Because Perl definitely isn't dead.

Testing 1 2 3… is there anybody just like me?

According to the web-o-meter I’ve not posted since March, it now being November that’s really not good enough. Truth be told, I’ve not really been working with Perl much for work and in my spare time I’ve been…. working. As it happens though I did finally make it to a NWE.pm meet this month where [...]

The current state of play YAPC::EU::2010::Pisa is just a week or so away and I thought it would be time to talk about the send-a-newbie initiative once again. (If you are unfamiliar with send-a-newbie visit the website at send-a-newbie.enlightenedperl.org) As I spoke about previously this initiative was organised last year by Edmund von der Burg [...]

IronMan was and continues to be a project to promote the Perl programming language by encouraging a community of bloggers to post on a regular basis and offering a token reward for their efforts (link needed here). Each of these blogs is then agregated to a single point for the community and the world at large to read, and of course for the assorted search engines to index.

Here are my ponderings on how this went.

I read with interest Jochen Hayek’s blog post (http://blog-en.jochen.hayek.name/2010/06/old-python-anti-perl-propaganda.html) on Propaganda Posters used against Perl and then Python. I then followed the links to the original argument (which I recommend you follow) which is on Paul Battley’s Blog (original anti-Perl piece here). The posters in both of these cases were produced some time ago. The [...]

My Ironman Status would appear here if the badge code wasn’t b0rked with the new system If you have had any interaction with the folks at the TPF I think you will already know that they are quite super people. So why am I saying that the TPF are great in this blog. Well…. It [...]

We’ve seen a few reports of posts missing from the aggregator which I’ve finally had chance to look into this evening. They were not as originally assumed, down the back of my sofa, which is a rather happy coincidence I feel

My Ironman Status would appear here if the badge code wasn’t b0rked with the new system So it has been a month since I last posted (I took a long break to rest from blogging, just was feeling a bit blogged out, but now I am back ). You may have already gathered, if you [...]

The number one failing I find in Open Source, Free Software and CPAN modules is that they don’t tell me what they do. Why miss something so simple and fundamental when it alienates your potential users or customers?

In my search for a CRM I’m finding this at best irritating and I’m an OSS veteran of ten years with a degree of patience and technical knowledge. How can we expect the community bubble to expand and burst if we can’t get this right?

IronMan beta now live and complete – please check it out and add your comments!

http://ironboy.enlightenedperl.org/