Crib Notes: Pimp Your Mac with Perl

Title: Pimp Your Mac with Perl Speaker: Mark Fowler Photobox URL: www.pimpyourmacwithperl.com All slides are on site. Highly recommend reviewing them. Apple standard perl is seriously broken. pbcopy/pbpaste for clipboard interaction from cli growl integration Numberous Perl modules to do this           Cocoa::Growl           Growl::Any     [...]

Poor server management

It’s interesting to note how many people operate servers without proper maintenance. Several times a week someone opens a support ticket where the system’s package manager is non-functional. Not only does this cause issues with doing something like installing Apache, but the larger issue is it means the system is not receiving security updates. In [...]

Python not mono

After reading kryogenic’s post about Mono, I must agree. Python, and one could even say Perl, Ruby, Scheme, etc, already offers cross-platform development, with more flexibility than the .net franchise.

There is something to be said about a language and framework controlled by a single company, especially when said company often shows itself to be [...]

PSP: Python Server Pages

Now this is cool! Harry Fuecks writes about Python Server Pages. Having worked with mod_python some years ago, I often wanted something like this. While momentum for Python as a server-side language is not as strong as for Perl or PHP (Hard Hat Hosting not withstanding), it is possible this will help increase the demand. [...]