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Writing 2014-05-25
Monday, June 30th, 2014
PBP: 018 Breaking by Precedence
Monday, June 30th, 2014This Practice is to break long expressions at lower-possible operators. It actually says “the lowest possible precedence”. At a glance, this sounds like a fine idea, and it, in general, is. The reason given is pretty solid, that you can easily confuse people about precedence by splitting things apart. This will be even more important on operators people may not be familiar with the precedence of. (Quiz: Which is higher precedence “&&” or “and”? Which is higher precedence, “~” or “^”?)
Writing 2014-05-24
Sunday, June 29th, 2014
Writing 2014-05-23
Sunday, June 29th, 2014
Writing 2014-05-22
Sunday, June 29th, 2014
Writing 2014-05-21
Sunday, June 29th, 2014
WebGUI: A Perl replacement for WordPress
Saturday, June 28th, 2014I’ve been watching the YAPC::NA presentations, and saw a mention of this Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083389021/create-perl-competition-to-the-php-content-managem
This is a project to help get a system written in Perl to compete with WordPress. There is an existing system that’s close, all it needs is time, energy, and developers. It sounds like there’s a great core there, but it’s lost the commercial support it had before, and the one developer can’t go it alone.
The Kickstarter is to try and fund some key work on it, and make it more accessible and as easy to get started as WordPress.
Sadly, the Kickstarter’s getting close to no traction, and that makes it look kind of bleak.
Here’s a signal boost; have a look at the system, read the page (the video has lots of good stuff, but it’s a little wordy) and consider supporting this useful development.
If you can’t support the Kickstarter, maybe you have time to help them get the major new release unblocked and keep it from sinking into the murk of obscurity.
At the end of the video, they point out that a hundred people giving a hundred dollars each will fund it, and get it over some of these hurdles. A thousand people giving ten dollars each would work just as well.
