Archive for the ‘Workshop’ Category

Working on the Workshop

It is that time of year again when the London Perl Workshop, the United Kingdom Perl Workshop, is just a few days away and all that my mind can focus on is the event and whether I can pull off a success once again. Well, I say ‘I’ in a rather immodest fashion. It is [...]

The Dao of Presenting

Have you ever presented anything, or are you ever going to present anything? From giving a keynote in front of a ten thousand strong audience to a short five minute business presentation to office peers? Do you wish you had the skills to give the very best presentation you could? Do you wish there was [...]

London Perl Workshop: The Videos

Once again I ended my year by editing and uploading the videos from a London Perl Workshop and the videos are live on Presenting Perl. And as last year the curse of doing this is following me around. There was a big glitch in grammar for which I alone must take blame, but I am [...]

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 [...]

São Paulo Perl Workshop 2011

The São Paulo Perl Worshop (http://www.perlworkshop.com.br/) starts tomorrow (7th May)  in Brazil. This year the local São Paulo Perl Mongers can count amongst their guests, Larry Wall, Brad Fitzpatrick and Brian D. Foy (Brian and Brad have never been to Brazil before). The workshop has reached a pivotal moment in Brazilian Perl Workshop history as [...]