Perl Teach-In

June 03 2007

Yesterday was the Perl Teach-In at the BBC. People have been saying for months (years probably) that Perl is dying. If that’s true, then I’d like to know why the fifty places on the course were fully booked in less than two days and why another forty people signed up… read more

Free Perl Training in London

May 03 2007

Senior perl programmers seem to be in short supply in London. They may well be in short supply in other places too as far as I know, but it’s London-based recruitment agents that are calling me every couple of days asking for help and advice. A couple of months ago, Simon… read more

Perl in the News

March 19 2007

Looking at this page I’d guess that Forbes use Perl to generate their news pages. read more

Perl Jobs

February 20 2007

Competition in the marketplace is a good thing right? So now we have both jobs.perl.org and jobs.perl.com. I’m about to start looking for a new Perl job - so let’s see which one of them is most useful. Currently the perl.com seems a bit light on jobs in the UK, but I’m… read more

Perl Jobs

February 16 2007

Competition in the marketplace is a good thing right? So now we have both jobs.perl.org and jobs.perl.com. I’m about to start looking for a new Perl job - so let’s see which one of them is most useful. Currently the perl.com seems a bit light on jobs in the UK, but I’m… read more

London Perl Workshop 2006

November 09 2006

The London Perl Workshop 2006 has just been announced. It will be on Saturday December 9th at Westminster University. The announcement also contains details of how to submit talks for the workshop. The LPW is (like all of the other local Perl workshops) a grass-roots, one day, free Perl conference. The… read more

YAPC::EU 2006 - Day 3

September 08 2006

This year’s YAPC::Europe conference was held in Birmingham. In this post I look at the third and final day of the conference. Another early start of course, and I could definitely see a dilemma in the eyes of some attendees. On one hand the previous night’s conference dinner and the subsequent… read more

YAPC::EU 2006 - Day 2

September 06 2006

This year’s YAPC::Europe conference was held in Birmingham. In this post I look at the second day of the conference and that evening’s conference dinner. Days start early at YAPCs. They start particularly early if you’ve woken up with a few last-minute ideas for changes to a presentation you’re giving that… read more

YAPC::EU 2006 - Day 1

September 05 2006

Last week I was at the annual YAPC::Europe conference which was held this year in Birmingham. It had been a few years since I’d been to a YAPC, but this one was so much fun that I’m kicking myself for missing the last two. In this report, I talk about… read more