Highlight of lightening talks
David Jones just edited the source to the unix command yes on the fly and recompiled it to run arbitrary Lua code. In a 5 minute talk.
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Operating systemsAll operating systems tend to Unix, except Red Hat which tends towards Windows 98. Not second edition. Matt Trout |
Second BBC gemThe system that the BBC uses is to not just straight optimise the code, instead they develop a stats system and use that to establish a target, then optimise. Which makes a lot of sense even if the stats take more CPU time. |
At a BBC mobile talkThere is a comment in the BBC mobile webpage XSLT that says:
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Only at a Python talk“Where would we get that, the cheese shop?” |
Next set of talks
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I’m feeling luckyJust won a Google t-shirt :) |
OptimisationBrian McCaulay when asked if a regex is the best way to solve the classic balanced brackets problem: “Well the most efficient way to do anything is to write the XS code for it.” |
UKUUG Spring ConferenceJust blogging a bit from the UKUUGSpring conference… |
A test from N770Does this work? |
