Have more fun with Perl via Questhub

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Have more fun with Perlvia Questhub

Neil Bowers

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3 great virtues of a programmer

• Laziness• Impatience• Hubris

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3 realities of this programmer

• Procrastinating• Attention-deficit• Yak shaver

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AND YET

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I've been having more fun,anddoing more Perl side projects since I started playing with Questhub

http://questhub.io

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What is Questhub?

• A themed social to-do list

• You start quests in any of the realms

• Everyone can see, and comment on, your quests

• Liking a quest gives +1

• When you complete a quest, you get the points

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Barbie: see my module on CPAN :-)

BOOK: it's REGEXP not REGEX, you're looking in the wrong place

This talk!

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You can look at everyone's quests

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You can team up on quests

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Stencils: template quests

• Give a talk at a local Perl meet-up

• Email a CPAN author & thank them for their module

• Blog about a module you're using

• Contribute an article to the Perl Advent calendar

• Port a module to p5-mop

• Adopt a CPAN module

• Give a lightning talk

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Your quest

• Sign up for Questhub, if you haven't already

• Browse the open quests, and +1 a few

• Browse the Perl stencils and maybe try one or two

• Comment on my most recent quest (added today)

• Questhub brought to you by Vyacheslav Matyukhin• MMCLERIC• @berekuk

http://questhub.io

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