Gabor Szabo Perl trainer and developer

The social price of redirection

Gabor Szabo — 2013-05-08T13:59:12+00:00

10 days ago I was wondering if I should merge the 3 Perl Maven sites. The recommendation by everyone was to merge the perl5maven.com site into the perlmaven.com site. As I had the same feeling too, I did it on May 1, just 8 days ago. It went quite smooth, but there was a price!

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Comparing Perl, Python, Ruby and PHP

Gabor Szabo — 2013-04-30T23:16:58+00:00

You know I like useless statistics, right? So here are some: Comparing the ranking of Perl, Python, Ruby, and PHP related web sites. Once every few months I check the Alexa ranking of a bunch of sites that interest me on some level. Actually I track more than what you can see here, but this will be interesting to you. I promise.

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To merge or not to merge?

Gabor Szabo — 2013-04-28T18:04:29+00:00

I have a problem: Should I keep the 3 Perl Maven sites ( Perl 5 Maven, Perl 6 Maven, and Perl Maven) separate, or should I merge them together? Or maybe I should merge P5M into PM and leave P6M separate.

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YAPC::NA 2013 training classes

Gabor Szabo — 2013-03-27T22:37:52+00:00

There are going to be 7 training courses around YAPC::NA 2013 in Austin Texas. Two 2-day courses, and a 1-day course before the conference. Three 1-day courses, and a 2-day course after the conference. (The same Git training runs twice. Once before and once after the conference.) I run two of the 2-day courses. You can already register, and ensure your spot in the courses.

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Perl developers and countries

Gabor Szabo — 2013-03-22T15:53:29+00:00

If you ever wondered in which places are Perl developers more active, here is a little piece of the information slice. On the Perl 5 Maven site there were 92.322 visits between 1 January and 20 March 2013. Most people were interested in the Perl Tutorial and the pages linked from it. 38% of the visitors arrived from the USA, 11.7% from India and 5.46% from the UK. On the other hand I am using Bitly to track the clicks on the articles in the Perl Weekly newsletter. They let me see the statistics only for 30 days, but I think this is fairly representative to the previous weeks: There were 10.820 clicks (4 issues of the Perl weekly) 36% in the USA, 7.55% in the UK and ... only 1.60% in India. Let's see the pies:

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Perl Maven book for Beginners published (v1.24)

Gabor Szabo — 2013-03-13T11:04:02+00:00

The new edition of the Beginner Perl Maven e-book has been published. Some people say that the title is unclear, so let me explain. This is for people who would like to become Perl Mavens, but who know little or no Perl at all. Who are beginners on their path to become Perl Mavens.

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Report for February 2013

Gabor Szabo — 2013-03-02T09:15:16+00:00

A couple of days ago I posted my monthly report for January. Part of the reason for posting these is to help me see how much (or how little) work I have managed to do each month. It is not easy to build an on-line business as I can be distracted easily by various fun projects that might be interesting, but that don't move my business forward. (see below) The problem of course, is that without the business making enough money I won't have time to do the fun things... Anyway, the January report was posted quite late, but now I am posting this right after February ended and I plan to stick to this.

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Report for January 2013

Gabor Szabo — 2013-02-22T11:04:21+00:00

Last year, I wrote monthly TODO lists, and reports of my online accomplishments. Well, I wrote them sometime. This year, I have not even written a New Year's Resolution as it was so unclear what was the correlation between my plans for 2012 and my actual results. So let's write just results. (Yes, I know, it is bit late for the January report, but better late than...)

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Israeli Perl Workshop on February 25, 2013

Gabor Szabo — 2013-02-11T14:54:14+00:00

This year we were a bit in stealth mode with the organization of the Israeli Perl Workshop, but it is not late to talk about it a bit. The workshop will take place on February 25, 2013 in the Shenkar College in Ramat Gan. The schedule of the workshop is finally available. 19 talks in two tracks.

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The future of Perl or what happened at the Perl Reunification Summit?

Gabor Szabo — 2013-02-08T13:28:26+00:00

People are concerned. Is there a future for Perl?

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