September2012Meeting

Thursday, September 13th, 6:53pm at FreeGeek – 1731 SE 10th Ave.

CPAN Modules Not With h2xs + Dist::Zilla and Pod::Weaver

speakers: Ian Dees + Joshua Keroes

Ian will cover what it's like for n00bs learning how to create a new Perl module, including:

• Where rookies look for "Getting Started" information
• Which tools we can readily find for the job
• What kinds of questions we have about namespaces
• What Ian would like to do to help:
  • Listen to your answers
  • Format them into some kind of guide (or supplement an existing one)
  • Hand it to a Perl expert to post in the right place
  • Commit to checking in a couple of times a year to keep the information current

You will be vastly enlightened, or horrified.

Joshua will continue down the Dist::Zilla path of Automated Enlightenment and speak on Pod::Weaver.

In July, Duke Leto gave Portland an introduction to Dist::Zilla, demonstrating how it can help write, package, test, and release your modules; automating the boring stuff like figuring out prerequisites, automatically inserting and updating $VERSION's, getting rid of all those meta files and generating them automatically; all good ways to focus on the important stuff: the code.

This month, Joshua will show how Pod::Weaver can help automate the boring parts of writing documentation so you can avoid getting bogged down by boilerplate and focus on the important stuff there: the docs.