More cat pictures for you. Isn't that what blogging is all about ?

I attended Shibuya.pm's Tech Talk #6 yesterday. As far as I can tell the audience was made up by the same crowd that went to Blog Hackers Conference earlier this year, and the Takahashi method remains popular. It was also a good chance to meet up with former co-workers from both Gaiax and Dreamarts.

The six talks were about life at Six Apart (company culture, development process, the software that they make and the software that they use), Catalyst (a Perl web framework that looks like a cross of Struts and Rails and was the topic of two talks), prototype.js (my favourite function therein received mention), Perl at the ICFP programming contest, and an introduction to Perl6/Parrot/Ponie/Pugs.

Oracle Database 10g Express Edition. Free to develop, deploy, and distribute. Now in Beta for Linux and Windows. Limited to 4GB of user data, 1 CPU and 1 GB of memory. Includes HTML DB and Oracle Text. Uses native installers instead of Oracle Universal Installer. Self-managed. Ready to run within two minutes after download. Did I mention free (as in beer, of course)?