February 2014 Archives

Announcing Chat::iFly

In my on going effort to provide Perl interfaces to lots of web services, I’m pleased to announce Chat::iFly. Using this module you can integrate iflychat.com (a web chat service) into your web site with relative ease. 

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Never Be Afraid To Change Your Design

A few years ago I wrote a little video game in Perl called Lacuna Expanse. Tens of thousands of people have played it, and while I wouldn’t call it a raging success, it has paid for itself and continues to make a modest profit. That said, it wouldn’t have if I hadn’t been willing to make drastic changes to the design of it way late in its development. 

Timm Murray made this recording of my Stupid CPAN Tricks talk at...



Timm Murray made this recording of my Stupid CPAN Tricks talk at MadMongers. He thinks he may record all MadMongers talks going forward.

[From my blog.]

Stupid CPAN Tricks

Stupid CPAN Tricks:

I’ve uploaded my slides for 9 Perl modules you should have in your tool belt to the MadMongers file archive.

[From my blog.]

Joose - advanced meta-class system for JavaScript

Joose - advanced meta-class system for JavaScript:

Joose is Moose in Javascript.

[From my blog.]

Stupid CPAN Tricks

At MadMongers’s tomorrow night we’ll be covering a bunch of CPAN modules that people probably don’t know about, but that are super useful.

[From my blog.]

There Are Half A Million Perl Programmers In The World

Apparently there are half a million Perl programmers in the world.

[From my blog.]

About JT Smith

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