Category Archives: Community

Cultured Perl Blog

February 2, 2010 – 9:29 AM
A couple of years ago I thought that one thing the Perl community was missing was a network of blog sites about Perl. I'm not talking about the individual blogs that are being shown off to such good effect by... Read More »
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The "Without Whom"s

December 24, 2009 – 8:32 AM
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... Read More »
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Blogs.perl.org Problems

November 30, 2009 – 8:27 AM
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... Read More »
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My Sekrit Project

November 20, 2009 – 8:30 AM
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... Read More »
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Socialable Mongers

November 12, 2009 – 9:12 AM
One of the nice things about the Perl community is its friendliness. I've met up with Perl Mongers on three continents. It's easy, if you're going past a city you just look for local groups on the pm.org web site... Read More »
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A Teaser

November 6, 2009 – 2:03 PM
It's coming up to ten days since my last post and if I don't post something soon my Iron Man status will drop back to paper. And we don't want that to happen, do we? But I don't have anything... Read More »
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Perl Monks Passwords

July 29, 2009 – 9:09 AM
It seems that the Perl Monks database has been compromised through some kind of security hole on the server that hosts it. That would, of course, be bad enough. But it seems that the user passwords in that database... Read More »
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Marketing Perl

July 27, 2009 – 2:32 PM
People seem to be coming round to the idea that Perl needs better marketing. Both Ovid and Gabor have written some interesting blog posts recently. What Does the Outside of Perl Look Like?Defining the Marketing ProblemSolutions Are Not Problems. Problems... Read More »
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White Camels 2009

July 24, 2009 – 9:08 AM
At OSCON last night the winners of this year's White Camel awards were announced. Unless you were involved in the discussions to choose the winners or were at OSCON, you won't have known that as there has been no announcement... Read More »
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Forthcoming London.pm Meetings

May 20, 2009 – 9:42 AM
Here's some advance notice of a couple of london.pm meetings.The next social meeting will be on Thursday June 4th at the Gunmakers. Social meetings are a chance for people to get together over a drink and talk about whatever takes... Read More »
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