Well the logo achieved its 15 minutes of glory when it was fortuitously screen captured for the following ReadWriteWeb article about Stackoverflow raising venture capital:

• http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/stackoverflow_business_funding.php

Well done to all those of you voted this up to make this happen

NB. This is the Hacker News post which pointed me to the ReadWriteWeb article.

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To submit an opensource project then you will need a login to their meta stackoverflow site (OpenID, once account created you can then associate this login with your stackoverflow one). After that you need logo of 220x220px and a link to the opensource project.

The final prerequisite is that the submission receives a minimum of 6 votes before ad is served up.

There are currently the following Perl projects listed (all of these are currently above 6 votes and so do get served):

• Moose
• Catalyst
• Padre

And I have just gone and added PDL & Template Toolkit to this list:

NB. Anyone wanting to improve on my cropping & massaging I did to get logo’s to 220×220 then please do so (its a community wiki. Just login and amend).

As part of Perl marketing, advocacy, support or whatever tickles your fancy, please consider adding some other Perl projects which you find invaluable. And while there please help out the current projects with an up vote

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PS. Perl itself could be included (there are Python & Clojure submissions). I’m not sure what logo should be used or even allowed to be used. Perhaps someone in the know with logo to hand could submit the appropriate ad.

PPS. Stackoverflow gets lots of eyeballs. Depending on what you read, its either around 1m or nearly 3m unique visits per month!

• Compete.com stats of SO
• Stackoverflow beats Experts-exchange

So thats a lot of developer eyeballs these ads are being beamed to!

Slipping in at number 10 with such other celebrated Perl names if indeed an honour. *blush*

Of course none of this will mean a jot if you’ve never heard of Stackoverflow.com!

Its a programming language question and answer site started by Joel Spolsky (of Joel on Software fame) and Jeff Atwood (of Coding Horror fame).

Its very similar in vein to Perlmonks except its for all programming languages and not just Perl and its also Q&A only. So no mediations, epiphanies or wandering off topic

You will need an OpenID account to start but once past that you will find the site easy to use. Just start asking or answering questions. You get up or down voted depending on the quality of your question/answer.

I do feel the site is more approachable than Perlmonks especially for beginners. Its also a good place to start when looking for a clear answer to a specific question.

So what’s in it for me?

Well you can just view it as a game or challenge. Perhaps even treat it as a ladder to Rock and Roll stardom! Certainly nothing wrong with bit of ego inflating now and then

Or you can view it as a philanthropic pursuit by spreading things you learnt with others.

However the thing I get most from it all is that I’m continuing to learn new things. And in most cases its from my own answers! You can really enhance your Perl foo and improve your Perl memory muscles when trying to answer a question.

Disclaimer: It can get addictive. If you have a procrastinating nature then please avoid during the working day

So what’s in it for all of us?

Stackoverflow continues to grow. More and more programmers are getting sucked into it. Some of these are beginners or language toe dippers so the presence of good Perl questions & answers may benefit the Perl community in many different ways.

Here’s a good place to start: Perl tagged questions.

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