Year: 2011
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A Brief History of the LPW
In his opening remarks on Saturday, Mark Keating suggested that we might be at the tenth London Perl Workshop. That seemed unlikely to me, so I’ve done a little research. And it seems that I was right. The first LPW was in 2004, which makes this year’s the eighth. In a way, I’m happy that…
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Modern Core Perl Slides
Here are the slides from the Modern Core Perl talk that I gave at the LPW yesterday. Modern Core Perl View more presentations from Dave Cross A great day at the workshop as always. And what a lot of people there were! Thanks to everyone who organised, spoke or attended.
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Modern Core Perl
The London Perl Workshop is in two weeks time. Have you registered yet? There are apparently 200 people signed up already. I’m going to be there giving a training course in the morning. It’s called Modern Core Perl and it will introduce many of the new features that have been added to the Perl core…
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Perl Tutorial
Google Reader just showed me Mithaldu’s blog post about the falling level of Google searches for the term “perl tutorial“. The fall is, of course, more than a little worrying and we should do what we can to get more people searching for Perl. But I wondered what results Google is currently returning for this…
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Perl Search Engine
Often on sites like StackOverflow you’ll see questions that people could have answered for themselves if they had just searched the right web sites (usually perldoc or CPAN). But instead, they just went straight for Google and ended up with some dodgy, out of date information that just left them confused. In order to get…