Month: November 2011

  • London Perl Workshop Review

    Unfortunately O’Reilly’s Josette Garcia couldn’t be at the London Perl Workshop, so she asked if I could write something about it for her blog. It took me longer than it should have done, but my post has just been published over at Josetteorama. Hopefully Josette will be back at next year’s event. She was much…

  • Programming Like It’s 1999

    This article was published yesterday. It shows a way to extract data about a film from IMDB and put it into a local database. Actually, it doesn’t even do that. It produces SQL that you can then run to insert the data. It’s all rather nasty stuff and indicative of the fact that most people…

  • Saint Pierre and Miquelon

    Does Saint Pierre and Miquelon mean anything to you? It’s a small French-owned territory just off the coast of Newfoundland. Why would this be of any interest on a Perl blog? Well, it’s a French territory with it’s own ccTLD. And that ccTLD is .pm. Ever since Perl Mongers started we’ve looked longingly at that…

  • A Brief History of the LPW

    In his opening remarks on Saturday, Mark Keating suggested that we might be at the tenth London Perl Workshop. That seemed unlikely to me, so I’ve done a little research. And it seems that I was right. The first LPW was in 2004, which makes this year’s the eighth. In a way, I’m happy that…

  • Modern Core Perl Slides

    Here are the slides from the Modern Core Perl talk that I gave at the LPW yesterday. Modern Core Perl View more presentations from Dave Cross A great day at the workshop as always. And what a lot of people there were! Thanks to everyone who organised, spoke or attended.