Sequence, Selection and Iteration

draegtun — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:34:46 +0000

My bit of procrastination this afternoon was watching this entertaining and interesting keynote from RailsConf 2010 given by Robert Martin.

Here is the direct YouTube link

Don’t worry its not Rails or even Ruby loaded. The keynote goes through an interesting history of programming languages and on route Robert mentions Fortran, Lisp, Algol, BASIC, Simula, BCPL, B, C, Scheme, Smalltalk, C++, Perl, Java, Ruby, Erlang, C#, F#, Haskell and Clojure.

Hopefully I didn’t miss one? Strangely can’t recall Python being mentioned!?

/I3az/

PostgreSQL & Perl videos on Vimeo

draegtun — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:05:04 +0000

Came across a PostgreSQL channel on Vimeo the other day. This is a new channel containing video posts from the last PostgreSQL conference. Among them was a Perl talk by Matt Trout:

Perl Catalyst and DBIx::Class from Joshua Drake on Vimeo.

Matt comes to blows with the slideshow in above talk so you may prefer to watch a shortened version of this talk from the London Perl Workshop November 2008.

The slides can be found on Shadowcat’s website (requires Firefox).

More Perl videos are available though this tag does mix in some non related stuff but you can watch Giles Bowkett attempt:

Lightbulb Joke: Perl from giles goat boy on Vimeo.

or instead watch something that is really funny:

YAPC::EU Promo from Curtis Poe on Vimeo.

/I3az/

PS. I did try embedded the vimeo videos in post but WordPress decided to spit them out and just leave the placeholders ;-(

PPS. Now fixed! Use (vimeo ####) where #### is the video id from the vimeo URL and replace parenthesis with square brackets!

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Sequence, Selection and Iteration

PostgreSQL & Perl videos on Vimeo