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August 19 2008
Last week I was in Copenhagen for YAPC::Europe. One of the announcements at the conference was the location of next year's conference which will be in Lisbon. The theme of next year's conference will be "Corporate Perl". And that (along with a... read moreJune 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 moreMay 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 moreMarch 19 2007
Looking at this page I’d guess that Forbes use Perl to generate their news pages. read moreFebruary 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 moreFebruary 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 moreNovember 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 moreSeptember 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 moreSeptember 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 moreSeptember 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 moreRecent Posts | All Posts
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