Behind the scenes at Perl School Publishing

Designing a new publication pipeline

We’ve just published a new Perl School book: Design Patterns in Modern Perl by Mohammad Sajid Anwar. It’s been a while since we last released a new title, and in the meantime, the world of eBooks has moved on – Amazon don’t use .mobi any more, tools have changed, and my old “it mostly works […]

Bowing to the inevitable

Working on updates to "Data Munging with Perl"

Data Munging with Perl was published in February 2001. That was over 23 years ago. It’s even 10 years since Manning took the book out of print and the rights to the content reverted to me. Over that time, I’ve been to a lot of Perl conferences and met a lot of people who have […]

Selenium and Perl

Selenium and Perl

Some of you might remember the lightning talk I gave at the London Perl Workshop last year (it’s available on YouTube, I’ll wait if you want to watch it). In it, I said I planned to resurrect the Perl School brand, using it to publish Perl ebooks. One book, Perl Taster, was already available and […]

Regenerating Perl School

About five years ago I ran a few training courses under the Perl School brand. The idea was simple – if you price training courses cheaply and run them at the weekend then you eliminate the most common reasons why people don’t keep their Perl knowledge up to date. Of course, it’s not quite that […]

Penetration Testing with Perl

I was sent a review copy of Penetration Testing with Perl by Douglas Berdeaux. I really didn’t like it. Here’s the review I’ve been sharing on Amazon and Goodreads. I’ve been wanting to learn a bit about Penetration Testing for a while and as Perl is my programming language of choice this seemed like a […]