2015.08.19 in #213Getting big without getting fat, in perl
How to grow an ad-hoc script turned into enterprise software without creating a monster? Use the 4 elements of the programmers culture: Config, Logging, Testing, Plugins.
2016.03.24 in #244A helper managing your PM social media
A few shared tips and tricks for managing the social media presence of a Perl Monger group (or, indeed, any other meet-up group).
2018.11.12 in #382Promoting Perl
In this blog, Dean, raised very valid and genuine questions how to measure Perl's growth and various ways to promote Perl.
2019.05.02 in #406Monitorix 3.11.0 released
Dean talks about Monitorix, which is FOSS lightweight system monitoring designed to monitor as many services and system resources as possible.
2019.05.12 in #407MTA-STA for Exim, thanks to Perl
MTA-STS (RFC8461) is a new standard that makes it possible to send downgrade-resistant email over SMTP. In that sense, it is like an alternative to DANE. It does this by piggybacking on the browser Certificate Authority model.
2019.06.11 in #412Simple Event Correlator v2.8.2
SEC is a lightweight and platform-independent event correlator which runs as a single process. The user can start it as a daemon, employ it in shell pipelines, execute it interactively in a terminal, run many SEC processes simultaneously for different tasks, and use it in a wide variety of other ways.
2019.06.29 in #414diff-so-fancy v1.2.6
diff-so-fancy strives to make your diffs human readable instead of machine readable. This helps improve code quality and helps you spot defects faster.
2019.07.15 in #417BackupPC 4.3.1 release
BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, WinXX, and MacOS PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.
2019.10.17 in #430Change offers amazing opportunites
The Camelia mascot of the language now known as Raku is a brightly coloured metaphor for the transition from Perl 6 to it's new identity.
2019.11.16 in #434LedgerSMB 1.7.3 released
Dean, introduced the LedgerSMB project which aims to prevent small and mid-size businesses from getting locked-in by their accounting software vendor by providing free and open source accounting software, integrating invoicing, order processing, quotations and more (ERP). It's all Perl!
2020.05.26 in #462Late May Software Releases
Dean shared details of latest releases of LANraragi v.0.7.0, ZEVENET Community Edition v5.11.1, LedgerSMB 1.7.14 and Sympa 6.2.56.
2020.07.18 in #469Perl Mentoring
If you are on Facebook, this is an excellent chance to get a mentor to further improve your knowledge of Perl and to mentor others who are still behind you on the learning curve.
2020.08.24 in #475Marketing and Branding Survey Results
There are some interesting results there, especially in the comment section of the survey, but what might be even more surprising is what David Hodgkinson pointed out, that there were only 220 responses to the survey. Does that mean that so few people are interested in Perl, or in Marketing Perl, or in The Perl Foundation? Or was the survey not marketed/promoted good enough?
2021.02.05 in #498MySQL Tuner
Dean shared the news of a maintenance release of MySQL Tuner v1.7.21.
2021.03.10 in #503A blog post about blog posts
I think I saw some comments from Dean saying that he felt personally offended by the above post by Dave and that it was doing a disservice to the Perl community, but I don't know if this writing is related or not. Interesting.
2022.01.22 in #548Call for Papers, Perl & Raku Conference in Houston 2022
The Perl & Raku Conference is a high-quality, inexpensive, technical Conference that celebrates the family of Perl programming languages. Do submit papers if you are keen to give a talk.
2022.03.25 in #557Please test DBD::Oracle v1.90_1
Dean invites anyone using DBD::Oracle to test development release v1.90_1 which should fix a lot of problems.
2022.06.14 in #569Perl IDE Hackathon 2022
On Tuesday 21st June there will be a Perl IDE Hackathon in the Hackathon room at The Perl and Raku Conference. You can also participate in this event remotely.
