Wellington Perl Mongers had their monthly meeting this week and we tried something new that worked reasonably well so I thought I'd share it here. A little bit like lightning talks but with a more specific focus. From the announcement email ...

Script Spotlight

Briefly tell us about a script you've written and use regularly. Things you might talk about:

What problem it solves - how it makes your life better

An interesting feature of the code

Ideas you have for making it better

What made it super easy (e.g.: a CPAN module, a feature of Perl, etc.)

Did you write your script in Perl - why/why not?

If you can't immediately think of a candidate script then here are some places to look to jog your memory:

your $HOME/bin directory

/usr/local/bin

your cgi-bin directory

scripts called from cron jobs

scripts called from your editor

scripts attached to a hot key

Nagios checks

See you there - with your script :-)