Sometimes it’s good to just take a new idea and hack on it for a couple of hours to see what happens. That’s what I’ve done this evening. I’ve been using Songkick for a while. Songkick is a web site that tracks users’ attendance at gigs. I’ve been tracking the gigs I’ve been going to […]
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.
Learning About Traits
I’ve been teaching basic Moose in my training courses for several years now. And, as I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been slowly converting some of my CPAN modules to use Moose. But there are still bits of Moose that I haven’t really needed to get to grips with. One such area is Moose’s support for Traits. […]
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Perl Vogue
I’m at YAPC::EU in Pisa, so I’m too busy having fun to write a long blog post about my new project – Perl Vogue. But I thought you might be interested in the lightning talk that I used to announce it yesterday. Perl Vogue from Dave Cross More detail when I get back from Italy […]
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Modern Perl at OpenTech
I mentioned a few months ago that I’d be running an “Introduction to Modern Perl” training course at YAPC::Europe this year. But in the interests of speaking outside of the Perl community as much as possible, I’m also going to be giving a slightly different version of that course at the OpenTech conference in London in September. […]
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YAPC::Europe Talks Accepted
The YAPC::Europe organisers said that they would tell speakers which talks had been accepted on July 1st. Well, it seems that the excitement was too much for them and they decided to do it a week earlier. Yesterday I got email telling me that some of my talks had been accepted and the list of […]