pages tagged crosspost/blogs.perl.orgENETDOWNhttp://enetdown.org//tag/crosspost/blogs.perl.org/ENETDOWNikiwiki2013-08-20T17:02:03ZLocal hackathons (and how Perl can help)http://enetdown.org//dot-plan/posts/2013/05/12/local_hackathons_and_how_perl_can_help/zaki2013-08-20T17:02:03Z2013-05-12T16:19:09Z
<p>Crossposted from <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/zaki/2013/05/local-hackathons-and-how-perl-can-help.html">blogs.perl.org</a>.</p>
<p>Hi everyone, this is my first blog post on here (<a href="http://szabgab.com/">Gabor Szabo</a>++ for reminding me
that I need to blog!).
Last week, I <a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl-mongers.houston/1534">posted</a>
to the Houston.pm group inviting them to come out to the local <a href="http://houstonhackathon.com/">City of Houston
Open Innovation Hackathon</a>.</p>
<p>I was planning on attending since I first heard about it a couple of weeks ago,
but I saw this also as an opportunity to build cool things in Perl and show
what Perl can do.</p>
<p>To those that don't interact much with the Perl community, Perl is completely
invisible or just seen in the form of short scripts that do a single task.
Showing people by doing is a great way to demonstrate how much Perl has
progressed in recent years with all tools that have been uploaded to CPAN and
that Perl systems can grow beautifully beyond 1,000 SLOC.</p>
<p>Going to hackathons like these also make for a great way to network with the
local technology community and see what type of problems they are interested in
solving. I would love to see what type of approaches they take in their
technology stack and whether those approaches can be adapted and made Perlish.</p>