It’s never too late. Especially with the rapid changes in technology, systems, processes and the like…they need to continuously improve on things to stay in the business. Just my two cents worth.

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Looks like jqGrid has a wiki, and they mention Perl, but I’m not sure where the sample code might go, off the top of my head. Where do you think the best place to put a sample might be?

I jumped over to the Ext JS site, and while the start-up guide only has a PHP example, the basic login example in the Tutorials section has a number of language-specific examples, including one for Perl. I’ve not seriously looked at it and can’t vouch for its swellness, but it’s there.

Other than the Ext JS and the jQuery Grid Plugin items, what comes to mind as flashy/catchy/new, that doesn’t have a Perl reference?

This sounds like a job for the Perl Ironman SWAT team. If 1/10 of the folks there dropped by and added just one example to their respective wikis, I bet it would blow their minds.

I think it’s a good thing there’s more than one way to accomplish things. I would hope it would let folks figure out which was was “best” for some specific purpose. Sadly, there is a lot of “cargo cult,” cut-and-paste, this-is-the-way-of-our-forefathers, rote-learning code out there–in Perl and every other language.

One of the things I liked about the Perl Cookbook was the emphasis on why something worked the way it did. Yes, it let me get this thing done right now but it also gave me the reasoning behind the sample so I could get a better grasp on when (and when not) to do something.

I think a lot of Perl coding advice should come with a freshness date. I’m starting to think my (only half-kidding) suggestion about changing the name of the language is a better and better idea. It would certainly help folks find avoid “help” that was only relevant for ten- to fifteen-year-old Perl versions.

It is hard for newbie to find example codes, let alone docs that are working on this trendy/hype tools with Perl as server side language.

I think the Perl community is realizing that they need to change some things around. This is healthy regardless of the language. I don’t think it’s too late for Perl, it has such a following.