Tanktalus

• About: I don't blog. And when I do, I more or less still don't.

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• Commented on Do your piece to fix TIOBE or stop talking about it
  I think the basic problem with TIOBE is that their concept is wrong. They are using a proxy for interest, a proxy that doesn't really mean what they say it does, and then making conclusions from it. Much like the...
• Commented on Galileo 0.012 released!
  Can this work in a shared-hosting environment (e.g., Apache’s vhosts + FastCGI)? I’ve been looking for a perl-based CMS that I could deploy so I could possibly customise it with some existing data....
• Commented on Counter-productive over time
  My major problem with dependencies is simple: the lawyers. They want to check everything before we can use it, and thrice before we can redistribute it. There is a form for each distribution. If everything I need is in a...
• Commented on Perils of Plugins
  I would have thought that if I wanted to work with $self->get_postal->get_state, and not all postals have get_state, I should check. Checking the iso code against US seems off - not only for the reason you point out, that it...
• Commented on Extensible Maintainable Subroutines and Methods
  I alternate between the two styles. I use hashrefs for big, monolithic functions. I use a single parameter for small functions. And a list of parameters for list functions. (I bet you thought that was going to be "medium functions".)...
• Commented on Is PCLI possible?
  Not always applicable. And for many uses of env vars, where they aren’t configuring stuff that can’t also be configured another way, I don’t see much advantage here. It’s not like a web app that might be running under...

Comment Threads

• zaki commented on Do your piece to fix TIOBE or stop talking about it

  I'm curious if we can use the <abbr> tag or title attribute to tag the word Perl with "Perl programming language" and still have it be indexed. That way we can use Perl and still have the text flow naturally.

• Neil Bowers commented on Do your piece to fix TIOBE or stop talking about it

  I've added a quest stencil on Questhub: update 5 pages as per Mithaldu's directions. I've just kicked it off by taking 5 easy wins on wikipedia :-)

• Shlomi Fish commented on Do your piece to fix TIOBE or stop talking about it

  In any case, since I am unhappy with TIOBE being taken for granted, without close reconsideration, I decided to do my part in educating people against it using my newly created anti-TIOBE page (which is just another page in my section of pa…

• Mithaldu commented on Do your piece to fix TIOBE or stop talking about it

  @zaki: I don't know, but giving it a try can't hurt. :)

  @neilb: Thanks, i'll have to publicize that in a future post.

  @shlomi: The fact that you think an armsrace can take place here means you've missed some facts about TIOBE. Please do poke me on IRC if you'd like me to elaborate. Also, all your links only explain why TIOBE is bad, which is correct because it's faulty, but miss that TIOBE matters despite being bad. Again something i'll happily explain to you on IRC.

• JJ Merelo commented on Do your piece to fix TIOBE or stop talking about it

  Still as needed as ever...