I found this nice site, that takes you step by step through installing perl modules without root access, using local::lib
http://perl.jonallen.info/writing/articles/install-perl-modules-without-root
Enjoy 
Here is my presentation for YAPC::EU 2010 in Pisa:
http://prezi.com/csbyxwomcsoi/more-wtf-in-perl-yapceu2010-pisa/
Here is article (in Polish language, but you will surely understand the first bar graph) http://interaktywnie.com/biznes/newsy/raporty-i-badania/tak-w-polsce-placi-sie-pracownikom-it-12414 that shows that Perl developers earn the highest salaries in Poland (50% more than PHP coders) 
The numbers on graph means: length of bar – monthly salary in polish złoty (currency) – divde by 4 to get values in Euro, percentage in pink box – percentage of that language users (perl – 5%)
Some news about YAPC EU 2010:
Tickets:
- Regular fee: 100 EUR
- Student fee (for full-time students): 40 EUR
- Corporate fee (invoice available): 250 EUR
All prices include Italian VAT (20%).
For speakers free (lightning-talk speakers not included)
Guests: Wall, Conway, Randall, Rolsky…
There will be courses before and after conference:
- Understanding Regular Expressions, by Damian Conway
- Introducing Modern Perl, by Dave Cross
- Presentation Aikido, by Damian Conway
- Introduction to Moose, by Dave Rolsky
- Catalyst 5.80 Master Class, by Matt S. Trout (Shadowcat Systems Ltd.)
- WxPerl in Details, by Herbert Breunung
- Effective Perl Programming, by brian d foy
Priced 150-220 euro each.
And a trip to Florence is very likely to be arranged on Saturday, August 7th (just after the conference). Yay! Remener Hannibal Lecter drawing Duomo on the wall in his cell?
Every Wednesday I write a post here. But, due to national mourning, nothing about perl today.
As you know, near the airport of Smolensk Tupolev 154-M aircraft with President Lech Kaczynski crashed. President of the Polish National Bank also died, the head of the IPN (National Memory Institute), the Sejms and Senats (both chambers of parliament) vice heads – (Putra, Bochenek, Szmajdzinski), the former president in exile Kaczorowski, presidential ministers, Chief Gen. Gągor, the ombudsman Janusz Kochanowski, wife of the President, members of Parliament (Gosiewski, Wasserman, Jaruga-Nowacka, Szymanek-Deresz and others), bishop Tadeusz Płoski and others. Probably when making the second approach to landing plane collided with trees and crashed.
A few rather obvious parallels arise:
- that in the Katyn Polish intelligentsia perished and now again, many representatives of the Polish intelligentsia died there.
- Second, the General Sikorski and his unexplained aircraft accident
- Third – that 5 years ago, in the day before the Divine Mercy Sunday, 7 days after Eastern died Pope John Paul II. This year, exactly the same vigil before that Sunday, the President and others died.
Read more of you want:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Sikorski#Death
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Mercy_Sunday
There ads on this blog. Really. You probably do not see it, if you use adblock for firefox or similar solution.
Turn AdBlock off and look at right column. First, there are ads about perl – form Gabor – I wrote about it here. Then a few adsense (from Google). They should match the content of this blog. And then is a link to one particular book I like very much.
And guess what? No one clicks the ads from Google. I see that in my stats. Even though those ads are matched to site content – as you can see. I doubt if anyone clicks the ads from Gabor either (by analogy – beside, I guess, most geeks use adblock and similar solutions – so they do not even see it – and those ads are intended for THEM). If you have clicked and ad here – either from Gabors perl ad server, or google – raise your hand (add a comment).
I’m reading now a book by Dan Brown, author of “DaVinci code”, titled “Lost symbol”. It is mostly about masons. And it quite resemble the previous books by this author. Anyway, it is riveting.
This seemingly off-topic introduction leads to the on-topic perl thing: the mason. It is a “High-performance, dynamic web site authoring system” and “solves the common problems of site development: caching, debugging, templating, maintaining development and production sites, and more.” and “you can embed Perl code in your HTML and construct pages from shared, reusable components.”. Well, sound nice. How it looks? Like this:
(there was something wrong here. I removed it )
Sadly, the FAQ on the official page seems to be neglected and is spammed by merchants of medications made to make your weenie harder. On the other hand, newest version is 1.44 form Jan 4, 2010 - so it is still developed.
Assuming that I would like to learn something new, like "something big, modern, to easy make web applications - with templates, cache, scalability, quick development" should I dive into mason, or better look for something else?
So, I have question, asking YOU for an insight about this like:
- mason is cool, and at least better to do the same by your own from scratch
- forget it, it is so 1990's, learn catalyst instead
- forget mason and catalyst, learn PHP symphony (- no problem for me, I know PHP - more or less )
- ruby on rails is the real thing (no, I will not learn ruby - at least now )
- the best is framework .... (something not mentioned above)
Please write your opinion below. Thank you.
Did someone forgot about perl ironman competition and neglects it?
See http://jquelin.blogspot.com/2010/02/ironman-challenge-status.html and http://www.lowlevelmanager.com/2010/01/perl-iron-man-challenge-is-cron-still.html
wtf?
How to easily resize images (jpg) in perl? Use Image::resize
use Image::Resize; use autodie; $src = "bigimage.jpg"; my $old = Image::Resize->new($src); my $new = $old->resize(200, 300); # max dimensions $jpegdata = $new->jpeg(95); # jpeg quality open OUT, ">./smaller/$src"; print OUT $jpegdata; close OUT;
Remember when I wrote about Perl, Python and PHP taking bigger part in corporate world? Here is nice analysis that shows that PHP growth in this one particular job ads service is not linked to the growing search for “multilingual” developers (java or .net or C#, VB, ASP – and PHP) but for PHP-focused developers.
Other interesting thing is that the jaw-dropping chart shown in the “crashing the enterprise party.” article shows growth of given language job ads, not absolute number. See absolute number for opening your eyes
See, that absolute numbers show that Perl is higher than PHP and Python, although PHP and Pyhon are rising, while Perl is on one level.
One more thing – Savio compared PHP and other langs + PHP combbniations (see here). What if we add Perl? See. Wow.
