Archive for November, 2011

Google Code-in – Fit the First

Yesterday, Monday 21st November, saw the official start at 08:00 UTC of the Google Code-in Student participation. What this meant was that students could sign up to the program and start taking tasks from that point. I thought I would take this opportunity to bring you all up to date on how the efforts are [...]

MetaCPAN Logo Competition

The Enlightened Perl Organisation was approached recently by Florian Ragwitz (rafl) to sponsor a competition aimed at creating a logo for MetaCPAN. Rafl’s proposal (which can be viewed here), is to hold the competition so that the winner would make his artwork available in the first part to MetaCPAN to use while retaining moral copyright [...]

NWE Hakathon Moves Date

Hey all. For those of you planning to attend the NWE yearly Hackathon this weekend please note that we have had to have an emergency move of date to the 3rd December. Both Ian and I are truly sorry for doing this at the very last minute but it was completely unavoidable. Hopefully this means [...]

London Perl Workshop 2011

Reflection, part two In my first post on Friday I reflected on the fact that this year’s London Perl Workshop was the fourth event that I had organised, in this post I want to talk about this year after the event and some elements around it. If you build it… In preparing for this year’s [...]

London Perl Workshop

Reflection, part one So I am speeding through the misty, and drizzly, English countryside aboard a Virgin Pendilino train heading towards London and my fourth stint as the organiser of the London Perl Workshop (The United Kingdom Perl Workshop). It has been an interesting four years doing this gig, when I started it was just [...]

Linter in Test::WWW::Mechanize

Duke Leto (Jonathon Leto of Parrot, Perl 6 and Perl 5 CPAN fame) who I recently caught up with in San Francisco at the Google Summer of Code Mentor’s meeting, has added a new, and as he would no doubt state it ‘small’, feature to the latest release of Test::WWW::Mechanize (version 1.38). You can now [...]