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  • using the XSLT scissors on jobs.perl.org

    The Honorable Grey Temples Guy in Charge of jobs.perl.org didn’t show the slightest interest within months. I had asked him, whether he couldn’t make that thing restrictable on the “Terms of employment”.

    Their RSS feed is rather readable XML, the information is embedded within a nice tag: Thanks for that! So this will be one my next XSLT finger exercises. And obviously it will come ad free. I hope, that’s not causing trouble. Anybody interested in seeing this in a public place? I mean, there must be thousands of Perl freelancers out there annoyed by all these Salaried employee job specs on jobs.perl.org. Give me a shout!

  • “you make me feel like …”

    Love Note WIN – FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Funny Pictures and Funny Videos of Owned, Pwned and Fail Moments

  • my blogs, my blog followers, my IM contacts, Jabber SPAM

    I have no idea, how often my blog articles get read. I have no idea, whether my friends read my blogs. I am not too optimistic there.

    But I do have quite an extensive list of IM contacts. And there is that nice book on XMPP resp. Jabber at O’Reilly’s. Why not write an application, that takes my blogs’ syndication feeds and broadcasts them to my IM contacts. Maybe that will make my IM contacts list quite shorter in a pretty short time. Who knows?

    Maybe there is already some software out there, that does exactly that or just almost. Maybe you want to tell me.

  • Wanderlust, Michael Lopp, and my FRITZ!Box call monitor

    Just the way Michael Lopp describes it in his book Being Geek — The Software Developer’s Career Handbook in the section on Wanderlust, I have carried around that idea with me for quite a while, that I would like to be able to see on my phones, from which company somebody is calling, in case I don’t have a specific entry for him/her in my address book.

    Today I got up and I knew, the feature is actually already implemented. I do maintain a list of country calling codes, which my call monitor actually reads, when it starts up. Today I just understood, that a company’s core phone number is just a little longer than a country calling code, but actually my software doesn’t mind that. So I started adding company core phone numbers to that list.

    And from now on, that should only be rare occasions, where I don’t know, from which recruiting company and which location, the recruiter is calling from. I love it.

  • a familiar, touching tone…

    Did that ever occur to you?

    Somebody playing the piano in your neighborhood, a familiar tone, a song from long ago, from very long ago, and it got you crying?

    That happened to me right now. The tune was The Beatles’ Yesterday. It wasn’t played perfectly, apparently with just one hand, the guy was exercising apparently, a few false tones, it was getting better, the further he got. He hadn’t played it in quite some years. It was played with an attempt for the right intonations, staccatos, breaks…

    Did it remind him of a couple of yesterdays? Guess so! Names, places, embracements, kisses, some shy, some not, tears, despair, disasters… – healing and recoveries as well? We don’t know.

    Oh, actually I do know. It was “idiot me” opening the songbook on just the right page for today. Do you want to join me shedding tears?
    Let me see, what pages that songbook still has for me!
    …
    Spent a splendid time in the kids’ / music room now, playing the piano and finally also the guitar. Poor neighbors also had to bear me singing.

  • code-diesel: 6 essential cURL commands for daily use

    6 essential cURL commands for daily use

  • Illumos launched as OpenSolaris derivative – The H Open Source: News and Features

    Illumos launched as OpenSolaris derivative – The H Open Source: News and Features

  • Being Geek – your career in IT – O’Reilly Media

    Being Geek – O’Reilly Media

    I plan on having a talk on this book at a very nice location in Berlin, like these ones:

    Who wants to join?

    Update / 2010-08-03 17:30 : Here is the Doodle poll link for the event. Pls mention your preferred location!

    Update / 2010-08-05 :
    There are not just friends out there, means: I had to find a way to make sure, the poll doesn’t get screwed by trolls.

    I spoke to O’Reilly at Cologne – participants well get a few free copies.

    Update / 2010-08-09 :
    Talked to a well-known German chain book store today. The presentation will take place there, but not very soon. Any TV or radio broadcasting station interested in this?
    Whoever wants to have a look into the book and let me summarize the contents: contact me and we will find time and place to do so!
    Should there really be enough people showing interest, we can meet at c-base.org or just about anywhere in town. Contact me!

    Abstract:
    As a software engineer, you recognize at some point that there’s much more to your career than dealing with code. Is it time to become a manager? Tell your boss he’s a jerk? Join that startup? Author Michael Lopp recalls his own make-or-break moments with Silicon Valley giants such as Apple, Netscape, and Symantec in Being Geek — an insightful and entertaining book that will help you make better career decisions.

    With more than 40 standalone stories, Lopp walks through a complete job life cycle, starting with the job interview and ending with the realization that it might be time to find another gig. Many books teach you how to interview for a job or how to manage a project successfully, but only this book helps you handle the baffling circumstances you may encounter throughout your career.

    • Decide what you’re worth with the chapter on “The Business”
    • Determine the nature of the miracle your CEO wants with “The Impossible”
    • Give effective presentations with “How Not to Throw Up”
    • Handle liars and people with devious agendas with “Managing Werewolves”
    • Realize when you should be looking for a new gig with “The Itch”

  • Firefox plug-in NoScript 2.0 released – The H Security: News and Features

    Firefox plug-in NoScript 2.0 released

  • web-sites created with DocBook Website and the trolls all over

    A few trolls get along in mailing lists, trying to bash me for the web-sites I created with DocBook Website.

    I guess they are in the middle of their adolescence, but they let everybody know, that the HTML is shitty.

    WTF do they care?
    • It looks impressive to ordinary people and potential customers.
    • It’s trivially created for somebody with the right know-how and easily maintained, w/o a fat CMS underneath,
    • and a pimpled PHP programmer alongside.

    Take this rule for serious:

      Don’t you let the cheap little creeps get at your nerves!!!

        But still: they always attempt to steal your time and energy with their lousy behavior.

        Update / 2010-08-02:
        This discussion is quite similar to this one: high-order languages vs. assembly languages.
        These guys, that are into assembly languages often argue, that hand-written machine code is so much nicer than the one generated by compilers from high-order language code.
        WTF asks that question and who wants to know? Not me. So R.I.P.!