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Throwing in the towel

dagolden — Sun, 22 May 2011 03:27:46 +0000

A little over two years ago, I accepted the Perl Iron Man challenge. I found the challenge inspirational, and did a lot more blogging about projects I was working on than I would have otherwise. Hopefully, those who read my posts found them helpful, or at least interesting enough for the time it took to read them.

However, as I reflect on the doubling of my parental responsibilities and a pending shift to more entrepreneurial employment, I've decided to throw in the towel on Iron Man. I plan to keep blogging, but probably not at the pace I've been, nor always about Perl. I have new challenges in front of me and new projects in mind to tackle them. Of course, when they involve Perl, i'll be sure to mention it.

Stay tuned...

Iron Man ideas backlog

dagolden — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:55:49 +0000

There are so many topics I want to write about and so little time to write. Since I'm on vacation and supposedly relaxing and enjoying myself, I'm just going to list out some things that I might write about soon. If any are particularly appealing, let me know and I'll bump it towards the top of the todo stack.

Capture::Tiny, the last capturing module you'll ever need
Version numbering lessons and pitfalls
Re-imagining PAUSE/CPAN
Perl's punctuated equilibrium
Disagreeing agreeably
p5p: Wizards, leaders, managers and coaches
How to regression test CPAN modules
Changing Perl 5 development: to what end?

I can see the appeal of microblogging -- perhaps I'll try to compose a 140 character summary of each one and see which are actually worth expanding on to any length.

Really? Another blog?

dagolden — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:11:33 +0000

Yes, really. There are a number of projects I'm working on and I want a place to write about them. I've been using my use.perl.org journal but that's just becoming too painful to keep using. So I'll try to put stuff here from time to time and hope I can make it a habit.