FOSDEM

This weekend is the annual FOSDEM conference in Brussels. I really enjoy FOSDEM but, for reasons I don’t really understand, this will be the first time I’ve been since 2005. It will also be one of the rare occasions where I attend a conference without giving a talk – the organisers turned down my proposed […]

Market Research

I hope no-one minds if I use this post to do a quick bit of market research. I’m planning to run some more public Perl training courses in April. Until now when I’ve run these courses, they have been pretty generic beginners, intermediate and advanced courses. But now I’m thinking that it might be interesting […]

Important SpamAssassin Update

Do you run SpamAssassin to remove spam from your mailbox? Have you noticed a fall in the amount of mail you’ve received in the last couple of days? I mean all mail, not just spam. You might well be falling foul of this problem. The rules in the latest version of SpamAssassin available from CPAN […]

The “Without Whom”s

In The “M” Word, I listed many of the things that have happened in the Perl marketing world over the last year. I wanted to end the year by mentioning a few people without whom this project would not have got off the ground at all. Curtis “Ovid” Poe started writing about Perl’s image issues […]