Author: Dave Cross

  • 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…

  • Modern Perl at OpenTech

    Modern Perl View more presentations from Dave Cross.   OpenTech is an annual one-day conference in London where geeks get together and share information about cool things they are doing with technology. The emphasis is on projects that improve society in some way so you’ll see a lot of talks about really interesting projects. Usually…

  • Net::Songkick

    Sometimes it’s good to just take a new idea and hack on it for a couple of hours to see what happens. That’s what I’ve done this evening. I’ve been using Songkick for a while. Songkick is a web site that tracks users’ attendance at gigs. I’ve been tracking the gigs I’ve been going to…

  • Learning About Traits

    I’ve been teaching basic Moose in my training courses for several years now. And, as I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been slowly converting some of my CPAN modules to use Moose. But there are still bits of Moose that I haven’t really needed to get to grips with. One such area is Moose’s support for Traits.…

  • Perl Vogue

    I’m at YAPC::EU in Pisa, so I’m too busy having fun to write a long blog post about my new project – Perl Vogue. But I thought you might be interested in the lightning talk that I used to announce it yesterday. Perl Vogue from Dave Cross More detail when I get back from Italy…