Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:44:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Rev Simon Rumble <simon@rumble.net> Reply-To: "London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers" <london.pm@london.pm.org> To: london.pm@london.pm.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] [LPW] thanks and slides
Big thanks to the speakers, even the hat-of-shamers. I really enjoyed it, learnt a number of useful things and have been re-inspired to do more Perl.
My impression is that Nigel Hamilton is Ted Nelson's love child.
Monday, November 28, 2005
Nigel and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Following Nigel's presentation on Saturday, here's a posting to the London Perl Mongers' mailing list:
Then There Were Five.
I'm glad that Jennifer Mitchell has joined our team today.
Having interviewed 10 applicants on Thursday, Jennifer shone out from the group to become our new marketing assistant.
Now that makes five of us!
Having interviewed 10 applicants on Thursday, Jennifer shone out from the group to become our new marketing assistant.
Now that makes five of us!
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Decoupling Turbo10 + Trexy
Meg and I made an important decision a couple of months ago to separate the Turbo10 and Trexy cluster. We wanted Trexy to have the best chance of growing without conflicting with the high growth on the Turbo10 cluster. It's hard enough managing the load pattern of just one search engine. Two separate clusters means we can tune each cluster to best serve its search engine. We are now receiving over 26 million hits per day on the Turbo10 network!
It was a tough decision to make at the time. But the last week has shown it was the right one. The variation in load on Turbo10 has not affected Trexy at all.
On Friday the legal arrangements will also come into effect. It's really exciting!
It was a tough decision to make at the time. But the last week has shown it was the right one. The variation in load on Turbo10 has not affected Trexy at all.
On Friday the legal arrangements will also come into effect. It's really exciting!
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
CV Mania
Last Thursday I posted an advertisement for another Marketing Assistant. So far we have received 43 applications. I have shortlisted nine for interviews tomorrow.
Rena and I will be conducting the initial interviews with a follow-up meeting on Friday morning so Nigel and Sven and can give the green light.
Hopefully we'll have a new person beginning by next week.
Rena and I will be conducting the initial interviews with a follow-up meeting on Friday morning so Nigel and Sven and can give the green light.
Hopefully we'll have a new person beginning by next week.
Saturday, November 12, 2005
Tandem Trails
Sven seems to find things quicker than me and I end up saying, "where did you find that?"
To which he says, "follow my trail."
Instead of doing the hard work of wading through web pages I get presented with a trail that's right on target! ;-)
To which he says, "follow my trail."
Instead of doing the hard work of wading through web pages I get presented with a trail that's right on target! ;-)
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Goo Trails
I've used many of the ideas behind Trexy to help with my own programming productivity.
I wrote a system called "The Goo" that helps me stick "Things" together behind the scenes. The Goo leaves a "Trail" behind in your working environment. I've decided to open source the software behind The Goo as a thank you to all the other open source software developers who have helped me.
You can find it here: http://thegoo.org.
I wrote a system called "The Goo" that helps me stick "Things" together behind the scenes. The Goo leaves a "Trail" behind in your working environment. I've decided to open source the software behind The Goo as a thank you to all the other open source software developers who have helped me.
You can find it here: http://thegoo.org.
More Bugs ...
Meg and Rena have done a great job in finding more bugs in the Beta version. Sven and I are going to have a concentrated bug killing session tomorrow.
A new robot is also going to start running: Darius the Dead Link Manager. Darius will be responsible for removing dead steps in trails (i.e., 404 URLs). We were considering preserving trail links and enabling users to access missing pages via the the Way Back When Machine at archive.org but it seems too slow. Our tests show a 10+ second response time.
We may return to this system later if speed improves or we find a better archived page provider.
A new robot is also going to start running: Darius the Dead Link Manager. Darius will be responsible for removing dead steps in trails (i.e., 404 URLs). We were considering preserving trail links and enabling users to access missing pages via the the Way Back When Machine at archive.org but it seems too slow. Our tests show a 10+ second response time.
We may return to this system later if speed improves or we find a better archived page provider.
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