Category: Conferences

  • YAPC Europe 2015: A Community is a Home

    YAPC Europe 2015: A Community is a Home

    I’m in Granada, Spain for the 2015 “Yet Another Perl Conference” (YAPC). The three-day conference finished about an hour and a half ago and, rather than going to a bar with dozens of other attendees, I thought I would try to get my impressions down while it’s all still fresh in my mind. YAPC is…

  • LPW & Perl Web Book

    Return to the Kingdom of the Blind from Dave Cross Last Saturday was the London Perl Workshop. As always, it was a great day with a fabulous selection of talks. As always, I’m desperately waiting for the videos to appear so that I can see the talks that I was forced to miss because of…

  • 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…

  • YAPC Europe Approaches

    This time next week YAPC Europe will have started and many of us will be enjoying ourselves in Kiev. The organisers published the schedule over the weekend and it looks like it’s going to be a great conference. I spent some time trying to work out which talks I want to see and I’ve written…

  • Speaking at the LPW

    I gave three talks at the London Perl Workshop yesterday[1]. That wasn’t the original plan, but I kept coming up with talks that seemed to be good ideas. The last one was on 25 Years of Perl was a bit of a failure as I broke the second rule of presenting (always plug in your…