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 [...]
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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
11 Nov 2011 at 13:27
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Ironman, London Perl Workshop, North West England Perl Mongers, 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 [...]
Terms of Search
a.k.a. I need your help 2 [1] I would like some help from the community, I want a list of terms, what would you search for if you were looking for things relating to Perl? What keywords or buzz words would you use? What terms, names or words would you expect to see in articles, [...]
Vive Les Mongueurs de Perl
Perl QA Hackathon 2012 Once again I have to thank the laws determining large numbers and the interaction of societies[1] for Les Mongueurs de Perl those wonderful French Perl Mongers. Once again they have taken up a baton that was in the way of being passed and will be hosting the QA Hackathon for 2012.[2] [...]
Do what thou wilt…
(Caution this post may contain personal opinion, emotional choice and some casually rambling rhetoric, a longer version can be found at http://www.markkeating.me.uk/2011/08/07/do-what-thou-wilt/) I was asked, online in Twitter(1) by a friend (@techpractical is their twitter ident) if I would support their efforts to form a LGBT.pm. @techpractical had decided that Perl needed a specific group [...]
GSoC – Next year’s flyer
The Perl Foundation Perl GSoC Before we begin I just wish to state that I haven’t gone insane I just have channeled the spirit of Baden Powell and am working in advance so that we can function efficiently later this year. So I am proud to present to you the current working copy of the [...]
