Perl Hacks

Category: Miscellaneous

  • The Best of Perl Hacks

    The Best of Perl Hacks

    What do you do when you’re stuck inside because Coronavirus means that your country is in lockdown? Well, you write a book, of course. Or, to be more accurate, you cobble together fifty or so old blog posts into a book. So that’s what I’ve done. Now you can read some of your favourite Perl…

  • Several Small Bits of News

    A few little bits and pieces, none of which justify a blog post to themselves. blogs.perl.org Some of you will have seen that Evozon’s grant to replace blogs.perl.org was cancelled a couple of months ago. This made me sad as I (along with the rest of the blogs.perl.org team) really want to see the current,…

  • Dancing in Cluj-Napoca

    Dancing in Cluj-Napoca

    Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been running a poll to decide which training course to run at YAPC Europe in August. Thank you you the people who voted in the poll. I’ve just closed the poll and the results are pretty clear. In Cluj-Napoca I’ll be running a course on Modern Web Development…

  • Why Learn Perl?

    A couple of months ago I mentioned some public training courses that I’ll be running in London next month. The courses are being organised by FlossUK and since the courses have been announced the FlossUK crew have been running a marketing campaign to ensure that as many people as possible know about the courses. As…

  • Culling My Modules

    Culling My Modules

    About a year ago, I dabbled briefly with Travis CI. I even gave a talk about my experiences. The plan was that I would start to use it for all of my code. But real life intervened and I never got round to getting any further with that project. This weekend, I finally made some…