The training courses for this summer’s YAPC in Pisa have been announced. And my course on Modern Perl has been chosen. It’s a one-day course on August 2th (just before the conference). It costs € 180. You’ll be able to book once the payments system on the conference web site goes live.
Here’s the description of the course from the YAPC site:
This course introduces the major building blocks of modern Perl. We’ll be looking at a number of CPAN modules that can make your Perl programming life far more productive. The major tools that we will cover will be:We’ll also look at some other modules including autodie, DateTime and TryCatch.
- Template Toolkit
- DBIx::Class
- Moose
- Catalyst
- Plack
There are several other good courses running both before and after the conference. I’m sure there’ll be something that you’ll find interesting.
N.B: This is not an April Fool’s joke!

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