Perl Hacks: Just another Perl hacker’s blog

  • Blogging for Perl

    Blogging for Perl

    I think it was at YAPC Copenhagen in 2008 that a small group of us first discussed the idea of building a shared blogging platform for the Perl community. It was over a year later that we launched blogs.perl.org. I remember a lot of discussions over that time where we tried to thrash out exactly…

  • The Best of Perl Hacks

    The Best of Perl Hacks

    What do you do when you’re stuck inside because Coronavirus means that your country is in lockdown? Well, you write a book, of course. Or, to be more accurate, you cobble together fifty or so old blog posts into a book. So that’s what I’ve done. Now you can read some of your favourite Perl…

  • PerlCon Europe 2019

    PerlCon Europe 2019

    Last week I was in Riga for this year’s European PerlCon (the conference formerly known as YAPC::Europe). As has become traditional, here’s my report of the conference. My conference began on Tuesday night at the pre-conference meet-up. Most people get into town on the night before the conference starts and the organisers always designate a…

  • Counting Weekends and Wrapping Text

    Counting Weekends and Wrapping Text

    I said that I probably wouldn’t have time to get involved with the Perl Weekly Challenge every week and that has, unfortunately, proven to be the case. But I had a few free minutes earlier in the week so I decided to look at this week’s challenges. I’m glad I did because they seemed to…

  • Perl Conference in Riga

    Perl Conference in Riga

    It’s only two weeks until I head to Riga for PerlCon 2019. I thought it was worthwhile posting a quick update confirming that I was going and telling you what I would be doing there. Firstly, I’ve previously mentioned that I was planning to run my “Modern Web Development with Dancer” workshop on the day…

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