Greg London said:
> After that, I wrote "Impatient Perl" as an attempt to
> create a teach-yourself-perl-in-N-days book.
> It's about 130 pages long. Still an intro to perl,
> but takes the student/reader all teh way to
> object oriented programming and advanced regular
> expressions.
>
> It's lic
Sean Quinlan said:
> OK. Please bear with me as I think while I type (brainstorm). How many
> under-employed Perl Mongers do we have in the Boston area who would be
> willing to semi-volunteer?
> Suggestions? Would anyone be interested in participating in this?
I did three in-house training cou
So the very thought of certification causes many people to break out
their industrial strength flame throwers. I wont pretend to get that,
but it is obviously a fact. Given the wide, and strong, feelings about
certification (and that my suggestion for reading prior art and
discussing this at the ne
John Saylor wrote:
>
> > > ( 05.03.01 14:21 -0500 ) Greg London:
> > >> What if O'Reilley (or someone) set up a website that
> > >> did free (or low cost) online certification?
>
> > John Saylor said:
> > > what if you did that.
>
> ( 05.03.01 15:59 -0500 ) Greg London:
> > brilliant. Rather tha
Not discussing advocacy here. Really! Just some comments on CPAN.
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 15:16 -0500, Duane Bronson wrote:
> My beef with CPAN is the fact that there is some administrative work
> involved with writing a perl program that uses a CPAN module. After I
> write it, I can't email it t
hi
> > ( 05.03.01 14:21 -0500 ) Greg London:
> >> What if O'Reilley (or someone) set up a website that
> >> did free (or low cost) online certification?
> John Saylor said:
> > what if you did that.
( 05.03.01 15:59 -0500 ) Greg London:
> brilliant. Rather than focus on the goal,
> shift focus o
John Saylor said:
> hi
>
> ( 05.03.01 14:21 -0500 ) Greg London:
>> What if O'Reilley (or someone) set up a website that
>> did free (or low cost) online certification?
>
> what if you did that.
brilliant. Rather than focus on the goal,
shift focus on how impossible it appears
to get there. never
hi
( 05.03.01 14:21 -0500 ) Greg London:
> What if O'Reilley (or someone) set up a website that
> did free (or low cost) online certification?
what if you did that.
> What it requires is a community spirit,
> and a little bit of generousity from its
> members to grant it the possibility of being
5. Clean up CPAN. The egalitarian nature of CPAN is commendable.
However, quality and activity vary widely and redundancy is rampant. A
Perhaps we should require people to hold certifications before they
contribute code.
You are right about CPAN. CPAN's hugeness and uneven quality is
intimid
What if O'Reilley (or someone) set up a website that
did free (or low cost) online certification?
Before a single nay-sayer jumps in and kills the idea,
remember the question is not "HOW?" the question is
"WHAT IF?"
If the "what if?" gives a satisfactory result,
the "how?" will simply follow.
"
>
>Can someone remind me why Perl needs to be more popular? What actual
>problem will be solved? Are we running low on module developers? Running
>low on core developers? Is the existing code-base evaporating? Are there
>not enough t-shirt and book sales? How will we know when Perl is popula
> From Bogart Salzberg
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:13 PM
> Subject: [Boston.pm] Bottom Up
>
> The popularity of PHP, for example, was built from scratch on bottom-up
> buzz. It had so little hope of ever being widely used that its creator
> named it "Personal Home Pages". But it caught fi
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:13:06 -0500, Bogart Salzberg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> An (improved) argument for a bottom-up approach to boosting Perl...
[ various stuff I mostly agree with snipped ]
> 3. Make Perl CGI easier to use. The aid of "CGI::Carp
> qw(fatalsToBrowser)" should be built-in and O
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