Posts Tagged ‘Shadowcat’

NWE.PM: The Shape of 2012

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

NWE Hakathon Moves Date

Hey all. For those of you planning to attend the NWE yearly Hackathon this weekend please note that we have had to have an emergency move of date to the 3rd December. Both Ian and I are truly sorry for doing this at the very last minute but it was completely unavoidable. Hopefully this means [...]

Hackability 3

NWE.pm[1] Hackday Part Trois[2] Once again, and for the third year running as the subtitle crudely suggests, the North West England Perl Mongers will be having a hackday to complete work on open source projects. The hackday is traditionally held at the Shadowcat Systems offices in Lancaster, though physical attendance is not absolutely required as [...]

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 [...]

Send-A-Newbie awardees

It gives me great pleasure to announce that this year the Enlightened Perl Organisation will be sending two people to the YAPC::EU::2011 in Riga, Latvia. The two awardees are: Moritz Onken and Manzur Mukhitdinov. The Send A Newbie initiative was started in 2009 by Edmund Von Der Burg and has been organised by the Enlightened [...]

Perl Oasis 2011 (Image Gallery)

The Perl Oasis 2011 proved to be, once again, a great way to start a Perl Year. I am currently sitting in the “Chill Out” room waiting for my shuttle to the airport on the last day, enjoying the random mix of conversations around me and getting inspired by the people and the atmosphere that [...]

NWE.pm End of Year Xmas party

On Thursday, 16th December, some of the members of the North West England Perl Mongers posse, those that could brave the weather, seasonal colds and shopping, met in Preston for the Christmas bash/yearly curry social. Once again the event was sponsored by Shadowcat Systems (because they love the local Perl community) and was organised by [...]

London Perl Workshop: Conference Round-up

The madness, joy, late nights and last minute panic of the London Perl Workshop is over again for another year and I thought I would take the time to do a quick report on the day as a whole. Hopefully I can cover the majority of the task we faced and some of the decisions [...]