(You wait weeks for a blog post and then two come along practically together. But this is just another short one.) It’s the London Perl Workshop on Saturday. The schedule for the day was published some time ago and it’s as diverse and interesting as it always is. If you look closely at the schedule, each talk […]
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.
Blogging By Proxy
I’ve been too busy to write anything here for a while, but here’s the next best thing. A few months ago I gave a talk on Unicode Best Practices to the Perl team at Net-A-Porter. And now Adam Taylor has written up that talk on their new technical blog.
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25 Years of Perl
A few days ago, I mentioned that I’m giving a talk at the London Perl Workshop called Twenty Five Years of Perl in Twenty Five (ish) Minutes. I already have a good idea of how the talk will go. I’ve got a good structure to hang everything off. But I’m still working on the detail. I know I’m […]
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London Perl Workshop
Today, the initial list of talks for this year’s London Perl Workshop was announced. Looks like I’ll be giving three talks of various lengths. And of various levels of seriousness. Introduction to OO Perl with Moose (two hours) Twenty Five Years of Perl in Twenty Five (ish) Minutes (twenty minutes) Matt’s PSGI Archive (lightning talk) […]
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DBIC vs DBI
Three times in the last few months I’ve had the “DBIC or raw DBI” discussion. People have told me that they don’t use DBIC because raw DBI is better. And each time, the person promoting DBI in the discussion has used an argument that boils down to “DBIC is probably useful for people who don’t […]