Year: 2009
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The “Without Whom”s
In The “M” Word, I listed many of the things that have happened in the Perl marketing world over the last year. I wanted to end the year by mentioning a few people without whom this project would not have got off the ground at all. Curtis “Ovid” Poe started writing about Perl’s image issues…
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Perlanet Improvements
I can be a bit of a lazy open source author at times. I love it when someone improves my code and then just emails me patches. I love it even more now that I’m using Github so that people can just fork my code and send me pull requests. That happened over the weekend.…
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The “M” Word
Yesterday was the London Perl Workshop. As always it was a fabulous day packed full of great talks about Perl. Thanks to the organisers for all the work they put in. I gave the keynote speech first thing in the morning. The talk was called The “M” Word and it was an overview of how…
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Blogs.perl.org Problems
It’s ten days since we announced blogs.perl.org and it still doesn’t work properly. Our mistake was to launch it on a really underpowered server. It worked fine when there were half a dozen of us testing it out, but when the entire Perl community descended on it to take a look at the site (and…
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My Sekrit Project
It’s quite possible that over the last year or so you’ve heard me muttering about a secret project that I’ve been working on. Well, this morning I can finally reveal what it is. Do you ever wish that the Perl community had a centralised blogging site where anyone could set up a blog for free?…