Down the rabbit hole

Blog posts are like busses. You wait months for one and then two come along on consecutive days! Yesterday I wrote about how we didn’t need a blogging platform for the Perl community – all we really needed was a good-looking feed aggregator. I mentioned Perlsphere as one such aggregator. Then Matthew commented, saying that […]

Blogging for Perl

blogs.perl.org

I think it was at YAPC Copenhagen in 2008 that a small group of us first discussed the idea of building a shared blogging platform for the Perl community. It was over a year later that we launched blogs.perl.org. I remember a lot of discussions over that time where we tried to thrash out exactly […]

The Best of Perl Hacks

The Best of Perl Hacks

What do you do when you’re stuck inside because Coronavirus means that your country is in lockdown? Well, you write a book, of course. Or, to be more accurate, you cobble together fifty or so old blog posts into a book. So that’s what I’ve done. Now you can read some of your favourite Perl […]

Several Small Bits of News

A few little bits and pieces, none of which justify a blog post to themselves. blogs.perl.org Some of you will have seen that Evozon’s grant to replace blogs.perl.org was cancelled a couple of months ago. This made me sad as I (along with the rest of the blogs.perl.org team) really want to see the current, […]

Dancing in Cluj-Napoca

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been running a poll to decide which training course to run at YAPC Europe in August. Thank you you the people who voted in the poll. I’ve just closed the poll and the results are pretty clear. In Cluj-Napoca I’ll be running a course on Modern Web Development […]