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. […]
The Definitive Guide to Catalyst
I’ve just published my review of “The Definitive Guide to Catalyst“. I thought it was worth quoting the final paragraph here: The application development methods discussed by the authors of this book are the ones which will define good Perl development practice in the coming years. If you have any interest in how you should […]