The terrible things (2): More daisies for the chain

This is the second article based upon my Keynote that I presented this year and is part of a series of articles on the Terrible Things We All Must Do.

Lead by example…

One of the points I made in my Daisy Chain article last week was the need to link to each other in our blogs and social media locales. So I have resolved myself to lead by example and to try and do that as much as I can. To this end I will be attempting to blog to Ironman twice a week from now on (when necessary) so that I can link to and discuss other peoples blogs and the groovy things I read on them.

Basically I am gossiping.

Wrap it up and Design

There was a great post by XSawyerX (http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x) which pointed out the need for all Perl modules/libraries/projects to have a good looking website. This went from a series of discussions he had concerning popularity of projects being connected to how they present themselves.

My feeling is that this is part of the problem, not the whole of the issue (not that he implies that, I am just talking out my thoughts) and that there are some other things for us to consider in the marketing and understanding of the marketplace, some of which I am going to try and cover in this series of posts.

But his idea to have a website for every project, that looks good and promotes the item is a solid one and I join Leo Lapworth (http://blogs.perl.org/users/leo_lapworth) in supporting him, check out his post on More Design Love.

Outside the Bubble

FOSDEM happens this week and the energetic Mister Szabo will be manning the stand and presenting papers on Perl to a wider audience, so if anyone can get there then please seek him and the other volunteers, including the indomitable Master Dave Cross, and say hello. This is really a great effort and it is good to note that they are also getting some help form the wonderful TPF (The Perl Foundation Homepage) at this event.

Frameworks

The other notable item for me this week was the article by Stevan Little On Frameworks, I really like Stevan’s blog he always seems so wide read, considering how busy the guy is I wonder how he makes the time to do so much reading and thinking on things. Thankfully I can read his blog so that I don’t have to think about them : ). Also good to note that Miyagawa has taken yet another step closer to a version 1.0 release of Plack (Plack the Perl Web Server)

Cultured Perlers

In a bold move I have decided that I will start yet another blog initiative (I currently blog to 4 places, some more than others which are all linked from flavors.me/mdk) if Dave Cross gets his Cultured Perl site up and running. I like the idea and have expressed the need for more introduction/promotion of the Perl community to a wider world and expressed this as part of my keynote, so I felt obliged to join in. My only concern will be the overlap with this blog and the strain on my limited writing capabilities. But, hey ho, we will see what happens. Hopefully Dave will let us all know soon what is going on.

That wraps up my week of Ironman posts that I needed to share with you.

-ttfn – Mark