Perl Hacks: Just another Perl hacker’s blog
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More RPM Stuff
It’s been a while since I wrote anything here. if anyone is keeping score I’ve probably failed the Iron Man challenge of posting something every ten days. Don’t have much to add here either but I thought some of you might be interested in a quick tweak I made to my spreadsheet of CPAN RPMs…
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Training Update
The training courses for this summer’s YAPC in Pisa have been announced. And my course on Modern Perl has been chosen. It’s a one-day course on August 2th (just before the conference). It costs € 180. You’ll be able to book once the payments system on the conference web site goes live. Here’s the description…
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Perl Books
Those of you who have been following my work for some time might remember that many years ago I took some interest in Perl books. I don’t mean the kind of books that we all read (or, even write) with animals on the cover. I mean the kinds of terrible Perl books that at one…
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Training in Pisa
The YAPC::Europe organisers have put out a call for training courses. They want a number of courses to offer to attendees in the couple of days before the conference. The call closed yesterday and I expect they’ll be announcing the courses in a couple of weeks. I’ve given training courses at the last couple of…
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Crufty Old Perl
It’s eighteen months since I wrote “Why Corporates Hate Perl” and it’s worth pointing out that the company I discussed in that article which was dropping Perl in favour of PHP and Java is still employing as many good Perl programmers as it can find. I talked in that article about some rather unsubtle social…