My friend Jean-François Noubel has taken the vow of wealth. I believe this has huge implications for all of us. It opens a path by inspiration and example. Read the FAQ too.
Monthly Archive for September, 2009
I was looking at how perl6 is coming along and found this: http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-5-to-6/ which is really cool. Besides being a really nice presentation of the material (including the “Motivation” section) there’s just lotsa nice stuff. Some of the new way outa here cool perl6 features:
- meta operators
- gather/take construct for lazy lists
- grammars
- Enums
- twigils
- custom operators
And that’s just a few…
So today a bunch of our websites went down, and the scripts I had in place to monitor for this type of occasion hadn’t been updated for some time so the new websites weren’t even in the scripts. Upshot: I didn’t notice for too long.
Then I went looking for web-site status monitoring tools, and well, as usual, I didn’t find anything I liked, so it’s once again it was roll-your-own time! So I created a little sinatra based web app to make it easy to add in new sites and see their current status, if they go down have a per-site list of e-mail addresses be notified, etc.
The resulting goodness is called zuptime and is open sourced and available for all to play with!
The meme of coming multi-currency world is beginning to be visible to the main stream. To see how, watch this Wall Street Journal tech video by Andy Jordan. Not only is yours truly and the MetaCurrency project shown (I’m not really an economist BTW), but also some other nice efforts that show the growth in understanding of what currency can be.