If you were at YAPC::Europe this week you might well have seen Richard Jelinek’s talk about how to increase Perl’s popularity (update: the slides are here). As part of that talk he suggested that the Perl community needed to run more of its infrastructure using Perl and (amongst other examples) he mentioned a discussion he […]
Does Saint Pierre and Miquelon mean anything to you? It’s a small French-owned territory just off the coast of Newfoundland. Why would this be of any interest on a Perl blog? Well, it’s a French territory with it’s own ccTLD. And that ccTLD is .pm. Ever since Perl Mongers started we’ve looked longingly at that […]
Google Reader just showed me Mithaldu’s blog post about the falling level of Google searches for the term “perl tutorial“. The fall is, of course, more than a little worrying and we should do what we can to get more people searching for Perl. But I wondered what results Google is currently returning for this […]
A few weeks ago I talked about a few domains that I was going to let lapse unless anyone wanted to do anything with them. No-one showed any interest so the domains will go away over the next few months. But in order to hang on to the content, I spend a couple of hours […]
Remember use.perl? It’s moth-balled now, but for years it provided two valuable services to the Perl community. Firstly it provided a hosted blog platform which many people used to write about many things – sometimes even Perl. Of course we now have blogs.perl.org which provides a very similar service. And secondly, it provided a place […]
