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Ovid

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May 8, 2008 (18y ago)
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Expat living in France. Freelance Perl expert, two published books.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/ovidperl; my proof: https://keybase.io/ovidperl/sigs/kUGQjxJ-Tc9748BRd9cPnLmKUTUzisIDppJF61cvPr8 ]

  1. Getting past Joel Spolsky: how to rewrite that codebase (dev.to)
    1 points 0
  2. Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku (github.com)
    619 points 462
  3. We went from 39 transactions per second to 500 in just two weeks (bit.ly)
    1 points 0
  4. A different approach to beating Facebook (ovid.github.io)
    3 points 0
  5. Alan Kay and Missing Messages (ovid.github.io)
    115 points 59
  6. Death by Database: a short story of how a bad schema can hurt you company (ovid.github.io)
    2 points 3
  7. Easily clean up a team's remote Git branches (blogs.perl.org)
    1 points 2
  8. Perl, Python, and Ruby: The anatomy of a testing assertion (writemoretests.com)
    2 points 0
  9. The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install (mobiforge.com)
    857 points 466
  10. Why Perl 6 Is the “Game of Thrones” of Programming Languages (techbeacon.com)
    1 points 0
  11. The Zen of Test Suites (ovid.github.io)
    1 points 0
  12. When Agile is the wrong choice for your company (techbeacon.com)
    1 points 0
  13. How the Unicode Committee Broke the Apostrophe (tedclancy.wordpress.com)
    35 points 16
  14. How Agile Is Destroying Management (youtube.com)
    3 points 8
  15. SCO is back and continuing their lawsuit against IBM (sltrib.com)
    10 points 0
  16. Fake Amazon Tech Book Reviews Are Hurting My Book (blogs.perl.org)
    322 points 122
  17. Perl 6 for Mere Mortals – FOSDEM Video (youtube.com)
    4 points 0
  18. Stop putting AUTO_INCREMENT ids in URLs (blogs.perl.org)
    12 points 10
  19. Why More High-Tech Companies Are Doing Without Managers [video] (youtube.com)
    1 points 0
  20. Going Agile Can Hurt Your Company (linkedin.com)
    3 points 0
  21. This year's OSCON conference only had a single Ruby presentation (oscon.com)
    1 points 4
  22. Why Atom Won't Replace Vim (medium.com)
    3 points 3
  23. How to write a Perl app on Red Hat's OpenShift cloud platform (allaroundtheworld.fr)
    3 points 0
  24. Show HN: 3D rotating star map in JavaScript (ovid.github.io)
    4 points 1
  25. The Zen of Application Test Suites (github.com)
    6 points 0