perldreamer

• About: To sleep, perchance to dream about perl

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• Commented on GitHub is an amazing service that much of the Perl community has...
  Whether you like github or not, none of those other services that y'all have mentioned decided to sponsor YAPC::NA. It seems like awfully bad manners to be mentioning alternatives in the very thread that announces their contribution....
• Commented on You Should Take Amtrak To More Places
  Rail travel is more efficient than cars and planes. Also, you can use Amtrak to offset your carbon footprint: http://www.nationaltrainday.com/articles/moving-green/...
• Commented on A compelling reason for Perl6
  @Shantanu, there is a solid CMS in perl. It's called WebGUI....
• Commented on YAPC::NA 2012 in Madison, WI
  If it's too expensive to go to Madison directly, fly into Milwaukee, or Chicago. And drive the rest of the way, carpooling with someone. Or catch the bus....
• Commented on Perl is dead? Great! Now get back to work.
  Perl is dead!!?? I didn't even know it was sick....

Comment Threads

• JT Smith commented on You Should Take Amtrak To More Places

  Yup, train travel in Europe is vastly superior to train travel in the United States, primarily because Europe is so small by comparison, so the time frames are shorter, and the trains go absolutely everywhere. It was my trips to Europe that made me give Amtrak a shot in the first place.

  While it takes longer to get places here than it does in Europe, the ride is still amazing in the US; and in many cases has far more amenities than the trains I've travelled on in Europe. The level of amenities probably has a lot to do with competing with airlines, and the longer travel times.

• :m) commented on You Should Take Amtrak To More Places

  I think it has to do a lot with history and mentality.
  There are very densely populated areas in the US which would justify a fine mesh of train routes.
  As for the long distances: There are trains available which travel at about 350km/h. So even for the 4100 km from N.Y to San Francisco this would be a trip of "only" about 12-15 hours. This of course, needs a certain infrastructure.
  You see dismantled railways in many countries, which is sad, I believe. An infrastructure was sacrificed to the automobile (and less to the airplane) some decades ago.
  

• Joel Berger commented on GitHub is an amazing service that much of the Perl community has...

  I love GitHub and use it for all my development. Check me out https://github.com/jberger. Thanks for sponsoring YAPC::NA, see you there!

• Olaf Alders commented on GitHub is an amazing service that much of the Perl community has...

  I was pleasantly surprised to see Github on board as a sponsor. YAPC::NA 2012 is already shaping up very nicely. :)

• Steven Haryanto commented on GitHub is an amazing service that much of the Perl community has...

  @perldreamer: Well said.

  Besides, for public git repos it shouldn't matter which one you choose. They're sort of like offsite-backups. I've so far used github, bitbucket, gitorious, repo.or.cz, and it's just a matter of adding a couple of lines in your .git/config. But so far I'm most pleased with github (the attention to details in UI, the availability, the features). So go github!