LPW Schedule

(You wait weeks for a blog post and then two come along practically together. But this is just another short one.) It’s the London Perl Workshop on Saturday. The schedule for the day was published some time ago and it’s as diverse and interesting as it always is. If you look closely at the schedule, each talk […]

London Perl Workshop

Today, the initial list of talks for this year’s London Perl Workshop was announced. Looks like I’ll be giving three talks of various lengths. And of various levels of seriousness. Introduction to OO Perl with Moose‎ (two hours) Twenty Five Years of Perl in Twenty Five (ish) Minutes (twenty minutes) Matt’s PSGI Archive (lightning talk) […]

A Brief History of the LPW

In his opening remarks on Saturday, Mark Keating suggested that we might be at the tenth London Perl Workshop. That seemed unlikely to me, so I’ve done a little research. And it seems that I was right. The first LPW was in 2004, which makes this year’s the eighth. In a way, I’m happy that […]

YAPC::Europe Report

It’s nearly three weeks since I got back from Riga. I should probably tell you a bit about what I did. I flew over on Saturday and on Sunday I gave my “Introduction to Modern Perl” talk. There were nine people on the course and they all seemed to find it useful. The conference itself […]