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Perl Survey results

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! One thing I’m learning about life in Vanuatu is that everything moves slowly. Especially bits, up and down to the satellite that provides net access here. My connectivity is graciously provided by CNS, where I have [...]

And we’re off

I’m off on two months of travel, during which I may have patchy or intermittent net access. I’m hoping to blog and post photos, but I’ll have to see how the bandwidth looks when I get there.

Here are my travel plans courtesy of Dopplr, who have recently created this facility to add a [...]

Benford’s Law

I’m putting together the results of the Perl Survey, and as I sat on IRC this evening I mentioned that I was collating the data regarding years’ experience in programming.

“I bet,” said Greg McCarroll, “that about 30% of people said they have either 1 year or 10-19 years’ experience.”

I took a look at the [...]

The Perl Survey, email addresses, and conversion rates

I haven’t mentioned it here before, but I’m running a survey of the Perl community over at perlsurvey.org. If you’re a Perl programmer, or even just an occasional user — modifying the odd CGI script, or writing a quick script to automate some sysadmin tasks, for instance — then please take 5 minutes [...]