Easily output PDFs in your web app using Perl/Catalyst and Spanish.

INF - I'm not fool - QUE NO!!!: Generando PDF's usando Catalyst y PDF::CreateSimple

Slides presenting Catalyst Framework

Catalyst The Elegant MVC Web Framework

Fifty years ago this week, all eyes were on Little Rock, Arkansas, where nine black students were trying, for the first time, to desegregate a major Southern high school. The town of Grand Forks, North Dakota, with fewer than 150 blacks, hardly figured to be a key front in that battle - until Larry Lubenow talked to Louis Armstrong.

The day Louis Armstrong made noise - International Herald Tribune

"Resampling: The New Statistics"

by Julian L. Simon
Second Edition published October 1997

This text grew out of chapters in the 1969 edition of Basic Research Methods in Social Science by the same author, and contains the first published example of what was later called the bootstrap. Simon is best known for his research in demography, population and the economics of natural resources, and gained fame when the noted biologist Paul Ehrlich selected five commodities and bet Simon that scarcity would drive their prices up over the period of the bet (in fact, their prices all dropped). Resampling: The New Statistics contains a number of examples in Resampling Stats, a computer program originated by Simon, but can be read on its own without the program.

Resampling Stats

I'm a little reluctant to add to the wasteland that is this post and these comments, but here goes.

I'm familiar with the situation here. The deal was this: Derek was not a programmer; he was a musician. He learned some PHP and cobbled together the old CDBaby site by himself. It was good.

Then, he heard about Rails, and became infatuated with it. He proceeded to attempt a rolling rewrite of CDBaby's frontend and backend both (the backend is large, because of inter-label and digital distribution stuff) in Rails.

At this time, Derek had no experience with the following things:

* any language other than PHP
* systems integration and interoperability
* Rails
* object-orientation
* the MVC pattern
* managing a development team

Project fails. All right. As he has learned in #2, legacy compatibility trumps everything. Also, ship early and often.

As you can see in Derek's post about MySQL encodings, he's not always the clearest thinker. Even above he says that REST means POST-only destruction, which misses the point entirely.

His team was fine (mostly just Jeremy, until another developer was hired in the last months). Rails was fine. But there were a lot of things wrong with the project plan ("rewrite everything, eventually") and with the project leader, who was convinced he had found a silver bullet.

No framework saves you from your own inexperience.

Out.

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - O'Reilly Ruby

Documentation: Ideas for keeping programs fun to hack on even after they grow large. Object, lambda, hybrid structures, Perl specific methods of refactoring, object tricks, anti-patterns, non-structural recurring code patterns.

Perlage. Biggage. Rouphage.

Object::PerlDesignPatterns - Perl architecture for structuring and refactoring large programs - search.cpan.org

Atlanta Seed-Stage Second Office

AS3O is an open coffee group for entrepreneurs, freelancers, renegade venture capitalists, creative types, developers, etc. – anyone who would like to get together outside of the office/house on a laptop – to work. We looked around Atlanta for a community of startups, artists, small businesses, etc., and not finding the exciting, entrepreneurial nexus of our dreams, we figured we’d start one of our own.

We now meet every Friday at Inman Perk at 11AM. Feel free to show up, introduce your startup and get down to co-working.

http://www.as3o.org

Atlanta Seed-Stage Second Office

Road Warrior Training

Our Road Warrior training is designed for the frequent traveler or anyone wanting a deeper knowledge of the air travel experience. This course covers a wide variety of topics and important emergency procedures. Come experience a “behind the scenes” look at our state-of-the-art facilities for a full day of hands-on, interactive learning.

Participants will receive information on emergency exit door and window operation and aircraft decompression. They will also have several opportunities to ride in Delta’s motion-based cabin evacuation simulator, experience a smoke-filled cabin, and participate in a waterditching exercise.

Invest in your employees by demonstrating your concern for their individual safety and well-being. Bring your entire team, as this course is an excellent group-bonding event.

Sounds neat.

Delta's Road Warrior Training Program

And speaking of clever inventions, I want to give fair warning that next week I will make an announcement in this space so astounding that even my 83-year-old mother may pay attention. I intend to change the world a little bit and -- as always -- will need your help if I am to be successful.

In one week, Bob Cringley will come out of the closet.

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . I Report, You Decide | PBS

Mint allows you to view all of your banking and credit card transactions side-by-side, making identifying all of your transactions much easier and faster than ever before.

How does this help you? We make it easy for you to track down erroneous charges or bank fees, and keep a closer eye on your money.

Mint even lets you label your transactions so you know what bills you need to split with your friends or roommates, know which ones need to be reimbursed for your company, and more.

Great idea. Scary. Great idea.

Mint | Refreshing Money Management