Earlier this year I met Josette Garcia at OpenTech and she told me about her new blog Josetteorama. She asked me if I’d like to contribute a few articles about Perl to the site. I agreed and then promptly forgot about it for a couple of months. But I remembered my promise a week or […]
Moving Stuff Around
A few weeks ago I talked about a few domains that I was going to let lapse unless anyone wanted to do anything with them. No-one showed any interest so the domains will go away over the next few months. But in order to hang on to the content, I spend a couple of hours […]
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Training in Riga
YAPC Europe is getting closer. We’ll all be heading off to Riga in about six weeks. As has become traditional, there are a number of training courses being held both before and after the conference. This includes my Introduction to Modern Perl course on Sunday 15th August. The course is a one-day overview of many […]
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Perl Versions
There has been a flurry of Perl 5 releases over the last few days and there’s some evidence that this has confused a few people. So let’s take a closer look at what is available. Perl 5.14.1 This is the most advanced stable version of Perl 5 currently available. It was released on 17th June. […]
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Doomed Domains
Summer is YAPC time. And YAPC means getting inspired on Perl-related projects. And that, obviously, means buying domain names for those projects. And that, inevitably, leads to lots of email from domain registries at about this time of year which roughly translate to “are you ever going to do anything useful with that domain you […]