If you haven’t heard already allow me to share with you the fact that the Enlightened Perl Organisation website has had a redesign. The site had a previous design from circa July 2008 which was done at the time as a JFDI placeholder look while awaiting a new design, unfortunately that weekend effort lasted for [...]
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EPO Site Redesign
30 Dec 2011 at 12:22
mdk
Enlightened Perl Organisation, Google Code-in, The Perl Foundation, Uncategorized
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 [...]
EPO sponsors Perl QA
For the second Year running the Enlightened Perl Organisation is proud to be counted among the sponsors for the (Perl) Quality Assurance Hackathon. The membership have voted to sponsor the event with 1,000 Euros to help with the operating costs as seen appropriate by the organisers. The QA Hackathon is a free of charge coding [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
London Perl Workshop 2011: Sponsors
This is the fourth year that I have dived head first into organising the London Perl Workshop (The UK’s Perl Workshop) and the first in which I am writing this type of post before the official launch of the site. Why is that i hear you call… It is because I love our sponsors.[1] A [...]
Dynamic Languages Conference
Introduction Marco Fontani and I decided last year that what Scotland needed was a conference to call its own that would be organised by a Perl person[1]. This decision was made over a jar or two of a comfortable real pop in a local Edinburgh hostelry. Marco, who is the leader of Glasgow.pm and a [...]
We Need Quality Conferences Without High Cost
There is a tradition in conferences, that is prevalent to all manner of business or event, and that tradition is that the larger the event with more sponsors, and potentially more speakers, the higher the cost to the attendee. It has always stunned me that the cost of some of these events, which don’t seem [...]
Student and Mentor sign-ups for GSOC
If you wish to sign up to the Google Summer of Code, on behalf of The Perl Foundation, as either a mentor or a student you can do so now simply go to: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/tpf. The process from there is very simple. 1. Click the “Register” button if you are a student, or the “register as [...]
