Month: March 2011
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Perl Vogue T-Shirts
In Pisa I gave a lightning talk about Perl Vogue. People enjoyed it and for a while I thought that it might actually turn into a project. I won’t though. It would just take far too much effort. And, besides, a couple of people have pointed out to be that the real Vogue are rather…
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Perl News
Remember use.perl? It’s moth-balled now, but for years it provided two valuable services to the Perl community. Firstly it provided a hosted blog platform which many people used to write about many things – sometimes even Perl. Of course we now have blogs.perl.org which provides a very similar service. And secondly, it provided a place…
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Fedora and Centos CPAN RPMs
Today I’ve updated my spreadsheets of the CPAN modules that are available as RPMs from various repositories for Fedora and Centos. I see that in many cases the “official” repos are now more up to date than my own repo (which I originally set up because the official repos are sometimes out of date). This…
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London.pm Tech Meeting
On Thursday we had the first London.pm tech meeting for a rather long time. But it was well worth the wait. We were at Net-A-Porter‘s very nice offices above the Westfield shopping centre. There were four interesting talks. Pete Sergeant talked about High Level Web Testing, Zefram explained the New Extensibility Features Coming in Perl…