I've got a brand new talk in the works, which I will be delivering at both the French Perl Workshiop (Lyon, 16th-17th November) and the Israeli Perl Workshiop (Tel Aviv, 31st December). I will be talking on the topic of parallelism - why we need to do it, how (not) to screw it up, what Perl 6 will bring to the table and some of the latest research for future ideas, including lock-free data structures. I hope to announce more European dates for the talk over the coming months, subject to it being accepted at more conferences.

Well, I figured I may as well make the first post in my PH blog vaguely controversial. If the title's not enough for you, then let me go on to suggest that the Bible has some useful advice in it for those of us trying to decode the continual stream of acronyms that the computing industry likes to throw at us.

"What has been will be again,
 what has been done will be done again;
 there is nothing new under the sun."
    -- Ecclesiastes 1:9

One of the things that amuses me most about the computing industry is how we seem to keep getting shiny new names for the same old technologies, perhaps just applied in a different problem domain or using a different language...