Getting ready

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A big thank you goes to all of the authors, all of you dear readers and all of the sites which help us promote the effort:

Also, here are some other sites doing the “advent drive”:

• 24 Pull Requests – “a yearly initiative to encourage developers around the world to send a pull request every day in December up to Xmas”
• 24 ways – “is the advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish a daily dose of web design and development goodness to bring you all a little Christmas cheer”
• The Perl Advent Calendar 2013
• WebAdvent
• Perl 6 Advent Calendar (if you didn’t hear – Perl 6 is a completely different language from Perl 5!)
• SysAdvent (not only) for sysadmins
• Performance Calendar Learn all about web performance. (Primarily focused on frontend technologies.)
• UXmas UX is for everyone. Brush up on the topic this December.

Update – more programming advent calendars:

• Catalyst Advent Calendar – for the Perl Catalyst MVC framework
• Perl Dancer Advent Calendar 2013 – for the Perl Dancer webframework