Year: 2011
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Modern Perl in Linux Format
A couple of times, I’ve complained here about the standard of Perl articles in the British magazine Linux Format. Following the second of those articles I got into a discussion with Graham Morrison, the editor of the magazine and he offered me the opportunity to improve matters by writing my own short series of tutorials…
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YAPC::Europe Report
It’s nearly three weeks since I got back from Riga. I should probably tell you a bit about what I did. I flew over on Saturday and on Sunday I gave my “Introduction to Modern Perl” talk. There were nine people on the course and they all seemed to find it useful. The conference itself…
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Modern Core Perl at the LPW
This year’s London Perl Workshop will be on November 12th. We’ve just tied down the details of the free training course that I’ll be running on the day. It will be called “Modern Core Perl” and will be a two-hour discussion of how the Perl core has changed since Perl 5.10. More details nearer the…
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YAPC::Europe Preview
Earlier this year I met Josette Garcia at OpenTech and she told me about her new blog Josetteorama. She asked me if I’d like to contribute a few articles about Perl to the site. I agreed and then promptly forgot about it for a couple of months. But I remembered my promise a week or…
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Moving Stuff Around
A few weeks ago I talked about a few domains that I was going to let lapse unless anyone wanted to do anything with them. No-one showed any interest so the domains will go away over the next few months. But in order to hang on to the content, I spend a couple of hours…