Google Reader just showed me Mithaldu’s blog post about the falling level of Google searches for the term “perl tutorial“. The fall is, of course, more than a little worrying and we should do what we can to get more people searching for Perl. But I wondered what results Google is currently returning for this […]
Perl Search Engine
Often on sites like StackOverflow you’ll see questions that people could have answered for themselves if they had just searched the right web sites (usually perldoc or CPAN). But instead, they just went straight for Google and ended up with some dodgy, out of date information that just left them confused. In order to get […]
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Modern Perl in Linux Format
A couple of times, I’ve complained here about the standard of Perl articles in the British magazine Linux Format. Following the second of those articles I got into a discussion with Graham Morrison, the editor of the magazine and he offered me the opportunity to improve matters by writing my own short series of tutorials […]
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YAPC::Europe Report
It’s nearly three weeks since I got back from Riga. I should probably tell you a bit about what I did. I flew over on Saturday and on Sunday I gave my “Introduction to Modern Perl” talk. There were nine people on the course and they all seemed to find it useful. The conference itself […]
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Modern Core Perl at the LPW
This year’s London Perl Workshop will be on November 12th. We’ve just tied down the details of the free training course that I’ll be running on the day. It will be called “Modern Core Perl” and will be a two-hour discussion of how the Perl core has changed since Perl 5.10. More details nearer the […]