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 […]

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 […]

Why Corporates Hate Perl

This is a reprint of an old blog post. A few years ago I was writing blog posts (semi-)regularly for O’Reilly. This is the one that probably got the most feedback. I’m reprinting it now because a) it’s pretty hard to find on the O’Reilly site and b) it’s relevant to a couple of conversations […]

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 […]

LPW Schedule

(You wait weeks for a blog post and then two come along practically together. But this is just another short one.) It’s the London Perl Workshop on Saturday. The schedule for the day was published some time ago and it’s as diverse and interesting as it always is. If you look closely at the schedule, each talk […]