Proposed Perl Changes

PPCs Website

Many thanks to Dave Cross for providing an initial implementation of a PPC index page. – Perl Steering Council meeting #177 Maybe I should explain that in a little more detail. There’s a lot of detail, so it will take a couple of blog posts. About two weeks ago, I got a message on Slack […]

Adding structured data with Perl

JSON-LD for books

If you have a website, then it’s very likely that you would like as many people as possible to see it. One of the best tools for achieving that is to ensure that your site is returned close to the top of as many search results pages as possible. In order to do that, you […]

London Perl Mongers on GitHub Pages

London Perl Mongers Website

The London Perl Mongers have had a website for a very long time. Since some time in 1998, I think. At first, I hosted a static site for us. Later on, we bought our own server and hosted it at a friendly company around Silicon Roundabout. But for most of the lifetime of the organisation, […]

A link site of your very own

Dave's pointless links site

When I first wrote about my pointless personal side projects a few months ago, I used the software I had written to generate my own link site (like a LinkTree clone) as an example. I’m happy to report that I’ve continued to work on this software. Recently, it passed another milestone—I released a version to CPAN. It’s called App::LinkSite[*]. If […]

Advertising Perl

Advertising Perl

Last weekend, we had a very successful (and very enjoyable) London Perl Workshop. After a five-year break, it was great to see so many old faces again. But in addition to people who had been regular attendees at recent workshops, two other groups of people were there in large numbers—people who had moved away from […]