Month: March 2010
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Perl Books
Those of you who have been following my work for some time might remember that many years ago I took some interest in Perl books. I don’t mean the kind of books that we all read (or, even write) with animals on the cover. I mean the kinds of terrible Perl books that at one…
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Training in Pisa
The YAPC::Europe organisers have put out a call for training courses. They want a number of courses to offer to attendees in the couple of days before the conference. The call closed yesterday and I expect they’ll be announcing the courses in a couple of weeks. I’ve given training courses at the last couple of…
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Crufty Old Perl
It’s eighteen months since I wrote “Why Corporates Hate Perl” and it’s worth pointing out that the company I discussed in that article which was dropping Perl in favour of PHP and Java is still employing as many good Perl programmers as it can find. I talked in that article about some rather unsubtle social…
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Plug Plug Plug
I’ve got another set of public training courses coming up next month. They will be held at the Imperial Hotel in Russell Square, London. There are three one-day courses – Introduction to Perl, Intermediate Perl and Advance Perl. They’re running on the 13th, 14th and 15th of April. More details on my training web site.…