London Perl Workshop Review

Larry Wall at the London Perl Workshop

(Photo by Mark Keating) Last Saturday was the annual London Perl Workshop. And, as always, it was a great opportunity to soak up the generosity, good humour and all-round-awesomeness of the European Perl community. I say “European” as the LPW doesn’t just get visitors from London or the UK. There are many people who attend […]

The Long Death of CGI.pm

CGI.pm has been removed from the core Perl distribution. From 5.22, it is no longer included in a standard Perl installation. There are good technical reasons for this. CGI is a dying technology. In 2015, there are far better ways to write web applications in Perl. We don’t want to be seen to encourage the […]

LPW Slides

A more detailed write-up of the LPW will follow in the next few days. But in the meantime, here are the slides to the three talks I gave. Modern Web Development with Perl from Dave Cross Conference Driven Publishing from Dave Cross Improving Dev Assistant from Dave Cross    

London Perl Workshop 2015

This time next week we will all be enjoying the London Perl Workshop. I thought it was worth looking at what the day has in store. As always (well, except that one time when they had no power) the LPW will take place at the Cavendish Campus of the University of Westminster. I’m told there […]

Training Courses – More Details

Last week I mentioned the public training courses that I’ll be running in London next February. A couple of people got in touch and asked if I had more details of the contents of the courses. That makes sense of course, I don’t expect people to pay £300 for a days training without knowing a […]