% Look ma, no installing! % Jess Robinson % London Perl Workshop, Dec 2010
- Invented to teach co-workers
- Put on CPAN, but pretty basic
- Started upgrading, with real-world application example, never released
- Gets used anyway, google finds it
- Lots of IRC questions
- Generally "solve this problem I'm stuck on"
- Help by thwacking with a fishing rod, not giving fish
- Documentation can be good, but often needs lots of examples
- Only tells one layer of the story, usually a reference to available classes/methods
- Even a tutorial only tells one angle
- Replace some of the standard questions
- Try it out for yourself, no installing required
- Catalyst web frontend
- chroot'd environment backend
- Solve exercises == passing unit tests!
- Obligatory social media add-ons, friending, openid, comments etc.
- [http://github.com/castaway/progtorial]
- [http://twitter.com/progtorial]