binaryslate

Very funny, and I agree with all of them. I hate mis-interpretation in movies…

…either that, or I want a fully-fledged 3D shell interface!

1. Code does not move
In films and television code is always sailing across the screen at incredible speeds; it’s presented as an indecipherable stream of letters and numbers that make perfect sense to the programmer but dumbfound everyone else. I understand that to the non-savvy person the abilities of a programmer might seem amazingly complex, but do they honestly think we can read shit that isn’t sitting still? It’d be like trying to read six newspapers flying around in a tornado. Sure, I can watch a kernel compile, tail a log file, or simply monitor the scrolling output of a program - but the most value I get out of those activities is when execution stops and I can actually scroll back to read what the hell happened (unless the output was going slow enough I could read it as it happened).

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I’ve been over at developerWorks, quite a lot recently. So have a lot of other people, mainly those who inhabit digg.

There are just too many articles, and tutorials to get your head around, or for me to post links too. I suggest you all pop over there as they’ve got something for all tastes. And free too !

Sweet.

A few starting blocks, maybe

• xml
• open source
• linux

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… well no actually, but a few years ago I was a Perl hacker, I used perl 24/7 and the one place to go was PerlMonks. It’s been yonks since I was last there, and it’s not changed a tad ! Still great, thriving community, tons of useful info.

It’s a shame really, since I’ve been doing more web/php stuff I’ve never been able to locate a community that was anything like what I found at Perlmonks for the php community. If anyone knows of anywhere do shout out.

I mean how often can you get a personal response from Randal Schwartz on a post