Lightning talk from Dutch Perl Workshop 2013

1. Can Perl be a hobby?
Anatoly Sharifulin
Dutch Perl Workshop 2013

2. –Who uses Perl every day?

3. –Those who earn their living
this way?

4. – And who loves Perl? :-)

5. Perl and I
Small success-story

6. I've been using Perl
since 2005

7. I am 28
Perl is 25

8. Perl began as a hobby

9. Became my work

10. Awesome
and interesting work

11. 1. I wrote various
bots, spiders, utilities,
websites, admin panels,
API for mobile apps
using Perl

12. BTW, thanks to @nperez
I used POE::Filter::SimpleHTTP :-)

13. 2. In addition to
my work I have "grown"
12 Perl developers

14. 3. Organized
RostovOnDon.pm

15. http://rostovondon.pm.org

16. 40+ subscribers
~3 active users :-)

17. 4. Organized
the 3 Russian
Perl Workshop
South Perl
rd

20. 5. I was a speaker
at 14+ Perl
conferences and
workshops

21. Once I gave the talk
Perl is a bullshit!

23. 6. I had 170 #Perl posts
in my blog
http://sharifulin.posterous.com

24. 7. I'm still a CPAN
author
https://metacpan.org/author/SHARIFULN

25. Summary

26. Perl becomes
a great tool for me

27. I can solve
almost any task

28. I can solve
almost any task
I hope that
:-)

29. Last year I decided that
Perl can be a hobby

30. Yippee!
Perl can be my hobby
again

31. But I need money :-)

32. But I need money :-)
Minimum 75€ for nlwp();

33. I remembered
I like mobile apps too

34. And I started to search
a new job

35. where I can do my
favorite things

36. I found it!

37. I'm head of mobile
marketing at Ostrovok.ru

38. Ostrovok.ru is yet
another B.com :-)

39. I can generate some
mobile reports
Parse CSV files:
map, grep, split, re, <DATA>

40. No Excel,
only Perl, only hardcore!

41. Mobile dashboards,
admin panels, graphics,
etc.

42. It's fast, useful and cool!

43. Simple small tasks:

44. 1. Check redirect URL
for mobile app tracking

45. $ MOJO_MAX_REDIRECTS=0
perl -Mojo -E
'say h(shift)->headers->location'
http://...

46. 2. Check mobile banner
on the single-page
web app

47. use ojo;
say g(
'http://ostrovok.ru',
{'User-Agent' => 'Googlebot/2.1
(+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)'}
)
->dom
->at('a.mobile-banner-titie')->{href}
;

48. 3. What does it mean?
utm_content=%7B%22app%22%3A338590452829694%2C
%22t%22%3A1366249099%7D

49. use Mojo::Util;
say
Mojo::Util::url_unescape
$utm_content;

50. ...

51. You can ask me:

52. – Are you tired of Perl?

53. No!

54. I like Perl 5

55. But I like Modern Perl

56. Perl 5.16, Plack/PSGI,
Starman, Mojolicious,
AnyEvent, etc.

57. I belive that Perl can be
modern, fast and easy

58. And it isn't Ruby,
Python or JavaScript

59. In Perl 6 I trust

60. OR

61. In Perl 7 I trust :-)

62. use Perl or die;

63. Dank je wel!
Anatoly Sharifulin
@sharifulin