Hi all, here I'm sharing some of my impressions and memoirs from the previous Tel Aviv mongers meeting:
1. Most people arrived before the schedule, but we still started late due to an active discussion that took place. We also finished kinda late, so no one went to the restaurant. Maybe it's the summer. 2. Sawyer mentioned that they have some Systems' Adminstration and QA openings at his current workplace, and that people can contact him about it (I hope it is OK to mention here). Since I am looking for that now, I already sent him my résumé and he forwarded it to QA. 3. The earlier discussion involved a discussion on why Jave is sometimes being preferred to Perl. One issue is that Java is much more stricter than Perl by default, and that you need to always play by the rules. Then, people mentioned that if you hire 10 developers to work with Java or with PHP, then you won't lose much if two of them become unavailable, while if you hire only two Perl developers, then you will be in trouble. Or at least that is what managers think. 4. Sawyer mentioned DDP there: https://metacpan.org/release/Data-Printer One can do perl -MDDP and then do "::p $myvar" anywhere in the program. Later on I tried playing with it, but noticed that: 1. DDP.pm did not have POD on CPAN (but it did on github). 2. it didn't work for plain values. 3. Some of the colours did not work properly on my screen. So it seems kinda quirky. I mentioned https://metacpan.org/module/App::p which I was reminded of. ---- 5. I enjoyed Sawyer's talk about the layout of a CPAN distribution (which was similar to what he presented in the last Israeli Perl workshop), and his later talk about FatPacker. With regards to Gabor's talk, he mentioned that he did not have enough time to prepare for it and that he decided to do a discussion instead, so it was rather disappointing (sorry!). 6. The FatPacker procedure seems to involve several manual steps, which I'm not sure if can be automated. It still seems useful 7. There was some discussion about whether FatPacker can handle XS-based modules and Sawyer said it could not. For that I guess, one will need to use PAR or a similar solution. ------------------- Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ UNIX Fortune Cookies - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/ Chuck Norris is the greatest man in history. He killed all the great men who could ever pose a competition. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
