Month: September 2009

  • Building Web Sites with Perl

    Over on my other blog last night I wrote a piece about how building simple web sites has never been easier. I talked about how it’s really simple to use something like WordPress or Drupal to build a web site that will suit the needs of many organisations – charities, schools, organisations like that. You’ll…

  • Speaking and Training and Stuff

    I spent some time over the weekend adding events to the london.pm group on Facebook. If you’re on face book, then joining the group is a good way to keep up to date with what london.pm is doing. But for the three of you who aren’t on Facebook, here’s a summary of what I added.…

  • The Definitive Guide to Catalyst

    I’ve just published my review of “The Definitive Guide to Catalyst“. I thought it was worth quoting the final paragraph here: The application development methods discussed by the authors of this book are the ones which will define good Perl development practice in the coming years. If you have any interest in how you should…

  • Greenwich Mean Time

    Some of you might already know that I run the nms project. We supply drop in replacements for the CGI programs from Matt’s Script Archive in an attempt to raise the average quality of Perl on the web. Having my email address associated with a project like that brings me some… er… interesting mail. Here’s…

  • Perl Twitter Feed

    Last August, when I was writing my talk Proud to Use Perl for YAPC::Europe, I wanted to get a feel for what real people were actually saying about Perl. It’s all very well claiming that people say Perl is dead, but I wanted to get some real quotations to use in the talk. I came…