Grant McLean

Wellington Perl Mongers had their monthly meeting this week and we tried something new that worked reasonably well so I thought I'd share it here. A little bit like lightning talks but with a more specific focus. From the announcement email ...

Script Spotlight

Briefly tell us about a script you've written and use regularly. Things you might talk about:

• What problem it solves - how it makes your life better
• An interesting feature of the code
• Ideas you have for making it better
• What made it super easy (e.g.: a CPAN module, a feature of Perl, etc.)
• Did you write your script in Perl - why/why not?

If you can't immediately think of a candidate script then here are some places to look to jog your memory:

• your $HOME/bin directory
• /usr/local/bin
• your cgi-bin directory
• scripts called from cron jobs
• scripts called from your editor
• scripts attached to a hot key
• Nagios checks

See you there - with your script :-)