Slides from a lightning talk given at Frozen Perl 2008.

1. josh mcadams
doubleclick/performics

2. in the beginning there was the one-liner

3. perl -MNet::Twitter -e
'Net::Twitter->new(
username => quot;mequot;,
password => quot;shhquot; )
->update(quot;presenting at frozen perlquot;)';

4. this is handy, i should put it on cpan

5. i should put it in a module

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8. but, that module needs to be called by an app

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11. hrm, the password and user name need to persist

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14. cleartext passwords aren’t too secure though

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17. some debugging output would be nice too

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20. what about tests?

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23. and documentation

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26. and cpan packaging

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29. two support requests

30. and two minor version releases

31. and you have app::tweet

32. a one-liner

33. exploded

34. so that random people online know when i brush
my teeth

35. perl is easy

36. cpan is great

37. packaging you perl for cpan is a challenge

38. thank you cpan contributors

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