By James Aitken (LoonyPandora)
Date: Saturday, 24 November 2012 10:30
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: documentation marketing pod
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Perl is a very expressive language and your code can look like anything you can imagine. Good documentation is vital in helping others understand what your code does, why, and how they should use it.
Join me, and take a trip into the glamourous world of documentation. I want to show you how to produce beautiful documentation, write better copy, and how documentation helps market your code.
This talk will cover:
- The history, benefits, and limitations of POD as opposed to other documentation formats.
- How writing better documentation helps you write better code
- The social & marketing benefits of "pretty" documentation
- Introduction to CPAN modules that help improve your projects documentation
- Unveiling of shiny new secret project to ease the pain of creating documentation.
- James Mastros (theorbtwo)
- Marco Fontani (mfontani)
- Nigel Metheringham (nigelm)
- Victor Churchill
- Colin Bradford (cjbradford)
- Nuria Arranz-Velazquez
- Anatolie Mazur (Mask)
- James Aitken (LoonyPandora)
- Jason Clifford
- David Precious (bigpresh)
- James Ronan (Jim)
- Ross Hayes
- pierre masci (mascip)
- Richard Jelinek (the whip)
- Andreea Stanciu
- Istvan Gal
- Iain Campbell
- Merlyn Kline
- Tony Bedford
- Amalia Pomian
- Diana Donca
- Florentina Borse
- Adela Codrea
- Dumitru Negrea
- Pete Houston
- Mircea Patachi
- Tom Bloor
