Posts Tagged ‘nwe.pm’

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

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 [...]

New Year, New Tech Meets

North West England Perl Mongers: March Tech Meeting 2010 Event Location Event Sign-up Just a short post today to remind people who haven’t signed up who can make it that they have just 24hrs to sign up before we close the signing process in anticipation of Thursday night’s NWE.pm’s first tech meet of 2010. If [...]

Ironboy is coming soon

My Ironman Status For those of you who have been keeping up-to-date with things we are working on a new version of the Ironman feed which will be called all.things.per.ly and is currently being developed as Ironboy by the members of northwestengland.pm and their associated friends who hang out on irc.perl.org in the #northwestengland.pm. channel. [...]

The terrible things (3): Daisy, meet daisy, meet…

My Ironman Status This is the third article based upon my Keynote that I presented this year and is part of a series of articles on the Terrible Things We All Must Do. Lead but not always complete… Last week I said that I would continue to do these Daisy Chain articles eventhough most of [...]

Amongst the finest…

My Ironman Status Precis, damn you, precis Last week I spoke about the rather magnificent Dave Cross[1] and in the continuation of a theme[2] this week I am going to talk about some of the magnificent chaps and chapesses of North West England Perl Mongers and their associated brethren[3]. The Context It has been a [...]

…so few, done so much, for so many…

My Ironman Status Saturday 12th December was the North West England Perl Mongers 6th Technical meeting of the year and for this month we decided to have a happy Hackathon. So we gathered in the office of Shadowcat Systems who were sponsoring the event with snacks, pizza and beer (as well as a temperamental net [...]

Italian Perl Workshop & NWE.PM Webcast

North West England Perl Mongers broadcast to the web A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that the North West England Perl Mongers (nwe.pm) would be holding a night with the Catalyst authors and would be trying to broadcast this to the world. Well we will be doing just that. If you go to: http://per.ly/chat/ [...]

Question the Catalyst Book Authors

Welcome ye one and all to a chance in a lifetime, well an almost chance in a lifetime, especially if you do not know the authors of the Catalyst book, or have only heard about either them, the book, or Perl, or are just curious, or have been living in a tree somewhere, or chanced [...]

Tech Meeting #3

North West England Perl Mongers Third Technical Meeting Manchester Evening News Offices 1st July 2009 The third technical meeting that was held last night at the MEN was to me a great experience and its success relied on the hard work of a few dedicated people. So I am going to start by listing them [...]