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 [...]
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London Perl Workshop: Conference Round-up
13 Dec 2010 at 21:27
mdk
Ironman, London Perl Workshop, North West England Perl Mongers, Perl, Shadowcat
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 [...]
London Perl Workshop: the Sponsors
Each year that I organise the London Perl Workshop I am astonished by the encouragement and support I obtain from the Sponsors of the event. This year there were even more sponsors who came forward willing and keen to become involved. So with no further pause allow me to introduce you to these great people. [...]
Presenting Perl
My Ironman Status Presenting Perl Website Today, 1st March (though this post was written late on the 28th February), Shadowcat Systems, in the guise of Matt S. trout and Mark Keating are launching a new community resource site called Presenting Perl. So what is it? Well basically… The presenting Perl website is a resource location [...]
A Mat to put Beer on (as opposed to the Matt you put beer in)
My Ironman Status Having a certain swagger… By now I hope most of you have been following Gabor Szabo‘s and Renée Bäcker’s efforts to get Perl promoted at non-Perl conferences (see events on the TPF wiki here) and like me are in support. Their efforts are supported by The Perl Foundation, the YAPC Europe Foundation [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
…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 [...]
