Alberto Simões

As some of you probably noticed, from my post in TPF blog, there were no grant proposals in the last six months. I am not sure how to interpret this lack of interest in grants. But there are some ideas that come to my head:

People do not need money :-)

People prefer to do things by themselves, without any schedule or pressure;

Nobody uses Perl anymore

Everything Perl needs is already on CPAN

The maximum amount of a grant ($3000…

As usual TPF just published another call for grant proposals, ranging from $500 to $2000. The official call for proposals is available here: http://news.perlfoundation.org/2013/01/2013q1-call-for-grant-proposal.html

I just found something interesting.. well, at least, fun:

Package namespace installed latest in CPAN file Perl::MinimumVersion 1.29 1.30 CHORNY/Perl-MinimumVersion-1.30.tar.gz

After installing Perl::MinimumVersion, I get:

Package namespace         installed    latest  in CPAN file
Perl::MinimumVersion::Reason      1.20      1.29  CHORNY/Perl-MinimumVersion-1.29.tar.gz

And if I ask to install Perl::MinimumVersion::Reason, yeah, of course, I get:

Package namespace         installed    latest  in CPAN…

In the last days I've been preparing a web site where I want to show values in four different currencies, accordingly with the user choice, and keeping up with the current exchange quote. I do not want to talk about how to get those values, or what values or website I am building, but just share an experience I've got with Template Toolkit that made it easy to separate the values conversion from the core code.

This is not that interesting for most people that can not understand Portuguese. Nevertheless, the Portuguese Perl Workshop was recorded in Video, and we managed to upload the talks and a Moose tutorial to youtube. Check the talk list and links to the videos in out perl.pt blog.