Re: A very odd question
I want to get my HGV licence. Anyone recommend a driving school in saaf Landan? Can't help you directly, but there has been some discussion of HGV training in uk.rec.driving lately, and you're sure to get some good answers if you ask there. Good luck! Cheers, Pete
Re: Virtual machine development
Playing with virtual machines is great fun, though. Everyone should do it once, even if it seems like it is a little low-level. Pah! Everyone should also write their own language, with an interpreter or compiler; they should write their own OS too, and at least one device driver for some other OS. Hehe. You mock, but I'm sad enough to have a little mental lists of 'programming things I want to do before I die'. -) Write a portable full featured e-mail client in Perl/Tk, so I can use it on both my Windows and Linux machines. (Started) -) Write a simple 32 bit multitasking OS, nothing fancy. (Researched most of this, completed a little) -) Port a C compiler to said OS -) Write a compiler of my own -) Develop my own microcontroller using FPGA. And lately, Write a virtual machine has been added to the list. Anyone else got any programming challenges they'd like to try and meet before their time is up? Pete
Virtual machine development
Hi, I've been lurking for a while now.. and I'm real sorry to start my first thread about something so technical! I initially thought I'd post this to perl6-internals, but after 0.005 seconds I realised it was /so/ OT, despite the Parrot influence.. ;-) I've been playing with Parrot for a month or so now, and after some stuff about Java (which, admittedly, I'd never played with before) and virtual machines, I've become quite interested. I was previously interested in compiler and OS development, but VM development seems to encompass the best of both worlds. I decided to dive straight in and create a simple VM in Perl. . . . You can stop laughing now. I got to grips with the basic concepts, and solved the problems I faced, and came out knowing a lot more than I did before.. and I plan to continue with it, and build something in C once I'm totally au fait with the concepts (Perl is great for this sort of 'playing about'). However, I've mostly been working off of my knowledge about Parrot, scraps I've found on Web pages here and there, and my x86 experience. Does anyone here know of any good resources or references I should be looking at to help me learn about virtual machine development? I've found Virtual Machine Design and Implementation in C/C++ by Bill Blunden, and I have it on order.. http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556229038/ .. but I have no idea how good it is. So, anyone got any suggestions, ideas, or links that I could use? If you've been working on your own VMs or VM like system, I'd be interested in knowing about it. I've done the usual Google research, but other than JVM stuff, there's not much about VMs.. and I'm not keen on the JVM stack-based approach. Thanks in advance! Cheers, Pete
Re: [job] same as before
I've spotted the same posted to Jobserve but without the pay or contract length mentioned. I guess they couldn't find anyone at that rate. I'd leap at it if it were outside of town, but who wants to go into stinky dirty London for that money? Not a bad wage if it were out in Hertfordshire, Surrey, Kent, tho! Pete
Re: Perl is Way Sexy
Were O'Reily to start using this in their ad. campaigns, we'd be as big as Java by now. ;) I don't want to be rude to these possible very intelligent and sweet women (/suck up), but it really looks like they don't want to be holding that book, and that they have no clue of what's inside it. Then again, if I were a sexy lady, and had never heard of 'Perl' and I saw a book with a camel on the front, that mostly sells to bearded 40 year old men, I might be wondering too.. ;-) Pete
Re: [jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer - Perl/mod_perl/ Template Toolkit/Linux/XML (onsite), United Kingdom, London]
No. The rate's terrible. And I mean *really* terrible. That's what I was thinking. They're paying bad salary rates but for a contract-length period. Hell yes. £2033 after tax per month for three months. Some people would love to be earning that much lately (i.e. better than £0 per month). Then again, it's in London, so I'd steer well clear myself. Pete
