At least one of you was a little miffed at something I said in last week’s post about dynamic languages and virtual machines, and there was probably more than one of you, so I thought it would only be ...

I've got a bit of downtime at work and decided to re-learn Perl. I learn by doing, not reading. I've done all the problems in the Learning Perl book (they're all pretty damned simple), and wrote a ...

In the older days of open source software, major projects tended to have their Benevolent Dictators For Life who made all the final decisions, and some mature projects still operate that way. Guido ...