I’ve spent a lot of the last seven days running training courses. It might be interesting to share some thoughts about how they went. Last Saturday was Perl School 4. A week before the course I was a little worried about ticket sales, but I did a bit of marketing early last week and managed […]
Perl Books
The Perl community on LinkedIn is fascinating. It’s a great way to see how Perl is perceived and used outside of the echo chamber. And that’s a real eye-opener. Here’s an example. Every few weeks (it seems) someone asks for advice on Perl books.At that point, a few people will jump in with sensible suggestions. […]
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Give Me MetaCPAN
Ever since MetaCPAN launched I’ve been getting increasingly irritated with people who still use links to search.cpan.org. Isn’t it obvious that MetaCPAN is better? Why do people still insist on sharing links to the older site? Of course they do it for various reasons. Perhaps they aren’t as in touch with the modern Perl world […]
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Upcoming Training
It’s a new year, so it’s probably a good time to remind you about some training sessions that I have coming up. Perl School 4 is on 9th February. The subject this time is Database Programming with Perl and DBIx::Class. As always, a full day of training costs just £30 and the class will be […]
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Perl School 3
Yesterday was the third Perl School. Twenty-one students converged on Google Campus in London and spend a day learning about Moose. The day seemed to go well. People asked intelligent questions and seemed to understand what I was telling them. Hopefully the feedback forms will tell a similar story. No more training now for a […]