Comments for Rassie's Doghouse

Comment on On ducks and ducklings by Gabriel Weinberg

Gabriel Weinberg — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:27:31 +0000

Hey, I’m the founder. I completely agree with what you’ve written here and am trying to find ways to reach “normal” people with features that are compelling to them. If you have any ideas please let me know!

Comment on On ducks and ducklings by aero

aero — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:54:06 +0000

Another Perl based search engine http://blekko.com is coming… http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926813

Comment on Perl’s visibility and branding by Zbigniew Lukasiak

Zbigniew Lukasiak — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:20:04 +0000

Adding to the ‘articles in magazines’ line of thought - how about starting with something easier like the online aggregators (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/, http://news.ycombinator.com/, slashdot, etc.). I myself often write my blog posts with the intention to reach bigger audience than just the Perl community, but I mostly fail when I try self-submitting them, I would appreciate feedback how to improve my blog posts.

Comment on On generating buzz by Zbigniew Lukasiak

Zbigniew Lukasiak — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:09:15 +0000

OK - I agree, but we’ll not change the name - I just cannot imagine a scenario where this could happen. So what is left is small steps, like adding adjectives ‘Modern Perl’ or maybe ‘The Perl Ecosystem’ (the second one would refer to CPAN and the community - the things that are really unique about Perl).One more thought - if eventually we get Perl6 that is workable (I don’t follow Perl6 too close - but from what I do hear from the project I am pretty confident that we’ll have Perl6 quite soon - with just one concern - it can be too slow for anything practical right now) - so when we finally get workable Perl6 - it can generate quite a bit of buzz just because of the whole negativity that surrounds the project. It would be a great surprise - so it has potential to change the way people think.

Comment on On generating buzz by Justin Davis

Justin Davis — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:32:19 +0000

I very much enjoy all of your articles and can’t help but agree with you.

Comment on Rant #213, in which a 1200+ pages book is judged and dismissed by its table of contents by Kent Fredric

Kent Fredric — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:16:20 +0000

I have to agree, from the points you pick out, it looks like a shameful waste of the authors time to have published this book. They might be recommended to you know, actually learn Perl and that whole CPAN thing, participate in the community and so-forth before deciding to publish a book on the matter.Also, that YAPE::Regexp::Explain thing has been outdated since 5.10 came out. All the modern Regexp syntaxes are unsupported by it and just breaks the explainer horrifically. ( I reported this bug back in 2008: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=41497 , no progress ).This book to me is probably on par with somebody releasing a book on Apache but only covering Apache 1, or somebody releasing a book on PHP, but only covering PHP4 ….Shocking really.

Comment on On generating buzz by rassie

rassie — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:55:20 +0000

@Jochen: Is that meant to be a compliment? ;)

Comment on On generating buzz by Jochen Hayek

Jochen Hayek — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:40:55 +0000

»a brand with definitive associations, namely “ugly” and “incomprehensible”« you are a weirdo

Comment on Perl’s visibility and branding by Rassie’s Doghouse » On generating buzz

Rassie’s Doghouse » On generating buzz — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:51:21 +0000

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Comment on Perl’s visibility and branding by Nilson

Nilson — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:29:12 +0000

I only wish more people in the Perl community shared your points of view (specially the most influential ones). I think you’re right on the spot with your branding analogy.