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Classic Dilemma?

I've recently had the opportunity to start thinking about a huge ground up project on the scale of 1Xmonths.  I think this is something that we all dream about. Having the freedom to do as we choose. Try out those ideas that we had that always got shot down by others for reasons good or bad. I found that before the I could start solving the problem, I had to decide what tools to use.

The scale of this project and the resources available dictate that more than one person will be working on it ( if not now, then in the future ) and they will most likely be pretty junior. And this is where the problem starts.

Perl.

Now I love Perl. I write Perl almost everyday even though I don't "code for a living" right now. I think Perl is creative, efficient, artistic and just plain fun. I'll also conjecture that well written perl is much faster than poorly written C since you can take advantage of the extra smart people who built the "guts of perl". Perl has a great community that generates reusable code to make your life easy ( usually ) too.  In short, Perl gud.

Unfortunately, just as with any other tool that is as powerful as Perl, it can be dangerous and a risk as well. In the hands of a novice, or just someone with bad coding practices, Perl can turn into a 9 headed hydra that thrives on kicking you in the nuts at 4am.

The new fangled languages like python and ruby. They have many nicities, but mostly they benefit from having good software design mechanics and good coding practices built into their very fiber. Python is fun, python is good and it makes you write clean code. However Python does not enjoy it when you try to do something that Python does not approve of. Python frowns on you for doing it "that" way.

Which brings me to my moral dilemma... go it alone and build my beautiful ivory tower of Perl or resort to python or *gasp* ruby and harness the power of the sloppy?

Love to ride

this is one reason why bikes are good.

lovetoride

V9030015

 

V9030024

here's two more..
everyone should ride more.

I hate...

I hate stupid arrogant people. I mean they really annoy me. I'm sitting in the conference about web2.0 and the morning session was awesome. I gave a talk about web services and why they're good for lots of people. Then a dude gave a great talk about virtualization. After that a guy gave a hard core talk about hacking cellphones and PostGIS to make location services. (Awesome awesome talk!)   And now comes the jackass. This dude from some unknown feed aggregator tool developer who's main claim to fame is that he wrote "8 books in the last 2 years". In my opinion if you have that much time to write books it means you're not doing anything of merit to write about.  He's explaining what web surfing means to the Japan Unix Society. It's getting embarrassing. I had really high hopes for his talk since the title equated to something about integrating web enabled technologies and "old school" technologies. I am very disappointed.  I wish people had a moderation interface. Oh wait, they do. bitchSlap() 

Trucks are for Men. ( and women too, if they like them )

Truck

This is a truck. It is a man's truck. No fancy ABS. No silly traction control. No air conditioning. No radio. Just 6 cyclinders.. big big cylinders. if you add them together it's five liters of truck luvin'.. have you ever tried to pick up five liters of water? It's a lot. Hence, this truck hauls ass. It has also hauled:

A fridge
a couch
the same couch again
a bed
my bike
a bunch of wood
and my sorry ass when my fancy subaru died from being too fancy.

it was a good truck and I miss it. It did not die... No, old trucks do not die. I just had to sell it to it's next loving owner when I left the country.

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ほにゃ♪

I love this star

Get my Mac on...

steve jobs took my lunch money

I finally broke down and did it. It took about 2 months of rationalization but I finally broke down and bought me one of them new fangled iMacs.. See that glow from the screen? That's Steve Jobs trying to suck my soul out. Anyway we kicked down and got the 24inch so we could watch DVDs on it and not have to buy a TV as well. Forgot one minor detail though .. it's not region free ... oops!

Japan has changed

What my forebearers always told me is that Japan was this strange little country where everything was small and dammit.. they like it that way .. small, compact, dull, expensive, uncomfortable, uphill both ways and that's the way it is .. like fish and rice!

Well, today I spit in the face of Hirohito, said screw the damn tatami mats, went to Ikea ( recently opened in Yokohama ) and bought me a damn couch. It's big ( for Japan ) it's far off the ground ( what so good about sitting on the ground anyway ) and it's orange. Take that wabi-sabi.

Got me a freakin' couch!

pimp seat