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progBig reshuffling of office space in progress at ITA this week. I've been upgraded to a nicer cube on the 7th floor, though sadly am surrounded by strangers. On the third hand, it's pretty quiet here, as I'm no longer sitting next to company-knowledge gurus and their attendant conversation vortices.
Something's messed up with my network drop; they did a good job transferring random crap I had on my desk, but I think someone pocketed my internets. I have asked Dan to put in a requisition for some new ones. If I don't get any by 4 or so I'm goin home. Yes, I am billing for this.
At least I'm getting some self-improvement in, reading Damian Conway's Perl Best Practices in the meantime.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
daerr bought a couple copies for the office last year and I've always meant to get into it. I'm about halfway through now, and am finding it brilliant.
I think that Conway may be my favorite technical author. It was another of his books taught me object-oriented programming many years ago. His presentations have a reputation for being especially wacky, but his writing sublimates his sense of humor into subtlety, making the text uniformly informative and engaging. Contrast this with the lame, chunky-style humor perpetrated by way too many tech book authors who think that they're the next Larry Wall. Including, sometimes, Larry Wall. (Also including myself; I'm a little embarrassed now by the excesses of "humor" in Perl & XML).
I may go to an MIT entrepreneur workshop thing with Jared tonight. I haven't been to one since before Origins, and all the adventures that Volity Games has had in the meantime would give me a real change in perspective. I dunno though.
Something's messed up with my network drop; they did a good job transferring random crap I had on my desk, but I think someone pocketed my internets. I have asked Dan to put in a requisition for some new ones. If I don't get any by 4 or so I'm goin home. Yes, I am billing for this.
At least I'm getting some self-improvement in, reading Damian Conway's Perl Best Practices in the meantime.
daerr bought a couple copies for the office last year and I've always meant to get into it. I'm about halfway through now, and am finding it brilliant.I think that Conway may be my favorite technical author. It was another of his books taught me object-oriented programming many years ago. His presentations have a reputation for being especially wacky, but his writing sublimates his sense of humor into subtlety, making the text uniformly informative and engaging. Contrast this with the lame, chunky-style humor perpetrated by way too many tech book authors who think that they're the next Larry Wall. Including, sometimes, Larry Wall. (Also including myself; I'm a little embarrassed now by the excesses of "humor" in Perl & XML).
I may go to an MIT entrepreneur workshop thing with Jared tonight. I haven't been to one since before Origins, and all the adventures that Volity Games has had in the meantime would give me a real change in perspective. I dunno though.