jerakeen.org / talkshttp://jerakeen.org/talks/2009-06-11T10:00:22ZTom Insamtom@jerakeen.orghttp://jerakeen.orgThe Small Stuff2009-06-11T10:00:22Ztag:jerakeen.org,2009:/talks/the-small-stuff
<p>A talk I gave at the <a href="http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.25940"><span class="caps">BCS</span> Evening of Dynamic Languages</a> event, on some of the small, trivial, and therefore really annoying differences between the four programming languages I spend the most time using.
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51.511300 -0.121831E4X2006-05-30T10:18:26Zhttp://jerakeen.org/talks/e4x/
<p>A talk I gave at the <a href="http://london.pm.org/ljs-200605/">london javascript night</a> in May 2006, on <span class="caps">E4X</span>, the native <span class="caps">XML</span> datatype for the JavaScript language.
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<p>The talk was only 5 minutes long, and I had way too much material, so I blasted throught it very quickly, and noone had time to focus on any of the dubious code.
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<p>A very full house, too - scary. I can’t find many <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/londonjavascriptnight/">photos</a> of the event, though.
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Writing IRC bots with Bot::BasicBot2006-05-14T16:26:42Zhttp://jerakeen.org/talks/writing-irc-bots-botbasicbot/<p><a href="http://jerakeen.org/talks/2006/05/writing-irc-bots-botbasicbot/"><img src="http://jerakeen.org/files/thumbnail/picture-1.jpg" style="border: none"></a></p>
<p>A talk
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Perl Loves UTF-82005-10-16T18:57:32Zhttp://jerakeen.org/talks/perl-loves-utf8/
<p>Given for the first time at the <a href="http://london.pm.org">london.pm</a> tech-meet at the Fotango offices on 2005/02/24, this was a 5-minute rant about perl, character sets, and why noone can ever get them right. The slides were written in OmniGraffle for some bizarre reason, but I think it worked quite well, and may use the technique again some time.
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<h2>Other utf-8 resources</h2>
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<a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html">The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (Joel)</a> - this is really really good. Not so good for perl specifics (and other languages with ‘real’ string types) - it talks mostly about maintaining byte sequences internally, and not some characters in an abstract ‘string’ type, but good for the history lesson.
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<a href="http://www.twoshortplanks.com/talks/utf8/">Mark’s utf-8 talk</a> - the specifics of using perl to deal with utf-8.
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