This blog has, until now, run on Movable Type. I initially chose Movable Type when I set up my first self-hosted blog back in 2002. Back then Movable Type was the only real choice in this area and it had the bonus that it was written in Perl so I could hack on it if […]
Too Easy or Too Hard
We hear a lot of people complaining that programming in Perl is too difficult, but I think that a lot of these problems stem from people making the opposite assumption – that writing Perl is easier than it actually is. Let me share a couple of examples. I’ve lightly disguised the companies in question – […]
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Marketing Perl
Sometimes people ask me why Perl marketing is so important. This morning I came across an excellent example of the kind of thing that we’re trying to counter. In the current issue of Linux Format, there’s an article about building a Twitter client in the bash shell. It’s written by Nick Veitch – who seems […]
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Modern Perl at OpenTech
Modern Perl View more presentations from Dave Cross. OpenTech is an annual one-day conference in London where geeks get together and share information about cool things they are doing with technology. The emphasis is on projects that improve society in some way so you’ll see a lot of talks about really interesting projects. Usually […]
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Net::Songkick
Sometimes it’s good to just take a new idea and hack on it for a couple of hours to see what happens. That’s what I’ve done this evening. I’ve been using Songkick for a while. Songkick is a web site that tracks users’ attendance at gigs. I’ve been tracking the gigs I’ve been going to […]