Perl Hacks

Perl Hacks: Just another Perl hacker’s blog

  • A Subway Metaphor

    Many years ago I read a science fiction story which has always stayed with me – although I’m buggered if I can remember the title or the author. It was set in the not too distant future. Another new line was about to be opened on the New York City Subway [In the comments Rozallin…

  • Perlanet Update

    Maybe it’s just me, but when I know that people are using my code it galvanises me into improving it. Following the discovery that people were actually using Perlanet, I’ve made quite a few releases over the last week or so. I thought people might be interested in what I’ve been doing. Release 0.30 was…

  • This Makes Me Happy

    I like it when my software is used to do interesting and useful stuff. Alex Kapranoff has built PlanetPerl.ru to aggregate blogs about Perl in Russian. He has used a patched version of my module Perlanet. I’ll be taking a close look at Alex’s patches to see what I should bring back into the CPAN…

  • Building Web Sites with Perl

    Over on my other blog last night I wrote a piece about how building simple web sites has never been easier. I talked about how it’s really simple to use something like WordPress or Drupal to build a web site that will suit the needs of many organisations – charities, schools, organisations like that. You’ll…

  • Speaking and Training and Stuff

    I spent some time over the weekend adding events to the london.pm group on Facebook. If you’re on face book, then joining the group is a good way to keep up to date with what london.pm is doing. But for the three of you who aren’t on Facebook, here’s a summary of what I added.…