FLOSS Weekly 27: Ward Cunningham is, in my opinion, the best episode of FLOSS Weekly so far. Which I can say without guessing, because I listend to them all.
Part of my excitement is probably the fact that the things that Ward Cunningham has contributed are what I am pursuing to propagate at may dayjob right [...]

If you are a Perl professional and you feel that the way you and your co-workers use Perl is not entirely flawless, Tim Bunce’s slides about Perl myths are a must-read for you.
I stumbled over it, read the first few pages and greedily slurped it to the end. These slides contain some nice-to-know Perl details [...]

I am currently unable to use the visual editor in wordpress. I first ran into the problem in my default browser, which happens to be Firefox. After a few futile attempts to load the editor, I gave IE a try. It didn’t load either, but I discovered a funny link at the bottom of the [...]

A few weeks ago I joined Goodreads. A few days ago I installed a wordpress plugin that displays three of the books on my ‘currentl reading’ shelf. This plugin uses the RSS features delivered with wordpress. It fetches the feed belonging to the shelf, grabs the first three items and displays them in my sidebar.
I [...]

Here’s a both entertaining and interesting introductory lesson about David Allen’s Getting Things Done. This guy seems to really know what he’s talking about. I already put the book on my wishlist. I guess he could make his point clear with a little less jumping around on stage, but if that’s his preferred way of [...]

20 chapters of Python should be a foundation solid enough to let me start learning yet another language without mixing the new knowledge up. Well, at least I am gonna give it a try. So here’s what I found out while reading Programming Ruby.

When overriding a method in a subclass, the keyword super suffices on [...]

Perl
Python

my $x = 10;
sub foo
{
$x = 20;
}

x = 10
def foo():
global x
x = 20

Declaring a variable in a function as global is only necessary for reassignments, not for mere read-access.
def foo(x, y, z): pass
foo(10, 20, 30)
does the same as
[...]

elsif is called elif.
Parens around boolean tests are optional.
A semicolon can be put at the end of any statement to make it look like C.
Parts of statements enclosed in parens, curlies or brackets may span over multiple lines.
Since parens may be wrapped around each expression, virtually anything can be spread over [...]

I had some idiosyncratic learning experiences lately. I read something about two things I want to learn about and suddenly, without explicitly searching for it, stumble upon something that deals with both of them. This happened again this morning. The two things that I was already learning were Python and the Template Toolkit.
As a Python [...]

In the wikipedia article about information retrieval it says:
It is trivial to achieve fall-out of 0% by returning zero documents in response to any query.

If you are not into information retrieval and don’t want to read about it, here’s what the above says in layman’s terms: It is trivial to say nothing wrong by not [...]