Author Archives: Dave Cross

Crufty Old Perl

March 11, 2010 – 6:05 PM
It's eighteen months since I wrote "Why Corporates Hate Perl" and it's worth pointing out that the company I discussed in that article which was dropping Perl in favour of PHP and Java is still employing as many good Perl... Read More »
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Plug Plug Plug

March 1, 2010 – 9:50 PM
I've got another set of public training courses coming up next month. They will be held at the Imperial Hotel in Russell Square, London.There are three one-day courses - Introduction to Perl, Intermediate Perl and Advance Perl. They're running on... Read More »
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Marketing Perl at FOSDEM

February 19, 2010 – 1:04 PM
It's two weeks since I went to FOSDEM and I promised to write an article about what happened there. Better do that before I forget everything.Some time ago, Gabor applied for a Perl stand at this year's FOSDEM. The idea... Read More »
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META.yml and Building RPMs

February 10, 2010 – 1:03 PM
An email has flooded in. It was in response to my piece about Building RPMs from CPAN Distributions and it was from Andreas Koenig. Andreas runs PAUSE, which is the service CPAN authors use to upload stuff to CPAN, so... Read More »
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Useful RPM Stuff

February 9, 2010 – 10:43 AM
I forgot to mention this yesterday. I've set up a github project (see http://github.com/davorg/rpm_stuff) where I'll dump bits and pieces that I'm writing to make my RPM-building life easier.The first utility I've uploaded there is called can_rpmbuild. You pass it... Read More »
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Building RPMs from CPAN Distributions

February 8, 2010 – 1:01 PM
Regular readers will know that in the past I've shown some interest in building RPMs from CPAN distributions. It's been a while since I did much work in this area (although I do still release the occasional module to my... Read More »
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Cultured Perl Blog

February 2, 2010 – 9:29 AM
A couple of years ago I thought that one thing the Perl community was missing was a network of blog sites about Perl. I'm not talking about the individual blogs that are being shown off to such good effect by... Read More »
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FOSDEM

February 1, 2010 – 12:52 PM
This weekend is the annual FOSDEM conference in Brussels. I really enjoy FOSDEM but, for reasons I don't really understand, this will be the first time I've been since 2005. It will also be one of the rare occasions where... Read More »
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Perl Web Server

January 22, 2010 – 9:10 AM
Coming a little late to this game, but I understand there are some concerns in the Perl community that the phrase "Perl Web Server" doesn't find the best site when you search for it in Google. I'm happy to add... Read More »
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Market Research

January 12, 2010 – 3:18 PM
I hope no-one minds if I use this post to do a quick bit of market research.I'm planning to run some more public Perl training courses in April. Until now when I've run these courses, they have been pretty generic... Read More »
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