Been a while since I’ve had time to post anything here, but I’ve just got time for three quick announcements. 1/ Last week I ran some public training courses. I’ve just put the slides online. 2/ There’s a London.pm technical meeting in two weeks time. It’s at Net-A-Porter (above the Westfield shopping centre) on October […]
Context
This generated a lot of discussion in a training course that I ran this week so I thought it was worth sharing more widely. I think you can say that you understand the concept of context in Perl if you know what these four statements will print and (more importantly) can explain why they don’t […]
Modern Perl Web Development
Modern Web Development with Perl from Dave Cross Last Saturday was the annual London Perl Workshop. I’ll have more to say about the day later[1], but I just wanted to take the time to share the slides for the workshop that I ran in the morning. It was a quick guide to modern Perl web […]
Evolving Software with Moose
Evolving Software with Moose from Dave Cross Last night I was speaking at the Milton Keynes Perl Mongers technical meeting. I gave a new talk about how Moose (and, in particular, Moose traits) make Perlanet easier to maintain and enhance. The slides are available on Slideshare.
WordPress
This blog has, until now, run on Movable Type. I initially chose Movable Type when I set up my first self-hosted blog back in 2002. Back then Movable Type was the only real choice in this area and it had the bonus that it was written in Perl so I could hack on it if […]