Perl Hacks: Just another Perl hacker’s blog
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The Definitive Guide to Catalyst
I’ve just published my review of “The Definitive Guide to Catalyst“. I thought it was worth quoting the final paragraph here: The application development methods discussed by the authors of this book are the ones which will define good Perl development practice in the coming years. If you have any interest in how you should…
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Greenwich Mean Time
Some of you might already know that I run the nms project. We supply drop in replacements for the CGI programs from Matt’s Script Archive in an attempt to raise the average quality of Perl on the web. Having my email address associated with a project like that brings me some… er… interesting mail. Here’s…
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Perl Twitter Feed
Last August, when I was writing my talk Proud to Use Perl for YAPC::Europe, I wanted to get a feel for what real people were actually saying about Perl. It’s all very well claiming that people say Perl is dead, but I wanted to get some real quotations to use in the talk. I came…
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Moose or No Moose
I’ve known about Moose for some time.The first time I talked about it in a training course was at the Teach-In back in the summer of 2007. It’s been part of my training courses ever since. But even though I was telling people about Moose in my training courses, I wasn’t really making use of…
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YAPC::Europe 2009
Today I travelled home from YAPC::Europe 2009 which was held in Lisbon. Readers of my other blog will know that I almost didn’t get there at all. The return journey was far less stressful. On the weekend before the conference I gave a two-day “Introduction to Perl” course. We had six people on the course.…