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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.
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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 for talks and presentations on, [...]

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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 and the [...]

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What is it? It’s it…
The Send a Newbie program is designed to introduce new people to YAPC’s by collecting sponsorship from supporting companies. It was successfully run by Edmund von der Burg last year, but due to other circumstances Edmund has decided to pass the reins on this year and asked the Enlightened [...]

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This is the third article based upon my Keynote that I presented this year and is part of a series of articles on the Terrible Things We All Must Do.
Lead but not always complete…
Last week I said that I would continue to do these Daisy Chain articles eventhough most of my readers (if [...]

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This is the second article based upon my Keynote that I presented this year and is part of a series of articles on the Terrible Things We All Must Do.
Lead by example…
One of the points I made in my Daisy Chain article last week was the need to link to each other in [...]

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This is the first article based upon my Keynote that I presented this year and is part of a series of articles on the Terrible Things We All Must Do.
Meanwhile…
While I was writing this article I was also checking the web and eagerly awaiting the keynote from Apple and their possible latest release, [...]

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Fun – fun – fun in the sun – sun – sun
Last Saturday was the Perl Oasis conference in Orlando Florida arranged, orchestrated and conducted by the Orlando Perl Mongers in the fleshy guise of Chris and Jamie (notice how those two names could be used by either of them?).

The Organisers looking busy
The [...]

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A superband that will not split….
SO it is just a few short days, nerve-bitingly it is less than 3 days, to the wonderful Perl Oasis held in the – hopefully – sunny city of Orlando in Florida. I am biting my nails because I rather foolishly jumped into the fray and declared, “yes, [...]

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Precis, damn you, precis
Last week I spoke about the rather magnificent Dave Cross[1] and in the continuation of a theme[2] this week I am going to talk about some of the magnificent chaps and chapesses of North West England Perl Mongers and their associated brethren[3].
The Context
It has been a year since Ian Norton [...]