A per.ly perl weblog by Mark Keating

The current state of play YAPC::EU::2010::Pisa is just a week or so away and I thought it would be time to talk about the send-a-newbie initiative once again. (If you are unfamiliar with send-a-newbie visit the website at send-a-newbie.enlightenedperl.org) As I spoke about previously this initiative was organised last year by Edmund von der Burg [...]

I read with interest Jochen Hayek’s blog post (http://blog-en.jochen.hayek.name/2010/06/old-python-anti-perl-propaganda.html) on Propaganda Posters used against Perl and then Python. I then followed the links to the original argument (which I recommend you follow) which is on Paul Battley’s Blog (original anti-Perl piece here). The posters in both of these cases were produced some time ago. The [...]

My Ironman Status would appear here if the badge code wasn’t b0rked with the new system If you have had any interaction with the folks at the TPF I think you will already know that they are quite super people. So why am I saying that the TPF are great in this blog. Well…. It [...]

My Ironman Status would appear here if the badge code wasn’t b0rked with the new system So it has been a month since I last posted (I took a long break to rest from blogging, just was feeling a bit blogged out, but now I am back ). You may have already gathered, if you [...]

My Ironman Status I was reading the Planet Perl Ironman feed this morning and came across Karen Pauley’s article on Ada Lovelace Day: Jacinta Robinson (read this article about Jacinta here and about Ada Lovelace Day here). I was inspired to write a few words about a person who inspires me a lot, and she [...]

My Ironman Status This week I was going to talk a bit more about branding since I am at Disney in Florida with my (Disney-obsessed) wife again…but instead I thought I’d wade an oar (love those mixed-metaphors) into something else… I had to respond as well… Groditi made an interesting post in response to SawyerX [...]

North West England Perl Mongers: March Tech Meeting 2010 Event Location Event Sign-up Just a short post today to remind people who haven’t signed up who can make it that they have just 24hrs to sign up before we close the signing process in anticipation of Thursday night’s NWE.pm’s first tech meet of 2010. If [...]

My Ironman Status For those of you who have been keeping up-to-date with things we are working on a new version of the Ironman feed which will be called all.things.per.ly and is currently being developed as Ironboy by the members of northwestengland.pm and their associated friends who hang out on irc.perl.org in the #northwestengland.pm. channel. [...]

My Ironman Status Presenting Perl Website Today, 1st March (though this post was written late on the 28th February), Shadowcat Systems, in the guise of Matt S. trout and Mark Keating are launching a new community resource site called Presenting Perl. So what is it? Well basically… The presenting Perl website is a resource location [...]

My Ironman Status Having a certain swagger… By now I hope most of you have been following Gabor Szabo‘s and Renée Bäcker’s efforts to get Perl promoted at non-Perl conferences (see events on the TPF wiki here) and like me are in support. Their efforts are supported by The Perl Foundation, the YAPC Europe Foundation [...]