In my last blog post, I posted a graph showing that out of 135 companies at a recent Silicon MilkRoundabout recruitment event, only one said that they were using Perl. That has led to some interesting discussions that I’d like to address here. I should make it clear that I wasn’t presenting my graph as […]
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Training in London
For many years now a regular feature of my training calendar has been the annual public courses that I have run in London in conjunction with FlossUK. Normally these happen in February, but this year I had to postpone them as I was in the USA for a lot of February. But FlossUK still wanted […]
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Dots and Perl
I was running a training course this week, and a conversation I had with the class reminded me that I have been planning to write this article for many months. There are a number of operators in Perl that are made up of nothing but dots. How many of them can you name? There are […]
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Perl APIs
For a lot of programmers out there, Perl has become largely invisible. They just never come across it. That might seem strange to you as you sit inside the Perl community echo chamber reading the Perl Ironman or p5p, but try this simple experiment. Think of a web site that you use and that supplies […]
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Perl in Banks
An email has flooded in: I came across your presentation ‘Perl in the Enterprise’ and happen to have a burning concern closely related to one of the bullets ‘Banks see <Perl> as a competitive advantage’. I am consulting at a major bank in South Africa, and our team have been using Perl very productively to […]