Author Archives: Dave Cross

Too Easy or Too Hard

September 29, 2010 – 7:28 PM
We hear a lot of people complaining that programming in Perl is too difficult, but I think that a lot of these problems stem from people making the opposite assumption - that writing Perl is easier than it actually is.... Read More »
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Marketing Perl

September 19, 2010 – 3:05 PM
Sometimes people ask me why Perl marketing is so important. This morning I came across an excellent example of the kind of thing that we're trying to counter. In the current issue of Linux Format, there's an article about building... Read More »
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Modern Perl at OpenTech

September 12, 2010 – 11:10 AM
Modern PerlView more presentations from Dave Cross. OpenTech is an annual one-day conference in London where geeks get together and share information about cool things they are doing with technology. The emphasis is on projects that improve society in... Read More »
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Net::Songkick

August 25, 2010 – 9:22 PM
Sometimes it's good to just take a new idea and hack on it for a couple of hours to see what happens. That's what I've done this evening. I've been using Songkick for a while. Songkick is a web site... Read More »
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Learning About Traits

August 23, 2010 – 9:13 AM
I've been teaching basic Moose in my training courses for several years now. And, as I've mentioned before, I've been slowly converting some of my CPAN modules to use Moose. But there are still bits of Moose that I haven't... Read More »
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Perl Vogue

August 5, 2010 – 9:09 AM
I'm at YAPC::EU in Pisa, so I'm too busy having fun to write a long blog post about my new project - Perl Vogue. But I thought you might be interested in the lightning talk that I used to announce... Read More »
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Modern Perl at OpenTech

July 6, 2010 – 9:13 AM
I mentioned a few months ago that I'd be running an "Introduction to Modern Perl" training course at YAPC::Europe this year. But in the interests of speaking outside of the Perl community as much as possible, I'm also going to... Read More »
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YAPC::Europe Talks Accepted

June 23, 2010 – 8:49 AM
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... Read More »
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YAPC::Europe Talks

June 11, 2010 – 4:05 PM
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.... Read More »
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How Not to Ask a Question

June 10, 2010 – 1:34 PM
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... Read More »
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