Things in Perl I'm thankful for,<br><br>Moose: finally an Object Oriented framework I don't mind using.<br><br>Catalyst: An web development framework that doesn't annoy me.<br><br><a href="http://Chicago.pm">Chicago.pm
</a>: Finally get to meet some other perl folks I'm no longer an island :-)<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andy Lester</b> <<a href="mailto:andy@petdance.com">andy@petdance.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> From <a href="http://perlbuzz.com/2007/11/perl-gratitude-2007.html">http://perlbuzz.com/2007/11/perl-gratitude-2007.html
</a><br><br> Here in the US, it's Thanksgiving, a day of eating lots of food,<br> watching football, and sometimes, just sometimes, expressing<br>gratitude<br> and giving thanks for those things that make life wonderful.
<br><br> Here are the things I'm grateful for in late 2007, in no particular<br> order after the first.<br><br>Google Code<br><br> [5]Google's project hosting service has been a godsend. It's changed<br>
the way I do open source projects. It has leapfrogged SourceForge<br>for<br> ease of maintenance, and the bug tracker trumps [6]RT for CPAN that<br> we've been using for so long. Add that to the integration with
<br>Google<br> Groups which makes it trivial to create mailing lists, and it's at<br>the<br> tops of my list for 2007. I can't say enough good about it.<br><br>The readers of Perlbuzz<br><br> Eleven weeks ago, Skud and I started this little website called
<br> [7]Perlbuzz as an alternative to the "more traditional outlets" for<br> news in the Perl world. The response has been tremendous. We get 600<br> RSS readers every day, and have had over 10,000 unique visitors in
<br>that<br> time. It makes me happy that our little venture is used and<br>appreciated<br> by the community.<br><br>Test::Harness 3.0<br><br> It's been over a year in the making, but the new version of [8]the
<br> crucial Test::Harness 3.0 means more flexibility for module authors,<br> and lots of UI improvements for people who just want to run prove<br>and<br> make test.<br><br>Mark Dominus<br><br> MJD is so much a fixture in Perl it's easy to forget that he's
<br>there.<br> For 2007, though, never mind all the things he's done for Perl in<br>the<br> past, or the hours I've spent being enthralled in talks of his. His<br> [9]Universe Of Discourse blog is the single most intelligent blog
<br>out<br> there, and sometimes it just happens to be about Perl.<br><br>Andy Armstrong<br><br> Was Andy Armstrong always around, or did I just not notice? His time<br> and dedication spent on climbing on board with Ovid and Schwern
<br>and the<br> rest of the Test::Harness 3.0 crew has been invaluable in getting it<br> out. Plus, he's a really swell guy anyway.<br><br>Dave Hoover<br><br> When I finally despaired of the amount of time and frustration it
<br>took<br> to organize content for [10]Chicago.pm's Wheaton meetings, Dave<br>Hoover<br> stepped up and volunteered to take it over. I'm thankful, but not as<br> much as I hope the other <a href="http://Chicago.pm">
Chicago.pm</a> folks are.<br><br>Perl::Critic<br><br> I'm all about having the machine keep an eye out for the stupid<br>things<br> we do, and the goodness of [11]Perl::Critic is always impressive.<br>You<br> won't like everything Perl::Critic says about your code, but
<br>that's OK.<br> It's an entire framework for enforcing good Perl coding practices.<br><br>The Perl Community in general<br><br> The Perl community is populated by some tremendous folks. Some names<br> are more known than others, but these people help make daily Perl
<br>life<br> better for me. In no particular order, I want to single out Pete<br> Krawczyk, Kent Cowgill, Elliot Shank, Liz Cortell, Jason Crome,<br>Yaakov<br> Sloman, Michael Schwern, Andy Armstrong, Ricardo Signes, Julian
<br>Cash,<br> Jim Thomason, chromatic, Chris Dolan, Adam Kennedy, Josh McAdams<br>and of<br> course Kirrily Robert. If you think you should be on this list,<br>you're<br> probably right, and I just forgot.<br>
<br>My wife, Amy Lester<br><br> Because even if she doesn't understand this part of my life, she at<br> least understands its importance to me.<br> __________________________________________________________________
<br><br> I'd love to hear back from any readers about what they're thankful<br>for.<br> I'm thinking about having a regular Perlbuzz "Love Letters to Perl"<br> column where people write about what they love in Perl.
<br><br> 5. <a href="http://code.google.com/hosting/">http://code.google.com/hosting/</a><br> 6. <a href="http://rt.cpan.org/">http://rt.cpan.org/</a><br> 7. <a href="http://perlbuzz.com/">http://perlbuzz.com/</a>
<br> 8. <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Harness/">http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Harness/</a><br> 9. <a href="http://blog.plover.com/">http://blog.plover.com/</a><br> 10. <a href="http://chicago.pm.org/">
http://chicago.pm.org/</a><br> 11. <a href="http://perlcritic.tigris.org/">http://perlcritic.tigris.org/</a><br><br>xoxo,<br>Andy<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Chicago-talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Chicago-talk@pm.org">
Chicago-talk@pm.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk">http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jeremy Wall<br><a href="http://jeremy.marzhillstudios.com">
http://jeremy.marzhillstudios.com</a><br><a href="mailto:Jeremy@marzhillstudios.com">Jeremy@marzhillstudios.com</a>