Tag: perl
-
Moving Stuff Around
A few weeks ago I talked about a few domains that I was going to let lapse unless anyone wanted to do anything with them. No-one showed any interest so the domains will go away over the next few months. But in order to hang on to the content, I spend a couple of hours…
-
Perl Versions
There has been a flurry of Perl 5 releases over the last few days and there’s some evidence that this has confused a few people. So let’s take a closer look at what is available. Perl 5.14.1 This is the most advanced stable version of Perl 5 currently available. It was released on 17th June.…
-
Doomed Domains
Summer is YAPC time. And YAPC means getting inspired on Perl-related projects. And that, obviously, means buying domain names for those projects. And that, inevitably, leads to lots of email from domain registries at about this time of year which roughly translate to “are you ever going to do anything useful with that domain you…
-
Perl Vogue T-Shirts
In Pisa I gave a lightning talk about Perl Vogue. People enjoyed it and for a while I thought that it might actually turn into a project. I won’t though. It would just take far too much effort. And, besides, a couple of people have pointed out to be that the real Vogue are rather…
-
Perl News
Remember use.perl? It’s moth-balled now, but for years it provided two valuable services to the Perl community. Firstly it provided a hosted blog platform which many people used to write about many things – sometimes even Perl. Of course we now have blogs.perl.org which provides a very similar service. And secondly, it provided a place…