2011.12.28 in #23Plain Black is Hiring
I am not sure how many of you know Plain Black, that's the company behind WebGUI. JT Smith, the owner is the guy organizing YAPC::NA this year. (Yeah the one recommending us to visit the National Mustard Museum).
2011.12.31 in #23National Mustard Museum
JT Smith continues with his daily post about the upcoming YAPC::NA. He even discovered the YAPC::NA mailing list so to cover everyone with news. He closed the year with a post about National Mustard Museum in Madison.
2012.01. in #24Google+ Page for YAPC::NA
JT Smith announced the Google+ page I created for YAPC::NA. If you are interested in updates about the Perl conferences and Workshops in North America, put this page in your circles. I'll re-post the YAPC::NA blog and I'll also post other, related items and about the Perl Workshops in North America.
2012.01.11 in #25Startup Row
JT Smith writes, that YAPC::NA is planning to allocated free booth space to Perl based Startup companies. If you are working for one of them, let your management know about this opportunity.
2012.09.18 in #61How debugging can lead to a bug - was Deep cloning
What started out as complain about Clone.pm not working properly lead to a discovery that the Data::Printer module which is supposed to be the best data visualization module on CPAN, actually mangles the data in $a and $b. Then the less, that I've been preaching for years: never use $a and $b outside of sort! Not even in simple examples!
2012.11.30 in #72Designing Board Games With Perl
JT Smith, owner of both The Game Crafter and that of The Lacuna Expanse, you know, the open-source game, now explains how to build your own board game using Image::Magick.
2013.06.20 in #100How Do I Keep My New Product Out Of My Employers IP
Are you working on a code-based business idea while still employed? Do you have a contract that say 'everything you make, even what you dream at night belongs to your employer'? JT Smith recommends a way out. Without quitting your job.
2013.06.22 in #100Minimum Viable Product
.. and if you are already building a product, here is another advice from JT Smith which, IMHO goes very well with the Open Source mantra: Release early, release often.
2013.07.09 in #103Perl Startups: Lacuna Expanse
Ovid interviewed JT Smith, creator of the Lacuna Expanse and a few other Perl-based businesses. The written interview covers both the architecture of web-based application, and answers the question 'Why did they use Perl?'
2013.08.07 in #107Column Oriented Databases
I've heard about SQL and NoSQL but I think this is the first time I hear the expression 'Column Oriented Databases'. JT Smith writes that these are good for data warehousing or catalog app.
2013.09.28 in #114Firebase 0.0201
JT Smith announces: a new release of the Perl wrapper for Firebase, the real-time web database, is out.
2013.11.14 in #121Windows Shell to Perl Program
JT Smith writes about the MadMongers meeting where they took a bat file (a Windows shell script) and converted it to a Perl script. It became much longer, so besides having fun, I am not sure what is the advantage here. Unless they plan to wrap some of the functionality in modules so they become reusable and then the actual script becomes short again.
2013.12.15 in #125Build a start up!
Watch the first 2:20 minutes of the lightning talks from YAPC::NA in which JT Smith calls on you to build something. Build if for your own sake and for the sake of Perl.
2014.02.15 in #134Stupid CPAN Tricks
Video of JT Smith's talk. And if those are stupid tricks, I guess we probably could all use a few more concussions in our lives.
2014.02.20 in #135Announcing Chat::iFly
JT Smith implemented the Perl side of the iflychat web chat service so you can integrate it with your website.
2014.03.17 in #1403 Entrepreneurs Turn Hobbies Into Business Success
American Express writing about 3 people including JT Smith, the creator of The Game Crafter, WebGUI, and Lacuna Expanse. (If you are wondering those are 3 hobbies, not hobbits, as I read at first.)
2014.11.13 in #173Tour of Imager
Imager is a library to generate and manipulate 24 bit images. In these slides you'll see some nice images and how they were changed by JT Smith.
2015.07.27 in #210Masking Images with Imager
A nice show'n'tell on how to transform a regular image in a hexagonal game tile using the module 'Imager'.
2015.12.30 in #232Christmas Came, Bah Humbug
I don't like the title, but I the responses from Liz are great and I hope we'll see more and more real-world problems solved with Perl 6 in a better way than in some of the other languages. I am especially looking at you 'threading made easy'. Oh and more comments on Reddit.
2016.01.10 in #233Perl 6's Killer App - Async
A (legitimate) question peeps have about Perl 6 is "what are the differenciators with Perl 5?". Well, asynchronous programming is one. This blog entry argues why this is a big thing.
2016.02.21 in #239Tabletop.Events Built On Perl
Tabletop.Events is a new convention management platform built using Perl and AngularJS. As its name suggest, it's mostly geared toward board game conventions, but its set of features also makes it quite capable of managing other kind of conventions and conferences.
