Emmanuel Adebayor recently drew a fairly unusual comparison between AC Milan and Beyonce. I don't think his English is great, but I think I get his point.
"I am happy playing for this club and to be honest I am happy AC Milan, one of the legendary clubs in the world, were looking at me," he told ESPN.
"For me that must be something special. It is like a boy being told Beyonce is looking for them." Not exactly a textbook comparison, eh.
Another of his quotes that I remember really well, is the following: "Milan are interested in me, in myself, in Adebayor". I think he likes to emphasize his point.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Perl
I have just been on a two day training course which introduces the basics of Perl. I've heard good things about it before, and I get paid for doing it, so I said why not. Turns out, its actually incredibly useful. They have tried to make it as OS independent as possible (eg: chomp() strips off the appropriate end line characters whether you are on Windows or Linux, etc).
Also, the regular expressions engine make it very nice to parse text. I also discovered a regular expression checker tool, which has a nice GUI that can help you come up with regular expressions by showing what they match. You can provide a regex, and a input string. The variables in the lower pane actually show you what your regex matches. Very handy, and very useful.
I was surprised how quickly I could do some useful things, and in only two or three lines. I'm not the best programmer in the world, and it takes a notoriously long time for me to pick up on certain constructs, but I found the basics were very easy to pick up. Perl likes to pack a lot of functionality into a couple of short lines of code. It can look cryptic, but once you understand it, it's not so bad.
Having said that, it seems like if you don't use it regularly, you'll quickly forget certain elements. Some of the ideas/syntax for such things as hash tables, sort functions, $_, file I/O, can easily be forgotten if you don't use them regularly I'd say.
Also, the regular expressions engine make it very nice to parse text. I also discovered a regular expression checker tool, which has a nice GUI that can help you come up with regular expressions by showing what they match. You can provide a regex, and a input string. The variables in the lower pane actually show you what your regex matches. Very handy, and very useful.
I was surprised how quickly I could do some useful things, and in only two or three lines. I'm not the best programmer in the world, and it takes a notoriously long time for me to pick up on certain constructs, but I found the basics were very easy to pick up. Perl likes to pack a lot of functionality into a couple of short lines of code. It can look cryptic, but once you understand it, it's not so bad.
Having said that, it seems like if you don't use it regularly, you'll quickly forget certain elements. Some of the ideas/syntax for such things as hash tables, sort functions, $_, file I/O, can easily be forgotten if you don't use them regularly I'd say.
Dublin Bus - Can they go one week without a strike?
Dublin Bus drivers are planning another strike tomorrow. It seems like every time I watch the news in the past 2-3 months, either the taxi drivers are on whining, complaining, protesting or striking, or the Dublin bus drivers are doing the same.
Whoever refuses to work tomorrow and go on strike, simple, sack them. There are hundreds, if not thousands of people looking for a job at the moment, people who are struggling to get by, pay the mortgage, pay the bills (etc), and here are these idiots refusing to do the job they are paid for.
Whoever refuses to work tomorrow and go on strike, simple, sack them. There are hundreds, if not thousands of people looking for a job at the moment, people who are struggling to get by, pay the mortgage, pay the bills (etc), and here are these idiots refusing to do the job they are paid for.
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