perl.org actually looks modern now! This has been in the works for a while now and, as far as I know, Leo Lapworth was the principle designer. And no, this was not a result of the marketing committee. Just another great volunteer who wanted to make Perl not look dead :)
There are other nice things to come, too. I'm really looking forward to some of the changes which are occurring in the Perl community.
Update: Apparently, Foxtons is responsible for sponsoring this work. For those outside the UK: Foxtons, from what I understand, is one of the largest estate agents in the UK. Apparently, they got there by being very innovative and investing in a top-notch IT department. An IT department which, not surprisingly, uses a lot of Perl :)
Re:Awesome!
Ovid on 2009-11-13T15:17:56
perl.com belongs to Tom Christiansen and he let's O'Reilly use it. We don't have any control over that. Maybe O'Reilly would let us do something with it, but it's potentially a valuable enough domain name that they might be loathe to do that.
Re:Awesome!
chromatic on 2009-11-13T19:40:27
... it's potentially a valuable enough domain name that they might be loathe to do that. Given that they haven't published anything on it since May 2008 (18 months!), that it has a prominent link to "expanded Perl news coverage" (which leads to a marketing page almost as abandoned), and that the only updates it sees are blurbs from feeds which point to mostly irrelevant marketing posts which barely mention Perl (okay, one of the posts has some cringeworthy, copy and paste code), I have difficulty imagining that they receive any value from it.
If that's not enough for you, consider that the top Google search for "download Perl" leads to Downloading the Latest Version of Perl (outdated link), which is almost a year out of date -- it mentions Perl 5.10.0, Perl 5.9.4, Perl 5.8.8, Perl 5.6.2, and Parrot 0.5.2 as the most recent versions in their release series.
That's not only wrong, but it's actively harmful -- that's the only other page on the site which with any traffic. What a pity that "The source for Perl" is so misleading.
Re:Awesome!
Stevan on 2009-11-13T21:07:44
If Tom owns it, can we get it back from O'Reilly?Re:Awesome!
chromatic on 2009-11-13T21:39:50
That's up to Tom and whatever contract they have.
