Over on LinkedIn, someone asked me “What core PERL[sic] features do you use regularly that are new since 95?” It’s hard to be sure as the perldelta files only seem to go back to 1997 (for example, when were qw(…), q(…) and qq(…) added?), but here’s a quick list off the top of my head. […]
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Training Cancelled
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I had two days of public training coming up in Manchester in April. I’ve just heard that the organisers have decided to cancel this training as they have had no bookings for the classes. I’m sorry if anyone was planning to book closer to the date and has […]
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Training Debrief
I’ve spent a lot of the last seven days running training courses. It might be interesting to share some thoughts about how they went. Last Saturday was Perl School 4. A week before the course I was a little worried about ticket sales, but I did a bit of marketing early last week and managed […]
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Perl Books
The Perl community on LinkedIn is fascinating. It’s a great way to see how Perl is perceived and used outside of the echo chamber. And that’s a real eye-opener. Here’s an example. Every few weeks (it seems) someone asks for advice on Perl books.At that point, a few people will jump in with sensible suggestions. […]
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Why Corporates Hate Perl
This is a reprint of an old blog post. A few years ago I was writing blog posts (semi-)regularly for O’Reilly. This is the one that probably got the most feedback. I’m reprinting it now because a) it’s pretty hard to find on the O’Reilly site and b) it’s relevant to a couple of conversations […]