http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/ $ en-us Copyright 2003-2005, Talk About Network. All Rights Reserved. 2008-05-15T01:05:51+00:00 TAN rss@talkaboutnetwork.com Discussion hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://tan12.talkaboutnetwork.com/images/spacer.gif http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/ http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/673.html Ive collected many of my thoughts on how Perl needs to move forward. http://perlbuzz.com/2008/05/perl-decentralize-diversify-colonize.html xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = andy@petdance.com = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance andy@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Lester) Discussion 2008-05-06T01:05:44+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/646.html From: Andy Lester andy@petdance.com Plurality is the nature of open source, and its an additive process, not a subtractive one. Template Toolkit doesnt take away from Mason. Devel::*Prof dont take away from Devel::DProf. Perlbuzz doesnt tak... jadams01@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Adams)... Discussion 2008-04-28T10:48:29+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/623.html Oh, god, someone did a bad thing and forwarded me an email from this infernal list that I had been blissfully unsubscribed to for...well, a really long time now. In spite of having given birth and spending the past 18 months being a mum I have ... eashton@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Elaine Ashto... Discussion 2008-04-26T20:39:50+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/618.html Hi all! Id like to start the long task of updating=20 http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html which has been stopped at 2002.=20 What Im planning to do is: 1. Make the document validate: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=3Dhttp%3A//history.perl.... shlomif@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shlomi Fish)... Discussion 2008-04-26T18:51:39+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/615.html Hi All, Ive been contributing to both the perl 5 and perl 6 wikis, but find that they are hardly linked to, the urls arent exactly easy to remember, and the inner community (let alone the diaspora) seems to not know they exist. Why cant we have a w... aaron.trevena@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron ... Discussion 2008-04-17T09:29:07+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/614.html Hi All, Just a quickie to say, it doesnt take long to add your project and contributions to perl projects on ohloh. Heck, I just added Autodia to googlecode (free svn ftw), and then to ohloh in 10 minutes. If you have any significant projects - ma... aaron.trevena@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron ... Discussion 2008-04-16T15:41:36+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/610.html I have always been a fan of Quick Reference Guides,=20 (like OReillys Perl Pocket Reference that I lost), cheat sheets, and the like and recently discovered at a Barnes and Nobles, a bunch of SparkCharts by SparkNotes.com, including a few computer sc... Wayne.A.Haufler@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wayn... Discussion 2008-04-07T10:47:53+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/609.html On Apr 7, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Haufler, Wayne A wrote: I think sparknotes may have a competitor, as well. http://www.barcharts.com/default.asp?page=chart_detailsgid=2pid=555-6wsid=FCA5FE59-9768-4460-937D-8B2D27AACB24 That chart is the first writing... andy@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Lester) Discussion 2008-04-07T10:51:12+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/600.html Hi all! If you go to http://www.python.org/ youll see at the top-right corner a picture of an astronaut with the title NASA uses Python.... Now, to the layman or beginner it might sound more impressive, but lets get our facts straight. Yes, NASA... shlomif@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shlomi Fish)... Discussion 2008-04-05T15:52:31+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/596.html On 1 Mar 2008, at 19:38, Eric Wilhelm wrote: correction: Opens March 3rd, deadline March 12th. So, we dont have to *scramble*, but we dont have time to lollygag either :-D Are you on the GSOC mailing list Eric? -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten andy@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Armstrong)... Discussion 2008-03-01T19:44:15+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/581.html FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION. ATTENTION: This is to inform you that it have come to the notice board of the Federal Bureau Investigation(FBI), That the sum of $65.5, Million U.S Dollars is coming to your account here in United State Of Amer... EXECUTIVE DIRECTORFBI@[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Discussion 2008-01-25T13:54:03+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/574.html Anyone doing anything to counter this misconception? http://www.nautis.com/2007/08/17/cms-review-bricolage/ Note that blog comments that say, youre wrong! are more harmful than helpful. I mean is there a report or something with real data to ... david@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Wheel... Discussion 2008-01-24T19:50:40+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/568.html http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3718191 Can the Perl community learn somthing form them? Gabor -- Gabor Szabo http://www.szabgab.com/ szabgab@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gabor Szabo)... Discussion 2007-12-23T11:39:06+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/564.html Why TPF had no representation at Google SoC 2007: http://news.perlfoundation.org/2007/03/tpf_and_soc_2007.html I hope 2008 TPF will be there! Cheers, Renee Am 12.12.2007 um 09:39 Uhr haben Sie geschrieben: I notice that the Perl Foundation doesnt... mailinglisten@[EMAIL PROTECTED] Discussion 2007-12-12T11:56:39+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/563.html I notice that the Perl Foundation doesnt have any representation on the Google organisation page, which I found a tad surprising. Python is there, so languages are ok, Eclipse is there so programs are ok, no Perl... http://code.google.com/openso... Richard.Foley@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richar... Discussion 2007-12-12T09:39:21+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/561.html Hi, I have setup an AdServer to help us promote various Perl events, the Perl Mongers and Perl in general on web sites: http://adserver.szabgab.com/ There are some general ads (you can see all the currently available ads in the yaml file linked from... szabgab@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gabor Szabo)... Discussion 2007-11-13T11:19:21+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/555.html if we are already talking advocacy, Id appreciate your help here. I am trying to put together a one day long training for Java/C*/etc... programmers to learn Perl as a second language. I dont want to convert them to use Perl instead of their primar... szabgab@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gabor Szabo)... Discussion 2007-10-03T16:47:27+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/550.html Hi all! There is an interesting discussion about Perl here: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.546349.20 Quoting it: For some reasons there are lots of buzz about Ruby, Javascript, Python but not too much about Perl. Why is th... shlomif@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shlomi Fish)... Discussion 2007-10-02T22:01:40+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/548.html Hi, In case you werent aware the perl foundation now has a wiki for perl 5, its been growing pretty fast, and is already shaping up nicely. A couple of very quick/easy things you can do for perl advocacy is to a) add more links to useful resources ... aaron.trevena@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron ... Discussion 2007-07-21T10:05:16+00:00 http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/messages/547.html Heres Allen Gilson telling his story of his career with computers and how perl was a breath of fresh air. http://allengil.freeshell.org/perl.html -- Greg Matheson Try it, youll like it. But if you dont do it anyway. ... lang@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Matheson) Discussion 2007-07-05T18:44:48+00:00 Search talkaboutprogramming.com Perl Advocacy q http://talkaboutprogramming.com/group/perl.advocacy/search.html