About Perl News
Perl related announcements.
We will focus on:
- Large meet up events (conferences and hackathons)
- Major Perl announcements (new versions)
- Major projects and their successes
We prefer to link to the original source of any announcement, instead of hosting the story here.
We are happy for others to syndicate our feed, although a link back would be appreciated.
All posts will be both moderated and edited, please feel free to submit a story.
Great initiative! Hope to contribute soon.
Glad to see this site appear. I see RSS feed buttons for individual posts, but no button for the feed from the entire site – maybe you can add that in the page header somewhere?
Hi Larry,
Yes, that’s something that seems to be missing from the theme that we’re using. I’ll see what I can do about adding it.
I should point out that there’s an RSS feed referenced in the HTML header of the site – so feed readers should be able to autodiscover it.
Thanks for pointing that out! It worked for me…I entered http://perlnews.org/ and it subscribed me to http://perlnews.org/feed/
This is sad. Using PHP for a site like this doesn’t do much to help Perl’s credibility
I built this site. It took a total of about three hours because I used WordPress. The advantages to me were a) WordPress is software that I know and b) WordPress has a huge ecosystem of themes and plugins.
As I see it, I had the following options:
1/ Build the site in WordPress, knowing that it would be easy, that all the features I needed would be available and that the site would look good at the end.
2/ Build the site in one of the Perl blogging engines. This would have meant me learning new software. It would have almost certainly also entailed searching for extra plugins that don’t exist.
3/ Write my own software in Perl. This would probably have taken five or ten times as much effort and it’s unlikely that we would have ended up with such a professional looking site.
Which option would you have chosen? If you’re unhappy with my choice of software, then feel free to set up your own site. We’ll happily link to you when it’s ready.
I’m tired of people telling me that the Perl community should only use software written in Perl. I use the best tools I know for the job in hand.
I agree wholeheartedly with Dave. One uses the best tool for the job at hand, considering factors incuding personal experience and community support.
I’m running my blog with Melody now, but that’s only because I’d used Movable Type for years before that. I recommend WordPress to new bloggers, beacuse its community is so much more vibrant than MT / Melody’s. This is similar to how I continue to use Perl for most of my professional work, because its community, made incarnate in the CPAN, is so excellent.
There’s a fine line between being a language advocate and a language zealot, and it hinges on perspective and flexibility. Which is a rather Perlish way to be, really.