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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Perl Rocks Latin America
A Perl Team wins a web app. competition There is often a description, a type, bandied at Perl that you cannot build an application in the language in a short period of time and so it isn’t suitable for the apparent ‘fast-paced’ and ‘flexible’ web development world. A group of Perl hackers in Brazil turned [...]
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 [...]
Google Code-in – Fit the Second
(Please note that the figures used in this article are from 18:00 UTC on Saturday 3rd December and they are pulled from a download of data of data from the Melange interface, the absolute accuracy is dependent on the people providing data (very good IME) but will, therefore, not reflect the exact situation at the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
San Francisco Perl Mongers
“If you’re going to San Francisco…” Make sure you tell the local Perl Mongers you’ll be there… Okay so not really fitting with the song, but almost. So Ingy, t0m, Rafl and I were all attending the Google Summer of Code Mentor’s meeting on the weekend of the 22nd-23rd October and while we were here [...]
YAPC::BRASIL::2011
This year’s YAPC::Brasil is being held in the magnificent city of Rio de Janeiro in the Centro de Convenções Flex Center from Friday 4th November to Sunday 6th November 2011. The schedule for Friday will feature a 1 day course by the guest speaker brian d foy who will be teaching “Effective Perl Programming”. The [...]
