Author: Dave Cross
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Training in London
For many years now a regular feature of my training calendar has been the annual public courses that I have run in London in conjunction with FlossUK. Normally these happen in February, but this year I had to postpone them as I was in the USA for a lot of February. But FlossUK still wanted…
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Data Munging with Perl
Many years ago, I wrote a book called Data Munging with Perl. People were kind enough to say nice things about it. A few people bought copies. I made a bit of money. Recently I re-read it. I thought that some of it was still pretty good. There were some bits, particularly in the early…
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Installing Modules
If you’ve seen me giving my “Kingdom of the Blind” lightning talk this year, then you’ll know that I’ve been hanging around places like the LinkedIn Perl groups and StackOverflow trying to help people get the most out of Perl. It can be an “interesting” experience. One of the most frequent questions I see is…
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The Return of blogs.perl.org
About an hour ago we turned blogs.perl.org back on. There’s also a blog post where we explain what happened in a lot more detail. If you have an account on the site then you will have received an email explaining what you need to do now. Basically, we’ve invalidated all of the passwords so you’ll…
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blogs.perl.org
It seems that last night blogs.perl.org was hacked. I first became aware of it when someone pointed me at this story a few hours ago. As you’ll see, the contents of the mt_author table have been made public. We’re still investigating the extent of the hack. But, as a precaution, we have configured the site…