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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Perl 5’
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Act of Organisation(1)
If you have been at a Perl conference in Europe or North America in the past few years, and more specifically if you have been an organiser of a Perl conference then you will have an Act login and will have encountered this system. What is Act? Well its creators describe Act as “Act (A [...]
YAPC::EU::2011::Riga
La-La-Latvia For those who weren’t aware (perhaps they were living in a cave or relying on certain websites to update their conference details) this year’s YAPC::EU will be held in the historic Eastern European city of Riga in Latvia, August 15th-17th. Our hosts will be the highly respected wunderkinds of Moscow.pm and the excellent DeepText [...]
Cry Havoc and let slip the ‘Raptors*
If you have been following the thread about a logo for Perl5, you may have come across the post by Kraih (http://blog.kraih.com/a-logo-for-perl-5) (Kraih is Sebastian Riedel, original author of Catalyst, Mojolicious and sri on irc) which described how he was enthused to create a logo for Perl5 (after a conversation we both had), something we [...]
Perl Briefing Papers
Introduction Those of you who watch the Enlightened Perl Organisation’s site, or perhaps follow the channels #epo or #epo-ironman on irc.perl.org (and if you have been paying attention to rantings in this blog), you will know that we are attempting to push/promote/market our language a little more/better. One of the ways in which this will [...]
Evolution of the Velociraptor
Synopsis There is a bit of confusion circling the wires as to where and when the need to refer to Perl 5 as a “Raptor” or more correctly a “Velociraptor” originated. Also people wish to know: Why name it? Why use this? Whose idea was this? This article will attempt to relieve you from the [...]
Oasis Perl Workshop
My Ironman Status Fun – fun – fun in the sun – sun – sun Last Saturday was the Perl Oasis conference in Orlando Florida arranged, orchestrated and conducted by the Orlando Perl Mongers in the fleshy guise of Chris and Jamie (notice how those two names could be used by either of them?). The [...]
Perl Oasis is coming…
My Ironman Status This week I am blogging from a line at Paris, Disney. Actually right now I am back in my room and typing this to you but I was in a line when I made notes about this. Why am I in Paris and why Disney? Well the Paris is easy, it is [...]
