Yes, strange but true - I'm still alive after yesterday :) Having recovered some of my strength last night, I ventured into town with some of the usual London.pm suspects. Being thursday, the earliest in the month, it was the London.pm social meeting - we were supposed to be going to de Wildeman In but you all know how things are :) So we get down to drinking a few beers in Amsterdam and things turned to discussion of things Perl and as we largely had been to Michael Schwerns Kwalitee talk earlier on - we decided that what the world really needed was the module Test::Approx - you already know what it does, its an extension to Michael's Test::More, that adds some methods like : totally_shagged(); kinda_ok(); maybe_ok(); close_enough_for_jazz(); hey_it_compiled_its_gotta_be_ok(); And so forth. Skud later proposed that we should also make Test::Harness::Approx so that it could assign percentage values of ok to each of the methods and then be able to print out : 29.75 of 30 tests passed again you know the score. I am uncertain as to Michaels views about this. We also get very wet in a massive storm that broke out as we were thinking of getting a cab back to the hotel - we discovered that it was difficult to get a cab from a bar in a foreign country and had to walk to the Centraal station, it rained, we were dressed for the summer and unprepared. Anyway has anyone else mentioned that the wireless lan is k3wl ;-} So now this is friday and the keynote speaker Daniel Karrenberg from RIPE NCC has just finished, I have to say that I was a little disappointed with this as a KEYNOTE speech in that he wound up by saying that they had done their RIPE DB (orpiginally written in Perl ) properly and rewritten it in C++ ... Anyhow, I'm off to sky's talk in a minute and we have all promised to talk behind his back on IRC, but, hey we'll say about that ;-} Well its lunch time now and we are all sitting at the BIG TABLE which London.pm have colonised. Sky's talk on POE was apparently the first one that there has been at a Perl gathering anywhere, which I found hard to believe, maybe sky ought to go on a POE Evangelism world tour. I started to think How I Might Redesign Some Stuff At Work using a single POE server to provide state maintenance.
