Recent content on Dave Rolsky
Copy of an article I wrote for perl.com originally published on 2003-03-13. I’ve saved it here in case the perl.com version disappears at some point.
Some Basic Concepts In order to understand what you might want to do with dates and times, it’s good to have a handle on some basic concepts. Here are some terms that I’ll be using in this article:
datetime is not a word,…
I offer the following classes at conferences, and can be persuaded to come to your company and teach them for sufficiently reasonable sums of money. Contact me to discuss this further.
Introduction to Go Go hits a nice sweet spot between ease of coding, speed of execution, and modern features such as type inferencing, concurrency, and a minimalist but useful OO system.
In this class,…
Slides for my conference presentations are available here.
Most of my newer slide decks have slides with very minimal content on them. The interesting bits are in the presenter notes, which are accessible by pressing “s” while viewing the slides.
The raw slides are available from my presentations repo.
Introduction to Go - See the linked GitHub repo for instructions on…
Support Dave Rolsky’s FOSS Work Hi, you’re here (I assume) because you want to give me some money in support of my FOSS work.
Here’s a handy button for doing that …
Sponsor Me on GitHub I’ve set up my GitHub profile for sponsorship if you’d like to do that.
Invoice Or email me and I will provide you a fancy invoice instead.
I’ve written a bunch of things.
My Blog I’ve been blogging on mostly technical topics since the early 2000’s. All of my work since 2008 is available on my blog, House Absolute(ly Pointless).
Some selected posts:
Working with MusicBrainz Name Data Writing a Postgres SQL Pretty Printer in Rust: Part 1 Comparing Code Quality Meta Tools A Technical Hiring Process…
Contact me at dave@urth.org.
My GitHub profile The houseabsolute organization contains most of my code for easier collaboration. House Absolute(ly Pointless), my (mostly) technical blog. Experience MongoDB Senior Software Engineer, 5/2022 – present
ActiveState Software Inc. Team Lead, Senior Software Engineer, 2/2017 – 10/2021
Led a team providing backend services, including a key REST…