New Toy

I picked up a shiny new Macbook Pro last night. Very nice machine, now I just need to get used to the different key bindings!

Advent ahoy

It appears the Catalyst advent calendar got this inspiration from the Perl Advent Calendar. They are reviewing 1 Perl module per day leading up to Christmas. PerlCast has a new podcast up with Jerrad Pierce discussing the Calendar.

Catalyst Advent calander

This is a pretty neat idea, the guys of Catalyst are releasing a Advent calender to lead up to xmas, each day they will be releasing a new Catalyst tip, very interesting way to to promote your the framework. Check it out at http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/ Unfortuntely I doubt I'll have the time to follow all the tips as they are released.

Introduction

I thought I might try this fancy new blogging thing all the kids are talking about, so for a first post I'll do something highly original and introduce myself.

I currently work for an ISP maintaining a legacy Perl billing system and Oracle database. The company is moving to Java for the billing system, which doesn't interest me in the slightest, so my efforts are going into repositioning myself as a DBA. I hope to be able to bring some interesting stories as I learn more about Oracle and database administration in general. Hopefully I will be able to bring some Perl and systems insights as well.