This year the North West England Perl Mongers will once again ‘mix it up’ and attempt to find a comfortable balance for our rather widespread and diverse group. We have decided to have a regular location and format to the meetings in order to bring some stability and try to grow the membership. So for [...]
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Hack-at-it
06 Dec 2011 at 15:43
mdk
Hackathon, North West England Perl Mongers, Perl, Perl Mongers, Uncategorized
North West England Hackday 3 Saturday 3rd December was the North West England annual hackday held at the Shadowcat offices in Lancaster once again (for those of you who didn’t know – or just guess – we have been the proud hosts of all three hackdays thus far). This year the plan was to hack [...]
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
11 Nov 2011 at 13:27
mdk
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 [...]
Hackability 3
NWE.pm[1] Hackday Part Trois[2] Once again, and for the third year running as the subtitle crudely suggests, the North West England Perl Mongers will be having a hackday to complete work on open source projects. The hackday is traditionally held at the Shadowcat Systems offices in Lancaster, though physical attendance is not absolutely required as [...]
A dozen nerpies and a 3D printer(1)
I am writing this post as I sit in the Yorkshire House (and then later as I edit and add to it at home) in Lancaster after just attending the North West England Perl Mongers meeting in which two wonderful makers(2) demonstrated their 3D printer at the Shadowcat offices. The two people in question are [...]
NWE.pm End of Year Xmas party
On Thursday, 16th December, some of the members of the North West England Perl Mongers posse, those that could brave the weather, seasonal colds and shopping, met in Preston for the Christmas bash/yearly curry social. Once again the event was sponsored by Shadowcat Systems (because they love the local Perl community) and was organised by [...]
London Perl Workshop: Conference Round-up
13 Dec 2010 at 21:27
mdk
Ironman, London Perl Workshop, North West England Perl Mongers, Perl, Shadowcat
The madness, joy, late nights and last minute panic of the London Perl Workshop is over again for another year and I thought I would take the time to do a quick report on the day as a whole. Hopefully I can cover the majority of the task we faced and some of the decisions [...]
Why Aim So Low
My Ironman Status The Hackday Proposals This year for the North West England Perl Mongers Hackday (Hackday Proposals) we decided to choose a new project to work on. Last year we worked on the EPO’s Ironman codebase as covered in this excellent article by Ian Norton, this year we decided to vote on which project [...]
NWE.pm This year’s Hack Day
07 Sep 2010 at 10:52
mdk
Enlightened Perl, Ironman, North West England Perl Mongers, Perl, Shadowcat
It’s that time of year, That’s something’s in the air, Like a load of geeks, With some very curly hair, Write another load Of code to give away, That celebrate-ate-ates, All the fun they had today… The North West England Perl Mongers (http://www.northwestengland.pm.org) will be having another hackday this year in the jolly month of [...]
