The Perl Foundation Gabor Szabo recently asked on his blog what we want to see out of The Perl Foundation. This was in response to the issues raised in comments on his grant request. I’d made a comment in there that I figured I should pull some of ideas from my comments there out into a blog post in response Gabor’s question. Obviously much of... Read more 27 Jun 2010 - 4 minute read
Vote Transparent 1 Mostly because I don’t think he’ll actually do it. ↩ Read more 20 May 2010 - less than 1 minute read
There has been a strong meme going around that I’ve not been paying attention to until today. I’m not sure my opinion really matters here but I thought I’d add my perspective which doesn’t seem to be represented well in the discussion. I’ve been paid as a Perl developer for a little over a decade now. I’ve been involved in various degrees in th... Read more 20 May 2010 - 4 minute read
With a Little Help From My Friends So I haven’t blogged much in the last month. Now I blog twice in one evening1. I’ve been incredibly busy on something that it turns out is the topic for this post. Today coming across the Iron Man feed was Gábor Szabó’s post about “Cooperation among Perl freelancers”. This hit pretty close to home for me sinc... Read more 12 May 2010 - 3 minute read
Fixing a Hole Recently xenoterracide mentioned an issue he had with Dist::Zilla which he solved in a clever way1. I had been thinking about this problem for a while myself. RJBS generates solid code, and nobody agree’s 100% on everything I respect him enough to give serious thought to his solutions to problems. So it was surprising to me that I... Read more 12 May 2010 - 2 minute read