Re: New perl features?
Dave == Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk writes: Dave Does anyone pay for Perl articles these days? :-) I got paid for one a few years back. Nothing like the heyday of the 255 paid articles I wrote during the dotcom boom. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion
Re: New perl features?
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 07:00:32AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Dave == Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk writes: Dave Does anyone pay for Perl articles these days? :-) I got paid for one a few years back. Nothing like the heyday of the 255 paid articles I wrote during the dotcom boom. The French GNU/Linux Magazine (http://www.ed-diamond.com/index.php#homelm) would still pay us, if we managed to write articles for them. :-) And as bonus (because we accept to get paid a little less), the articles are put under a CC-ND-NC license after a few months, and end up here: http://articles.mongueurs.net/ You'll need to write in French, though. And get paid in Euro. -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) Be careful when you take one side or the other. You could wind up in the middle.(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #33 (Epic))
Re: New perl features?
On 18 Mar 2013, at 16:00, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: You'll need to write in French, though. And get paid in Euro. Couldn't we just write loudly in CAPS? G.
Re: New perl features?
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 05:00:55PM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 07:00:32AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Dave == Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk writes: Dave Does anyone pay for Perl articles these days? :-) I got paid for one a few years back. Nothing like the heyday of the 255 paid articles I wrote during the dotcom boom. The French GNU/Linux Magazine (http://www.ed-diamond.com/index.php#homelm) would still pay us, if we managed to write articles for them. :-) That sounds like people don't have the time sufficient to write articles. Are there people for whom translating articles to French is easier? And as bonus (because we accept to get paid a little less), the articles are put under a CC-ND-NC license after a few months, and end up here: http://articles.mongueurs.net/ You'll need to write in French, though. And get paid in Euro. ie, is there a viable split of the payment such that it's enough to motivate a team of two, where one writes in English and the other translates? (and I don't know if any of the German language publications will pay, in which case, translating to both for near-enough simultaneous publication might pay three people better than one publication pays two) Please note, I'm not looking to write articles (paid or not). But I can see that having more articles about the Perl programming language* would be a good thing, and I'm not sure if anyone has suggested this approach before. Nicholas Clark * Maybe the highly rigorous method behind Tiobe's index is simply to search the various London user groups' list archives for traffic. If so, that would explain a lot. Perhaps someone should name a programming language Beer. To see how fast its ranking rises. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpagev=PAHBZImmXsI#t=1153s So it turns out there's a big overlap between people who like computer programming and people who like beer (I found all 35 minutes of that keynote is worth watching.)
Re: New perl features?
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 04:20:48PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: On 18 Mar 2013, at 16:00, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: You'll need to write in French, though. And get paid in Euro. Couldn't we just write loudly in CAPS? Yes, however with that 20th century stereotype of British tourists, expect to be paid in garlic, stripy jumpers, Gitanes and Gallic shrugs.
Pumpkin and Siesta
While viewing the london.pm websight I saw mail list manager is written in pirate language python which is the rightful intellectual property of the python.co.uk hosting company. For the marketing of community and raising of the profile of Newerish Perl in the community if we should port it to a more modern version of it and one which respects software patents? I don't mean python 3 LOL! Or the outdated Pumpkin 5 but Rakudo 6 to port to Siesta (a feature complete, widely used and stable mailing list system)! http://www.perl.com/pub/2004/02/05/siesta.html We need discussions about which version control system to use for it (RCS over NFS?) and quoting style for the mailing list itself (top posting, supercite quoting and HTML only). I done a new logo in Xpaint already. We should host on Oracle Unbreakable Linux. This Oracle/Siesta/Rakudo software stack should prove fast and reliable enough for our mailing list requirements. I also propose renaming pumpkin to I can't believe it's not Perl! Free NLP and kick boxing training for all comitters! -- Luzer Cop
[ANNOUNCE] Perl Memories
Further to my call for history about the last 25 years of Perl (if you missed the brief is: it I am seeking stories from the last 25 years of Perl - get them to me now people), and I want your personal stories here people I would also like any photos, including weird, the wonderful and the mundane. I desperately need you all to help, if your story is I have only done this for 6 weeks and been to one PM meeting with a terrible phone-camera image, want it and I want how you are to be credited. I will pay with a lot of karma and thanks, I am also open to bribes. You may include blackmail images :) Thanks in Advance -mdk -- Mark Keating BA (Hons), Writer, Photographer, Cat-Herder. Managing Director: http://www.shadow.cat For more that I do visit: http://www.mdk.me
