Marc and I have discussed blogging many times and why we want to do it. One reason we never came up with – “so we can enter the Guardian’s Best of British Blogs competition”.

Damian Conway is coming to Belfast again in September. This time he will be teaching three courses: Data-Munging with Perl; Object-Oriented Perl and Advanced Module Implementation Techniques. He will also be speaking to Belfast.pm

A few things that I have been reading lately (Beowulf’s blog, Never Wrestle With a Pig and MJD’s Conference Presentation Judo) have made me think about just how critical programmers can be. I’m considering submitting a proposal for a talk at one of the Perl conferences which sounds like a good idea but means having to talk to a room full of programmers. Programmers – the type of people who go to see a great presentation and it’s spoilt by one or two typos on a slide, the type of people who are willing to discard everything you’ve said because they don’t like the way you indented your code, the type of people who allow the smallest of trivial details to distract them and are first to point out why something isn’t exactly correct. How can I be sure of this? Because I’m a programmer.

I was reading an article in Dr Dobb’s Journal on the way to work this morning about Tiny Perl Server Pages. I have never heard of Tiny Perl Server Pages before and I couldn’t understand why everything in the article seemed to be familiar. I was about half-way through this when I realised why it didn’t seem new: we have implemented a system that works in an similar way to this one.

It made me wonder if all across the world companies that use Perl for building web based applications are all busy writing the same thing.

Finally Marty has set-up Movable Type! Isn’t he great?