Thursday, July 04, 2002

Happy 4th of July I forgot to mention that I went to the Damian Conway talk on Extreme Perl at the Boston Perl Mongers meeting. It wasn't about Extreme Programming, but rather about his entry in a recent obfuscated perl contest. I didn't make it through the talk. The code he present was such a horrible horrid mess mess that I started feeling ill. It reminded me too much of an actual system I had recently worked on, where one of the variable names went something like 'oh_na_no', goto's and globals abounded. <shudder> Everyone was alternately cheering Damian on and groaning, and I kept thinking "Man should I not use this language for large systems." 7:00:30 PM      comment []  trackback []

New E-Smith Release e-smith 5.5 is out. The commercial offering has hub-and-spoke VPN configuration (which doesn't allow branches to see other branches networks), secure instant messaging, groupware w/calendaring, and more. The free version I think just has the security patches for apache and ssh. 9:27:37 AM      comment []  trackback []