I wrote an article for Josette called “What is Modern Perl?” In it, I talk about the different things that people might mean when they talk about Modern Perl and why it’s well worth buying a copy of the new edition of the camel book. After a gap of twelve years, a new edition of […]
Introducing Perl School
Yesterday I talked briefly about the Modern Perl for Non-Perl Programmers course that I’ll be running at Google Campus in October. If you look at the URL for the course information you might see a hint of a wider branding strategy. I’m planning to run a series of these low cost, high attendance courses. And […]
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Modern Perl for Non-Perl Programmers (Redux)
Six weeks ago I announced that I’d be running a free one-day course called “Modern Perl for Non-Perl Programmers” in August. Places on that course were fully booked in less than a day. So I’ve decided to run to course again, two months later. It will still be at Google Campus, and the date is […]
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Perl Teach-In 2012
Back in 2007 the London Perl Mongers ran a free one-day Perl training course at the BBC’s offices in White City. That was five years ago, so for a couple of months I’ve been thinking that it was probably about time that we did another one. And then suddenly this afternoon a few loose ends […]
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How Well Can You Read Documentation?
(I was going to call this post “How well do you understand context?” but I think this title is more accurate). I just saw someone recommending this code:
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Looks sensible enough, doesn’t it? But it isn’t. What’s the hidden inefficiency?