The other day on Hacker News, there was a good discussion of Avdi Grimm‘s talk on how to write Confident Code given at this year’s Ruby Midwest. He covers four areas: gather input, perform work, deliver results and handle failure. Here are links to the code example showing the initial, timid and final, confident code.

Explaining Why Moose is Awesome – The Direct Way
The Perl community knows that Moose is awesome as evidenced by the amount of talks at YAPC and the number of times it is mentioned on blog articles and discussion boards. However, to me, what often seems to get lost is why Moose is awesome and why it is relevant, especially to those outside the