Year: 2010

  • Modern Perl Web Development

    Modern Web Development with Perl from Dave Cross Last Saturday was the annual London Perl Workshop. I’ll have more to say about the day later[1], but I just wanted to take the time to share the slides for the workshop that I ran in the morning. It was a quick guide to modern Perl web…

  • Evolving Software with Moose

    Evolving Software with Moose from Dave Cross Last night I was speaking at the Milton Keynes Perl Mongers technical meeting. I gave a new talk about how Moose (and, in particular, Moose traits) make Perlanet easier to maintain and enhance. The slides are available on Slideshare.

  • WordPress

    This blog has, until now, run on Movable Type. I initially chose Movable Type when I set up my first self-hosted blog back in 2002. Back then Movable Type was the only real choice in this area and it had the bonus that it was written in Perl so I could hack on it if…

  • Too Easy or Too Hard

    We hear a lot of people complaining that programming in Perl is too difficult, but I think that a lot of these problems stem from people making the opposite assumption – that writing Perl is easier than it actually is. Let me share a couple of examples. I’ve lightly disguised the companies in question –…

  • Marketing Perl

    Sometimes people ask me why Perl marketing is so important. This morning I came across an excellent example of the kind of thing that we’re trying to counter. In the current issue of Linux Format, there’s an article about building a Twitter client in the bash shell. It’s written by Nick Veitch – who seems…