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The last part of Justin Searls’ talk has some great advice for promoting Ruby that applies to Perl too. If you haven’t seen it, I’d encourage you to watch it. Justin points out that some tech projects like Ruby on Rails are essentially, done. They’re feature complete and achieve everything they set out to accomplish. This means that they’re no longer cutting edge tech, and consequently fewer articles are written about them. We see this with Perl too. Modules like Moose and Mojolicious are battle-tested, proven libraries that do a wonderful job. So we don’t see many hype articles about them eit ..read more

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The last part of Justin Searls’ talk has some great advice for promoting Ruby that applies to Perl too. If you haven’t seen it, I’d encourage you to watch it. Justin points out that some tech projects like Ruby on Rails are essentially, done. They’re feature complete and achieve everything they set out to accomplish. This means that they’re no longer cutting edge tech, and consequently fewer articles are written about them. We see this with Perl too. Modules like Moose and Mojolicious are battle-tested, proven libraries that do a wonderful job. So we don’t see many hype articles about them eit ..read more

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Welcome to “What’s new on CPAN”, a curated look at last month’s new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure. Enjoy! APIs & Apps Turn comments above functions to pod with App::CommentToPod Post messages to Discord chat service using WebService::Discord::Webhook IO::IPFinder is the official Perl module for ipfinder.io Get an interface to VMWare vCloud Directory REST API using VMware::vCloudDirector2 Config & Devops Sys::RunAlone::Flexible2 makes sure only one invocation of a script is active at a time File::Collector aims to be a generic file collection and proce ..read more

Send some pull requests and get a free t-shirt! Hacktoberfest is back for a seventh year to encourage cross-project participation. DigitalOcean wants you to register for Hacktoberfest (no purchase required) then open five pull requests to public repositories on GitHub. Get your feet wet with open source and git; once you see how easy it is you’ll probably come back for more. And you’ll get a nice Hacktoberfest t-shirt. Other companies have their own swag to add to your haul when you contribute to their projects. You can even contribute to that list with a pull request to add your swag. Find ..read more