So the time rolled around again and the now gaggle of Perlers in the North West of England did meet to consume beer and talk about things, oft Camel, somewhat Penguin (who was sadly absent) and mostly YNK and this time Doctor Who, System Admin tales of yore and many topics in-between of a geekish/nerdish/churlish [...]
Archive for July, 2009
North West England Perl Mongers July Social
Enlightened Perl Workshop at YAPC::EU
YAPC::EU::Lisbon If you are in Lisbon for the YAPC::EU and are still about on the Thursday then you can still sign up to the free Workshop featuring Enlightened Projects presented by the combined skills of Matt S. Trout, Ash Berlin and Jonathan Rockway. This is a totally free event and we will be attempting to [...]
Perl 5, TPF, EPO and Corehackers a-go-go
Jim Bandt of the Perl Foundation has announced on the Perl Foundation blog, Proposed Payments for Clearing Perl 5 Bugs, that they will be supporting Nick Clarke’s proposal, spending other people’s money, to award grant bounties for code/bug fixes in the Perl 5 Core . The Enlightened Perl Organisation became involved with this when we [...]
B-B-B-ouncing Beta
So they have in fact taken away the Beta, from all their “office” products… http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-apps-is-out-of-beta-yes-really.html No mention of my blog post on this, so there can be only one conclusion…they read my post and decided to get rid of the Beta. So, on that note… Why is it that Google don’t send me high tech [...]
G-G-G-Golly no Beta
So, in a surprise move, well to me, Google dropped the Beta from their Gmail. It only happened for me tonight – it was still in Beta this morning when I logged in, but I refreshed this evening and the Beta was gone. So I have to retract some of my earlier post, maybe they [...]
Holy B-B-B-Beta Batman
I had a conversation last week, and yet another in the same line, with someone over Google’s excessive stay-in-Beta policy. When I say excessive that is because they never seem to come out of it. The product we were discussing was Gmail that he, mistakenly, believed was out of Beta. He is not alone. Most [...]
Tech Meeting #3
North West England Perl Mongers Third Technical Meeting Manchester Evening News Offices 1st July 2009 The third technical meeting that was held last night at the MEN was to me a great experience and its success relied on the hard work of a few dedicated people. So I am going to start by listing them [...]
Frist Prost
So first posts are always problematic. How to grab your audience in the immediate without being controversial presents issues. Like all who blog the instant inclination is to illuminate in some manner, then maybe excite, energise, educate and enrich before collapsing from alliterative asphyxia. But this isn’t my first post ever…
