Last weekend, we had a very successful (and very enjoyable) London Perl Workshop. After a five-year break, it was great to see so many old faces again. But in addition to people who had been regular attendees at recent workshops, two other groups of people were there in large numbers—people who had moved away from […]
After a break of five years, the London Perl Workshop returns next weekend. It’s been twenty years since the first one. This year’s event is at a new venue called The Trampery, which is very close to Old Street tube station. If you’re a veteran of the early-2000s “Silicon Roundabout” excitement, you’ll know the place […]
Over the last few months, I’ve been dabbling in using AI to generate or improve code. I have a subscription to GitHub Copilot and I’m finding it a really useful tool for increasing my productivity. Copilot comes in several different flavours, and I’ve been making particular use of a couple of them. Copilot Autocomplete was […]
We need programmers who like to play on the bleading edge. By trying out new features, they are able to report on problems that they find – and, in doing so, improve the experience for the many people who follow them. I’m not usually much of a bleading edge programmer. But I’ve been enjoying Perl’s […]
Back in May, I wrote a blog post about how I had moved a number of Dancer2 applications to a new server and had, in the process, created a standardised procedure for deploying Dancer2 apps. It’s been about six weeks since I did that and I thought it would be useful to give a little […]
