Month: October 2011

  • Modern Core Perl

    The London Perl Workshop is in two weeks time. Have you registered yet? There are apparently 200 people signed up already. I’m going to be there giving a training course in the morning. It’s called Modern Core Perl and it will introduce many of the new features that have been added to the Perl core…

  • Perl Tutorial

    Google Reader just showed me Mithaldu’s blog post about the falling level of Google searches for the term “perl tutorial“. The fall is, of course, more than a little worrying and we should do what we can to get more people searching for Perl. But I wondered what results Google is currently returning for this…

  • Perl Search Engine

    Often on sites like StackOverflow you’ll see questions that people could have answered for themselves if they had just searched the right web sites (usually perldoc or CPAN). But instead, they just went straight for Google and ended up with some dodgy, out of date information that just left them confused. In order to get…

  • Modern Perl in Linux Format

    A couple of times, I’ve complained here about the standard of Perl articles in the British magazine Linux Format. Following the second of those articles I got into a discussion with Graham Morrison, the editor of the magazine and he offered me the opportunity to improve matters by writing my own short series of tutorials…