Month: February 2013
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Texinfo 5.0 in Perl
There was a story on Slashdot on Sunday saying that the new version of Texinfo had replaced the old, C, implementation of makeinfo with one written in Perl. I thought it would be interesting to look at the Perl they’ve written. This is, after all, a reasonably large example of Perl code that will be…
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Training Cancelled
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I had two days of public training coming up in Manchester in April. I’ve just heard that the organisers have decided to cancel this training as they have had no bookings for the classes. I’m sorry if anyone was planning to book closer to the date and has…
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Training Debrief
I’ve spent a lot of the last seven days running training courses. It might be interesting to share some thoughts about how they went. Last Saturday was Perl School 4. A week before the course I was a little worried about ticket sales, but I did a bit of marketing early last week and managed…
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Perl Books
The Perl community on LinkedIn is fascinating. It’s a great way to see how Perl is perceived and used outside of the echo chamber. And that’s a real eye-opener. Here’s an example. Every few weeks (it seems) someone asks for advice on Perl books.At that point, a few people will jump in with sensible suggestions.…