Month: June 2010

  • YAPC::Europe Talks Accepted

    The YAPC::Europe organisers said that they would tell speakers which talks had been accepted on July 1st. Well, it seems that the excitement was too much for them and they decided to do it a week earlier. Yesterday I got email telling me that some of my talks had been accepted and the list of…

  • YAPC::Europe Talks

    The Call for Papers for YAPC::Europe closes in four days. If you’re thinking of giving a talk in Pisa then this weekend would be a very good time to give it some serious thought. I proposed four talks last night. I’m hoping that the organisers won’t choose more than two of them, but I like…

  • How Not to Ask a Question

    I received this email last week. I often get random email from people I don’t know asking for help with Perl problems and I’m happy to help whenever I can (although I always point our that Perl Monks is going to get better answers in less time). But if you’re going to ask random strangers…