a casual coder

Over the past year I had posted queries to our local perlmongers group za-pm and received substantial help from the inmates.

Looking at things Perl I noted that on the perl.org site that we did not have a flag planted on the map. Querying this I found that the group leader (I never knew there was such a thing) had gone awol and that his emails were bouncing.

Reporting this with glee to the list & asking the leader to please stand up and be identified got me voted into the hot seat before you could write a perl one-liner.

Having disposed of other encumbrous duties I recently got access to the web site and added a small note, the first in seven years! Happy that I had fulfilled my promise to reactivate the site to pm_group I sent a small 'done it' note expecting a pat on the back.

Now my contact there has suggested I blog about it here rather than brag about it to him, which is just as well since I was about to ask his advice on how to advance za-pm advocacy, and methinks I can slip something in here.

So here it is as I see it. We have a small group. But South Africans now have their own diaspora world wide. We are in the Americas, Europe, down under; you name it and there are expatriates working there. So this is by way of an invite for those of you in the za-diaspora to join us on za-pm. We'd like to liven it up a little, and if there are few of us still left at home then we hope that those of you stranded overseas can come and tell us how it is in the real world outside.

That's it, except to say that I am not a perl professional but my dearest wish is six months on a desert isle (like the little one in cartoons with a palm tree in the middle, the circling shark, and the liner going past) with an inexhaustable supply of needles, sorry, batteries, and of course my perl and catalyst books.

We'll blog again, just now!