Perl Hacks

Month: May 2009

  • What I’m Doing At YAPC::Europe

    I think I’ve now worked out all of the things that I’m doing at YAPC::Europe this year. It’s turned into quite a list. The big news is that I’m giving an “Introductory Perl” training course over the weekend before the conference. One of the themes of the conference is to get more people involved in…

  • Forthcoming London.pm Meetings

    Here’s some advance notice of a couple of london.pm meetings. The next social meeting will be on Thursday June 4th at the Gunmakers. Social meetings are a chance for people to get together over a drink and talk about whatever takes their fancy (sometimes, that even includes Perl). There’s also a tradition that the leader…

  • YAPC Travel Plans

    On the offchance that anyone wants to travel at the same time, here are my travel plans for YAPC::Europe. Flying from Heathrow to Lisbon on BA502 on Friday 31st July. Leaving at 15:05 and arriving at 17:45. Staying in the Hotel Alif (possibly the least useful hotel web site that I’ve ever seen). Flying from…

  • Joining the Github Massive

    I got tired of hosting my own Subversion repostories and having to deal with setting up access for anyone who wanted to work on my CPAN code (ok, honestly, that was two people in the last five years!) So I’ve moved all of my CPAN modules (and a few other random bits and pieces to…

  • A Perl Programming Blog

    Here’s my new Perl programming blog. I have another blog where I talk about a number of different things, but I like to keep my Perl writing separate from the rest of it. Until recently I kept a Perl journal over at use.perl, but the technology behind that site is looking pretty dated so I…