http://szabgab.com Gabor Szabo about programming in Perl, automated testing, dynamic languages and everyting else en-us Copyright 2002-2013, Gabor Szabo szabgab@gmail.com 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 1 hourly http://szabgab.com/perl-python-ruby-php-and-html5-on-google-trends.html Once in a while someone looks up some numbers regarding Perl and other languages, sees a downward graph, rings the warning bells, and then others start saying why is that not important, and there are more modules on CPAN anyway... As I have a lot of other urgent things to do, I decided a good way to procrastinate would be to look at some data. Some people and companies think that the number of pages having the term <b>programming perl</b>, is a good indication of language popularity. That certainly has some value, but I think seeing how many people are actually searching for a term has better indication for the interest in that term.... So I looked at the <a href="http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=perl%2C%20php%2C%20python%20-monty%2C%20ruby%20-pokemon%2C%20html5&cmpt=q">Google Trends</a> for the above 5 terms and tried to understand what I see there. <p>For the full article visit <a href="http://szabgab.com/perl-python-ruby-php-and-html5-on-google-trends.html">Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP and HTML5 on Google trends</a></p> Gabor Szabo 2013-05-21T13:01:16+00:00 Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, HTML5 http://szabgab.com/the-price-of-redirection.html 10 days ago I was wondering if I should <a href="http://szabgab.com/to-merge-or-not-to-merge.html">merge</a> the 3 Perl Maven sites. The recommendation by everyone was to merge the perl5maven.com site into the <a href="http://perlmaven.com/">perlmaven.com</a> site. As I had the same feeling too, I did it on May 1, just 8 days ago. It went quite smooth, but there was a price! <p>For the full article visit <a href="http://szabgab.com/the-price-of-redirection.html">The social price of redirection</a></p> Gabor Szabo 2013-05-08T13:59:12+00:00 Perl, Google+, Reddit, Twitter, Social proof, Perl Maven http://szabgab.com/comparing-perl-python-ruby-and-php.html You know I like useless statistics, right? So here are some: Comparing the ranking of Perl, Python, Ruby, and PHP related web sites. Once every few months I check the <a href="http://www.alexa.com/">Alexa</a> ranking of a bunch of sites that interest me on some level. Actually I track more than what you can see here, but this will be interesting to you. I promise. <p>For the full article visit <a href="http://szabgab.com/comparing-perl-python-ruby-and-php.html">Comparing Perl, Python, Ruby and PHP</a></p> Gabor Szabo 2013-04-30T23:16:58+00:00 Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Alexa http://szabgab.com/to-merge-or-not-to-merge.html I have a problem: Should I keep the 3 Perl Maven sites ( <a href="http://perl5maven.com/">Perl 5 Maven</a>, <a href="http://perl6maven.com/">Perl 6 Maven</a>, and <a href="http://perlmaven.com/">Perl Maven</a>) separate, or should I merge them together? Or maybe I should merge P5M into PM and leave P6M separate. <p>For the full article visit <a href="http://szabgab.com/to-merge-or-not-to-merge.html">To merge or not to merge?</a></p> Gabor Szabo 2013-04-28T18:04:29+00:00 Perl, Perl 5, Perl 6 http://szabgab.com/yapc-na-2013-training-classes.html There are going to be 7 <a href="http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/training.html">training courses</a> around <a href="http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/">YAPC::NA 2013 in Austin Texas</a>. Two 2-day courses, and a 1-day course before the conference. Three 1-day courses, and a 2-day course after the conference. (The same Git training runs twice. Once before and once after the conference.) I run two of the 2-day courses. You can already register, and <a href="http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/purchase">ensure your spot in the courses</a>. <p>For the full article visit <a href="http://szabgab.com/yapc-na-2013-training-classes.html">YAPC::NA 2013 training classes</a></p> Gabor Szabo 2013-03-27T22:37:52+00:00 Perl http://szabgab.com/perl-developers-and-countries.html If you ever wondered in which places are Perl developers more active, here is a little piece of the information slice. On the <a href="http://perlmaven.com/">Perl 5 Maven</a> site there were 92.322 visits between 1 January and 20 March 2013. Most people were interested in the <a href="http://perlmaven.com/perl-tutorial">Perl Tutorial</a> and the pages linked from it. 38% of the visitors arrived from the USA, 11.7% from India and 5.46% from the UK. On the other hand I am using <a href="https://bitly.com/">Bitly</a> to track the clicks on the articles in the <a href="http://perlweekly.com/">Perl Weekly newsletter</a>. They let me see the statistics only for 30 days, but I think this is fairly representative to the previous weeks: There were 10.820 clicks (4 issues of the Perl weekly) 36% in the USA, 7.55% in the UK and ... only 1.60% in India. Let's see the pies: <p>For the full article visit <a href="http://szabgab.com/perl-developers-and-countries.html">Perl developers and countries</a></p> Gabor Szabo 2013-03-22T15:53:29+00:00 Perl http://szabgab.com/beginner-perl-maven-ebook-1_24.html The new edition of the <a href="http://perlmaven.com/beginner-perl-maven-e-book">Beginner Perl Maven e-book</a> has been published. Some people say that the title is unclear, so let me explain. This is for people who would like to become Perl Mavens, but who know little or no Perl at all. Who are beginners on their path to become Perl Mavens. <p>For the full article visit <a href="http://szabgab.com/beginner-perl-maven-ebook-1_24.html">Perl Maven book for Beginners published (v1.24)</a></p> Gabor Szabo 2013-03-13T11:04:02+00:00 Perl, ebook http://szabgab.com/report-2013-02.html A couple of days ago I posted my <a href="http://szabgab.com/report-2013-01.html">monthly report for January</a>. Part of the reason for posting these is to help me see how much (or how little) work I have managed to do each month. It is not easy to build an on-line business as I can be distracted easily by various fun projects that might be interesting, but that don't move my business forward. (see below) The problem of course, is that without the business making enough money I won't have time to do the fun things... Anyway, the January report was posted quite late, but now I am posting this right after February ended and I plan to stick to this. <p>For the full article visit <a href="http://szabgab.com/report-2013-02.html">Report for February 2013</a></p> Gabor Szabo 2013-03-02T09:15:16+00:00 Perl, TODO, Report, ILPW http://szabgab.com/report-2013-01.html Last year, I wrote monthly TODO lists, and reports of my online accomplishments. Well, I wrote them sometime. This year, I have not even written a New Year's Resolution as it was so unclear what was the correlation between my plans for 2012 and my actual results. So let's write just results. (Yes, I know, it is bit late for the January report, but better late than...) <p>For the full article visit <a href="http://szabgab.com/report-2013-01.html">Report for January 2013</a></p> Gabor Szabo 2013-02-22T11:04:21+00:00 Perl, TODO, Report http://szabgab.com/israeli-perl-workshop-2013.html This year we were a bit in stealth mode with the organization of the <a href="http://act.perl.org.il/">Israeli Perl Workshop</a>, but it is not late to talk about it a bit. The workshop will take place on February 25, 2013 in the <a href="http://www.shenkar.ac.il/">Shenkar College</a> in Ramat Gan. The <a href="http://act.perl.org.il/ilpw2013/schedule">schedule of the workshop</a> is finally available. 19 talks in two tracks. <p>For the full article visit <a href="http://szabgab.com/israeli-perl-workshop-2013.html">Israeli Perl Workshop on February 25, 2013</a></p> Gabor Szabo 2013-02-11T14:54:14+00:00 Perl, Israel, 2013, Workshop