XML::Feed is the module that does most of the heavy lifting for Perlanet and, as such, it powers some important parts of the Perl community’s infrastructure. Unfortunately, for a while now it’s had a rather long list of outstanding bugs that weren’t getting fixed. Sometime last year, Matt Trout got co-maintainership on the module and shortly afterwards […]
Being Helpful
I like to help people who know less Perl than I do. I like to help them to improve their standard of Perl. I particularly like to help to improve the standard of Perl that is found on random sites on the web. This is because if I find your nasty Perl code on the […]
Yet More Modern Perl in Linux Format
Over the weekend the postman bought me my subscribption copy of Linux Format issue 155. This contains the third (and final) part of my Modern Perl tutorial. In this part we’re adding features to the Dancer web application that we started in issue 153. This series has concentrated on web applications (with Dancer) and database […]
Free Training Competition in Linux Format
I’ve mentioned before that I’m running some public training courses in London next month. But how do you fancy coming along to those courses for free? Those lovely people at O’Reilly have put an advert for the courses in the new issue of Linux Format which hits the shops about now. That’s issue 154 and […]
The Perl Community – A Modest Proposal
Here’s a video of the lightning talk that I gave at the London Perl Workshop in November last year. This video (along with many other videos from the workshop) is also available at Presenting Perl.