Category: Community

  • Cultured  Perl

    Cultured Perl

    Back in about 2008, I set up a group blog called “Cultured Perl”. The idea was to have a blog that concentrated on the Perl community rather than the technical aspects that most Perl bloggers write about most of the time. It didn’t last very long though and after a few posts it quietly died.…

  • Mailing Lists

    Over the years I’ve set up a few mailing lists for the discussion of various projects I’ve been involved with. There’s always an expectation that mailing lists will flourish without much input from me. But it never works out like that. The truth is that most mailing lists just quietly die. And, in many cases,…

  • London Perl Jobs Mailing List

    London.pm is undergoing one of its periodic reorganisations. We’re in the process of moving our web site over to a new server and as part of that move, we’ve decided that we’ll move our mailing list infrastructure to a third party system. Both the main discussion list and the announcements list will be run on…

  • Perl Recruitment Thoughts

    Not many weeks go by when I don’t hear of another Perl-using company that has been evaluating alternative technologies. In most cases, it’s not because they think that Perl is a bad language to use. The most common reason I hear is that it is becoming harder and harder to find good Perl programmers. On…

  • London Perl Mongers Meeting

    I thought you might be interested in a couple of events that the London Perl Mongers have coming up in the next couple of months. Technical Meeting 24th July 2014, Conway Hall Currently, four talks have been announced. Thomas Klausner (domm) from Vienna.pm is going to talk about OX & AngularJS  Alex Balhatchet is going…