…so few, done so much, for so many…

Saturday 12th December was the North West England Perl Mongers 6th Technical meeting of the year and for this month we decided to have a happy Hackathon. So we gathered in the office of Shadowcat Systems who were sponsoring the event with snacks, pizza and beer (as well as a temperamental net connection from a crappy ISP).

[The collection of snacks]

Our goal was to make decent inroads into a new archive for the ironman challenge in Perl that will become a much grander project as time goes on. To do this we would be taking ther current Plagger install and bolting on a new system using Dave Cross’ Perlanet as detailed by the great man himself here (Dave Cross’ Blog post on NWE.PM’s efforts).

[Everyone is hard at it]

The day was extremely succesful. Not only did we get eight people in the office, but a further three joined us online for the event (though IDN was working on the bug-tracker software for Perl 5 core). We hope to have the archive out for general viewing very soon and will be under the rather nifty address of all.things.per.ly – so stay tuned for more information.

[Recursive Photo taking - ahh infinity loop]

[NWE.PM co-leader IDN hacks at it]

[Pizza time - YAY!]

So to all those who turned up on the day, worked hard, continue to work hard and have made the last twelve months, and our inaugural year a great sucess I say thank-you. I hope to see you all in the new year and look forward to drinking, coding and socialising with you.

-ttfn – Mark