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The interest in improving the perception of Perl is increasing every day (much to my surprise!)…

Following on the last post about Prettier Perl Web sites and taking Sebastian Riedel's Don’t explain what you think would look better, just make a mockup and show us! challenge to heart, I spent some time looking at Perl's existing design patterns…

In doing a bit of background reading for this post, I stumbled on Sebastian Riedel's Perl Monk post from 2008 titled Prettier Perl websites. The discussion on that post is a fun read, as it highlights the polarization in the Perl community around Perl's (rather lousy) public image…

Given the active conversation unfolding around the perceptions of Perl, I wanted to follow-up with what was originally part of my previous post on the Perl community's multiple personality problem…

Recently, I've been reading with great interest about the future of Perl, and -- more specifically -- about how the outside sees Perl and how Perl might need a director of marketing…

Okay, here we go -- because you've all been so anxious for it -- the second part of the infamous Ten things to love (or hate) about Bricolage. In this week's post I'll focus on the things that, as a Bricolage implementer (which I'll refer to here as a developer, not to be confused with a Bricolage hacker), you might love (or hate) about Bricolage, the open-source enterprise-class content management system (CMS) that is used at New Internationalist.…

I passionately believe in Open, but I need your help to sell my case to the rest of the New Internationalist co-operative…

Behinds the scenes at www.newint.org and blog.newint.org is a tireless workhorse — a system that just keeps giving and giving — and that system is Bricolage…

Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai is a Sierra Leonean who has been campaigning tirelessly since 2005 for the Freedom of Information Act…

Internet freedom has become a critical component of functional democracies…