Extremely Perl

I stumbled upon a great resource today. I work in the corporate world and the place I work is very sold on the whole extreme programming (XP) model.

I've been through the training and can really see how it is beneficial and really want to start using it. However, our shop is almost entirely Java and the training also was very Java-centric.

I am one of the few Perl programmers who work there, and XP resources that deal with Perl are not that easy to find.

But, this morning I came across this site http://www.extremeperl.org/bk/home

It contains a book called Extreme Perl. The author, Robert Nagler, was kind enough to provide the book online for free! And, instead of it being a book that is written and then forgotten about, it is getting updated as needed.

I think this is a great resource to help people see what XP can do, and to possibly help them to transition over to XP development.

Now, if I could only get some people who are smart in Java and Perl to create some more Perl plug-ins and Perl refactoring plug-ins for the Eclipse IDE, I'd be much happer!

Posted by Brent Michalski at 01:18 PM  Permalink

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