Almost every day on the Perl groups on LinkedIn (or Facebook, or StackOverflow, or somewhere like that) I see a question that includes the restriction “I do not want to use any modules”. There was one on LinkedIn yesterday. He wanted to create a MIME message to pass to sendmail, but he didn’t want to install […]
Author: Dave Cross
Dave Cross runs Magnum Solutions Ltd., a London Perl consultancy.
In 1998 he started London Perl Mongers, the first Perl Mongers group outside of Northern America.
He is the author of Data Munging with Perl and a co-author of Perl Template Toolkit.
Perl Usage
In my last blog post, I posted a graph showing that out of 135 companies at a recent Silicon MilkRoundabout recruitment event, only one said that they were using Perl. That has led to some interesting discussions that I’d like to address here. I should make it clear that I wasn’t presenting my graph as […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]