I was honoured to be asked by the folks at Port Street Beer House to review one of their cask beers, Saison, from the West Sussex brewery Dark Star. I went down last Saturday, received a pint, sat down, and wrote this: http://portstreetbeerhouse.co.uk/blog/2011/05/31/review-dark-star-saison-by-dj-adams A thoroughly enjoyable time! And of course, I checked it in; fitting, as [...]
Is tarpipe.com an early example of a “Programming 2.0″ concept? I first read about Tarpipe from Curt Cagle’s “Analysis 2009″. In turn, Curt points to Jeff Barr’s post which describes the concept and the implementation very well. It’s a fascinating concoction of Web 2.0 services and visual programming (in the style of Yahoo! Pipes), and [...]
I’m sitting here in a wonderful arcade of 80s arcade games, listening to Rush, arguably the best rock band ever, drinking beer, and enjoying WiFi, all courtesy of Stonehenge, and in particular Randal Schwartz, the maverick entrepreneur who happens to be a great teacher of Perl. Stonehenge is hosting a post-OSCON free beer and games [...]