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• About: I blog about Perl.

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• Commented on Introduction to wirting readable and maintainable Perl
  colleague passing by me looking at slide #31 asked me if it's Perl learning curve :)...
• Commented on Why so puzzled?
  Leon, - How are you gonna convince companies developing software for hosters to do it? - How are you gonna convince hosting companies to lift resource usage restrictions? (I'm hosting with one company (not perl stuff) that does use CPannel...
• Posted Why so puzzled? to flamey

  I'm really surprised that many Perl people are still puzzled at why Perl web apps aren't as popular, and there isn't as many of them as PHP's.

  Guys, in order for a Perl app to build up userbase it...

  * Must run on low cost shared hosting

  There are ALOT of non…

Comment Threads

• nxadm.wordpress.com commented on Introduction to wirting readable and maintainable Perl

  I haven't yet published my FOSDEM report and pictures, but here you are:

  http://nxadm.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/dsc_7937.jpg

  :)

• Sawyer X commented on Introduction to wirting readable and maintainable Perl

  Great stuff, man!

  Was good to see it, good to meet you and chat up a bit!

• Matthew Horsfall (alh) commented on Introduction to wirting readable and maintainable Perl

  Nice slideshow.

  However, Slide 21 incorrectly hints that "if (defined $value)" and "if ($value)" are the same...

• Alex Balhatchet commented on Introduction to wirting readable and maintainable Perl

  @pyrimidine - thanks for the typo correction :)

  @nxadm - thanks! would you mind if I used that photo on blog.nestoria.co.uk?

  @SawyerX - good to see you too! Playing with Dancer a bit, will have to get on IRC and pick your brains sometime!

  @Matthew - sorry for the confusion re: defined() vs truthiness, I did say in my talk that they were different but obviously that doesn't come through in the slides. If/when I update it for YAPC I'll see what I can do to make things clearer :) Also note that the "warn()" and "print STDERR" examples do different things too ;)

• nxadm.wordpress.com commented on Introduction to wirting readable and maintainable Perl

  Alex, no problem. Use the picture.