Perl Hacks

Month: July 2014

  • Programming Language Usage

    Back in May, I spent an afternoon at Silicon MilkRoundabout. Silicon MilkRoundabout is a recruitment fair for techies. It’s specifically aimed at people who want to work for start-ups around the Old Street area (although they aren’t particularly stringent about sticking to that – for example, the BBC were there). We were given a booklet…

  • Github, Travis-CI and Perl

    Last night we held a London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting. It was organised by Sue Spence and the venue was sponsored by Rick Deller of Eligo. Much fun was had and much knowledge was imparted. Alex Balhatchet spoke about Test::Kit. Andrew Solomon talked about training people in Perl. Thomas Klausner introduced OX and AngularJS. And…

  • London Perl Workshop

    The London Perl Workshop 2014 has been announced. It will be at the University of Westminster (the usual location) on Saturday 8th November. That’s a few weeks earlier in the year than it usually is. The theme for this year is “The Internet of Things”. You can find out more about the workshop, register and…

  • London Perl Mongers Meeting

    I thought you might be interested in a couple of events that the London Perl Mongers have coming up in the next couple of months. Technical Meeting 24th July 2014, Conway Hall Currently, four talks have been announced. Thomas Klausner (domm) from Vienna.pm is going to talk about OX & AngularJS  Alex Balhatchet is going…

  • Perl School Slides

    In 2012 and 2013 I ran an experiment called Perl School. I ran cheap Perl training on a Saturday at Google Campus. I got some great reactions but I stopped it after almost a year because it wasn’t getting the traction that I hoped for and attendances were starting to drop. That’s not the end…