marcus ramberg

Larry in sunset by Marcus Ramberg

Last week, we arranged Nordic Perl Workshop in Oslo. I’ve uploaded some pictures from the conference and the hackathon that was arranged at LinPro the weekend after. I’ve tagged all my photos with npw2009.

Went to visit the Oslo rubyists today just to get the old worn out ‘But we heard perl is dead’, as a welcome. So worn out. Somehow they acknowledge that python is a nice language tho. So why has nobody heard from us in a while? Matt has a theory.

But here’s my point: Perl people hang out on mailing lists. We bottom post, carefully interleaved, with 76 character lines. We have signatures that meet the McQ standard for acceptable size. We hang out on IRC servers and bitch, moan, interact and collaborate with the aid of an 80×25 xterm with irssi, BitchX or IrcII in it[3]. Sometimes we sit at home with a beer and do one or more of the above. Forums? Meh. Those are the things the PHPtards like because they can’t figure out how to work a mailing list, right? Blogs? That’s not even a fucking word! I mean, in my day, we posted to usenet using Larry Wall’s rn that didn’t even have decent fucking threading, and we schlepped the posts about from one bnews spool to another over 1200 baud dialup links, and we liked it!

Obviously, those pesky kids never read our mailing lists ;) Luckily, Matt also has a plan. Join up to the Enlightened Perl: Blogging Iron Man competition now and show what you are made of! We can do it, yes we can :) And if we are really good, we’ll get to see Matt talk about why he loves bunnies with his hair dyed baby pink! Even if you’re not gonna blog, it’s worth reading for the sheer awesomeness of his rant :)

Apparently Catalyst and DBIx::Class powers one of the biggest porn sites in the world, YouPorn:

We operate one of the most visited Catalyst/DBIx::Class sites in the world with 90 million users and hundreds of millions of pageviews per day.

They are looking for contractors all over the world. No matter what you might think of the content, the stack they are using seems cool, pretty much the same libraries we use to power iusethis and our other sites.

So, there has been a lot of noise about the diggbar lately. I think Ted Dziuba of Uncov fame says it best:

This move shows that not only is Digg willing to pull some sleazy shit to increase their unique visitors, but that they also need to pull this sleazy shit, because they need more unique visitors.

In addition to our own web applications, Nordaaker provides various consulting services, mostly related to web development and Perl/Catalyst. We have just added a page describing those services to our home page. If you are interested in using our services, please send me an email. We are based in Oslo, Norway, but willing to travel/telecommute.

Goes to the gang at Macheist and Wil Shipley for their “spam all your twitter contacts and get delicious library for free” tweetblast. I fear this is just the beginning.
A strong runner-up
is @register_com, which seems to autoreply to anyone who mentions their service with a service notice

BigDiver shows us how to easily set up Komodo’s remote debugging to work with Catalyst. If you don’t like Komodo, you could also check out Leon’s Devel::ebug, which actually has a Catalyst-based frontend.