http://prezi.com/csbyxwomcsoi/more-wtf-in-perl-yapceu2010-pisa/

See also:

1. YAPC EU 2010 is coming
2. My presentation at YAPC::EU::2009 was graded
3. WTFish side of using Perl talk at YAPC::EU 2009 – slides

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%)

See also:

1. Perl as good as java, python and PHP way above
2. Perl, PHP, corporate – continued.
3. Perl 5.10.1

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.

(more about courses)

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?

See also:

1. Nice people I met at YAPC::EU
2. YAPC::EU 2010 Pisa – my presentation
3. Frozen Perl soon

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

See also:

1. Nice people I met at YAPC::EU – continued
2. Frozen Perl soon
3. Utf8 in web perl application (LAMP)

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).

See also:

1. Advertise Perl with Gabor
2. Microsoft bots made DDoS on CPAN
3. Utf8 in web perl application (LAMP) – binmode, charset

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.

See also:

1. Website login with Perl
2. Utf8 in web perl application (LAMP)
3. Utf8 in web perl application (LAMP) – dbi, mysql

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?

See also:

1. WTFish side of using Perl talk at YAPC::EU 2009 – slides
2. YAPC::EU 2010 Pisa – my presentation
3. More on foreach localisation

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;

See also:

1. installing from CPAN without root
2. Utf8 in web perl application (LAMP) – dbi, mysql
3. Utf8 in web perl application (LAMP) – binmode, charset

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.

See also:

1. Perl as good as java, python and PHP way above
2. Perl job = high salary
3. Nice people I met at YAPC::EU – continued

Perl as good as java, python and PHP are way above

There are a few articles about growing popularity of open source and languages like PHP and Python in corporate world. See cnet, o’rly and gazeta (in Polish).

Until now, java and .NET seemed to be the most popular in corporate world. Now is time for Python, PHP, Perl, and open source solutions. For example Farmville, very popular online game, with million of users, is said to run on LAMP stack.

There is also opinion that companies like Zend or ActiveState give “corporate face” to open source. And yes, open source is not free (as free beer) – you often have to (or are willing to) pay for support, knowledge, contractors etc. (vide MySQL Enterprise).

But, returning to the title of this post – on the graph in cnet article- you can see that there is the same amout of job offers for java and perl developers, some more for .NET, much much more and rising for PHP and even more (and rising more) for python.

See also:

1. Perl, PHP, corporate – continued.
2. Perl – why not popular
3. Perl is dead – or is it not?