modern perl

Relaxed Perl Myths in Ann Arbor

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Speaking of belated screencasts, I also haven’t blogged about my visit to the Ann Arbor Perl Mongers in Michigan.

The Ann Arbor Perl Mongers group was being restarted (after a 10 year gap) by the TigerLead tech team. I’m working for TigerLead and was going to be in Ann Arbor for a meeting so they asked me to give a couple of talks: Devel::NYTProf and Perl Myths.

I like giving talks at events like these because there’s no set time limit and the audience is more relaxed (the free pizza probably helped).

I’ve uploaded a screencast of the Perl Myths talk. As usual it covers the Perl jobs market, CPAN, best practices, power tools, community and perl6. At almost 1 hour 20 minutes it’s significantly longer than my usual, more rushed, 40 minute version given at conferences and includes 15 minutes of Q & A at the end.

Examples of Modern Perl

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In the spirit of re-tweeting, this is a short post to highlight some great examples of “modern perl”. (I’m using the term modern perl very loosely, not referring specifically to any one book, website, or module or organization.)

Firstly I’d like to highlight a couple of recent posts by Jonathan Rockway:

* Unshortening URLs with Modern Perl (also available here). An interesting example application built with modern perl modules like MooseX::Declare, MooseX::Getopt, HTTP::Engine, AnyEvent::HTTP, TryCatch, and KiokuDB.

* Multimethods. Another great example from Jonathan highlighting the combined power of MooseX::Types, MooseX::Declare, and MooseX:: MultiMethods.

Then, from his work at the BBC, Curtis “Ovid” Poe has given us a great series of thoughtful posts on the benefits of replacing multiple inheritance with roles in a complex production code-base. The slides of his Inheritance vs Roles talk is a good place to start. Then dive in to the blog posts back here and work your way forward.

I ♥ modern perl!