just add /feed/ at the end of pretty much any page. For example, all my blog posts can be seen using URL http://www.pythian.com/blogs/author/alex and RSS feed URL would be http://www.pythian.com/blogs/author/alex/feed/. Likewise, the Oracle category RSS feed is http://www.pythian.com/blogs/category/oracle/feed/. Read the rest of this entry . . .
