After a break of five years, the London Perl Workshop returns next weekend. It’s been twenty years since the first one. This year’s event is at a new venue called The Trampery, which is very close to Old Street tube station. If you’re a veteran of the early-2000s “Silicon Roundabout” excitement, you’ll know the place […]
Category: Conferences
The Perl and Raku Conference, Toronto 2023
It’s been over twenty years since I spoke at a conference in North America. That was at OSCON in San Diego. I’ve actually never spoken at a YAPC, TPC or TPRC in North America. I have the standard European concern about being seen to encourage the USA’s bad behaviour by actually visiting it, so when […]
PerlCon Europe 2019
Last week I was in Riga for this year’s European PerlCon (the conference formerly known as YAPC::Europe). As has become traditional, here’s my report of the conference. My conference began on Tuesday night at the pre-conference meet-up. Most people get into town on the night before the conference starts and the organisers always designate a […]
Perl Conference in Riga
It’s only two weeks until I head to Riga for PerlCon 2019. I thought it was worthwhile posting a quick update confirming that I was going and telling you what I would be doing there. Firstly, I’ve previously mentioned that I was planning to run my “Modern Web Development with Dancer” workshop on the day […]
Plans for Riga
The European Perl Conference this year is going to be held in Riga in August. That might seem a long way away, but it’s never too early to start thinking about these things. For example the conference web site went live earlier this week, enabling users to register for the conference and buy their tickets. […]