Gabor Szabo

• Website: szabgab.com
• About: Perl author and trainer. Usually writing on other sites:

  Writing the Perl 5 Maven tutorial

  Perl 6 articles.

  Started a Perl IDE.

  Running the Weekly Perl newsletter.

  My personal blog.

Recent Actions

• Commented on Announcing: UAV::Pilot v0.1
  Awesome!...
• Posted Pinto Tutorial in 8 languages to Gabor Szabo

  A few days ago Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi (aka vti) has published the

• Posted Interview with Michael Schwern to Gabor Szabo

  Especially for the weekend readers, here is my
  interview with Michael Schwern. Enjoy and share!

• Posted Interview with Jeffrey Thalhammer to Gabor Szabo

  I have been trying to conduct interviews for, I think at least a year, but I was never able to figure out the technology. It is still not what I'd like to have, but I think it is reasonably good already to get started.

  So let me show you the first interview with
  ="http://perlm…

• Commented on When Must You Test Your Code?
  A couple of thoughts that might be even relevant here. 0) Although you had comment about developers, I think you have not explicitly mentioned that one should not "harm" the developers and the maintenance programmers either. How does that fit...
• Posted Perl Tutorial in 10 languages to Gabor Szabo

  Just a little more than a month ago I only had the English version of the Perl Tutorial I have been writing for a while. Then Felipe da Veiga Leprevost offered to translate it to Portuguese and now there…

• Commented on New, experimental screencasts
  @Ron Savage, @E. Choroba could you please tell me what kind of OS/browser were you using?...
• Posted New, experimental screencasts to Gabor Szabo

  Just in case you are bored, I've created a new, experimental screencast for Perl.

  The first episode is about OOP with Moo.

• Commented on QA Hackathon Website on GitHub
  One suggestion, if I may. If I understand it correctly the robots.txt of Github https://github.com/robots.txt allows the indexing of all the blobs in the master branch but not in any other branch. So if you have the content of a...
• Commented on How to be agile without testing
  Isn't this the same argument some people use against using safety-belt in cars? "I read about an accident where the person could not escape the car because of the safety belt, so I won't use it."...
• Commented on Play Perl is a Startup
  Go for it!...
• Posted How to involve more Indians in the Perl community? to Gabor Szabo

  A few days ago I published some data on the distributions of visitors of the Perl Maven site and the people clicking on the links in Perl Weekly newsletter.…

• Commented on Code Pornography
  For example Chart::Clicker has some embedded images....
• Commented on Mobrater and White Camel Nominations
  Let me add this link, in case you[1] were wondering what is the White Camel Award and who received it earlier. [1] the reader, not brian...
• Posted Perl Maven in Brazilian Portuguese to Gabor Szabo

  Slowly, but the Perl Maven site is gaining popularity among people looking for information about Perl. I'll write about the stats later.

  Last week Felipe Leprevost asked me if I'd agree for him to translate the …

• Commented on What's wrong with CPAN?
  Neil, I am not sure if these are on par with your points or if these are already reasons that cause the problems. Lack of cooperation. IMHO, besides a few relatively large distributions, most have only one author/maintainer with a...
• Commented on The Main Problem With CPAN Modules On Github
  Joel, I have the META files in .gitignore as the make dist generates them. Seeing their history might be interesting but I think for that I could fetch the releases from CPAN....
• Commented on The Main Problem With CPAN Modules On Github
  It seems I am missing some background here. Could you give a link where cpanfile is described? Where should one put it and what should be its content?...
• Commented on Thames Valley Perl Mongers are Meeting!
  It seems the PM group was removed from the list of active groups. You might want to send an e-mail to the pm support to re-enable the group and the web site....
• Commented on Not using that any more...
  Maybe you'd like to add this script to the MetaCPAN::Clients which is just a bunch of scripts. If yes, please send a pull request....
• Commented on Perl programmer humour
  Try Acme::ReturnValue and check and old set of results. This should be part of Meta::CPAN!...
• Commented on if you <strike>build</strike> write it they will come
  Articles showing how to solve specific problems with Perl+CPAN is excellent, though IMHO, a constant flow of articles throughout the year is more effective than a one-week sprint. Besides that if you'd like to reach out to other people, you...
• Commented on YAPC Presentation Recordings
  There is also yapc.tv....
• Posted I am sad to Gabor Szabo

  I am just sad seeing people paint the Perl 6 developers as the enemy. As the reason for whatever trouble Perl 5 experiences. It looks like a search for a scapegoat. Please, stop this.
  

• Commented on Swiss Perl Workshop has a Logo
  I know it is against the Perl mindset to promote thing, so I think I am breaking the rules by posting this link to the Swiss Perl Workshop 2013....
• Commented on In the name of "Create great things (in Perl)"
  These are nice things and it is very important to make it easier to try Perl and learn Perl and as you might know I spent some energy on that, but if you would like to generate interest create tools...
• Commented on If you talk about it, people want to buy it
  I am not sure who is "common folks" vs "rare folks" (?) Who is supposed to build the "new and shiny"?...
• Posted Perl Reunification Summit 2012 to Gabor Szabo

  Once upon a time, in August 2012, there was a Perl Reunification Summit in the town of Perl, near Schengen.

  Back then a couple of people have wrotten about it and today finally I have also posted about my experience.
  I think it might be a good time to remind everyone about that meeti…

• Commented on Economics 101
  And to compare and contrast, here is an article in Infoworld...
• Commented on Swiss Perl Workshop 2013
  Let's tell Google about the web site of the Swiss Perl Workshop....

Comment Threads

• Ovid commented on How to be agile without testing

  Adrian,

  I like to make a distinction between customer and non-customer code. For non-customer code (such as for an open source project or a back end reporting system), there's a far different strategy which is applied. However, by "customer" code, I mean customer-facing code where the success of the business depends on customers using the code in the manner that the business needs to stay afloat. Did you buy the mug that's being sold? Did you sign up for the newsletter? Do you become a repeat visitor?

  Most companies I've worked for are desperate to have those answers, but do …

• Adrian Howard commented on When Must You Test Your Code?

  A few random musings.

  First, alluding back to my comment-that-never-made-it-through-MT-sucky-sign-in - a large chunk of your approach to when to write tests is based on the assumption that most tests are written to detect error (or harm - in your elegant repositioning of priorities).

  There are other reasons to write tests. To drive the design (you know I'm a huge TDD fan). To mark a goal for completion (a bunch of the BDD / acceptance test driven school). I'm sure they are more.

  Personally I tend to write lots of design-driving tests, and very few harm detection tests…

• Ross Attrill commented on When Must You Test Your Code?

  There are several things that I like about this article. I like that the article acknowledges technical debt is sometimes appropriate and provides some suggestions on managing that.

  Your concluding paragraph says it all.

• Adrian Howard commented on How to be agile without testing

  So I don't dispute what you say about tests, but I will cheerfully dispute whether or not currently recommended best practices in testing are the elusive Holy Grail of performant software.

  Hmmm.. whose best practices are you reading ;-)

  I've been running workshops on the advantages of a more experimental metric-driven approach for a couple of years now. Jez Humble's CD book was published nearly three years ago. The classic "The Deployment Production Line" paper from Agile 2006 is more than six years old now.

  We've got the Lean Startup folk ranting ab…

• perlpilot commented on Announcing: UAV::Pilot v0.1

  Very, very cool!