Perl - The language of the future.

For those of you who have been keeping up-to-date with things are working on a new version of the feed which will be called all.things.per.ly and is currently being developed as Ironboy by the members of and their associated friends who hang out on irc.perl.org in the #northwestengland.pm. channel. This post is just to let you know that we have finally worked through a lot of the issues were having with feed subscriptions (language issues) and working to weed out spam signups as well as developing code for the which is replacing[...]

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. Well basically... The presenting Perl website is a resource location for talks and presentations on, or about, the Perl language. The site will initially have videos from conferences and workshops but it is our aim to provide a single location for all Perl audio/visual resources and material. Coming soon will be the ability for[...]

By now I hope most of you have been following 's and Renée Bäcker's efforts to get Perl promoted at non-Perl conferences () and like me are in support. Their efforts are supported by , the and the all of whom have helped by supplying funds/items to give away at the booth/event. So the EPO have produced a set of Beer Mats as promotional items. About 1,000 of these mats will be sent to the conference to be given away (), but there are another 2,000 of these items available and if you have an event, know of an event, where technic[...]

So I've spent some time researching how to implement rejection of spam at different scores based on the recipients of a given message.

We didn't like options A or B and option C isn't sensible in this day and age.

Option D. For a given message, reject at the highest score for the given list of recipients. If a@example.com has a reject of 18, and b@example.com has a reject of 25 then a message sent to both will have a reject of 25. This isn't ideal and it certainly doesn't provide th[...]

The Send a Newbie program is designed to introduce new people to YAPC's by collecting sponsorship from supporting companies. It was successfully run by Edmund von der Burg last year, but due to other circumstances Edmund has decided to pass the reins on this year and asked the Enlightened Perl Organisation to pick them up. The website is now up at (also) and there is already a button on the front page if you feel magnaminous and want to make a donation. All contributions will be published on a donations page (though the option to [...]

Sensationalist title I know but I work, at least for the minute, for a newspaper company that's just been bought out. Now I'm fairly sure that our new corporate overlords will have no requirement for two web development departments. Meaning at least one of us is for the chop and they are the larger company buying the smaller one, so centralising to their own resources seems likely to be the way they'll go. We have a strong development team here, with a great work ethic, who all love working with modern () Perl. However onl[...]

This is the third article based upon my that I presented this year and is part of a series of articles on the Terrible Things We All Must Do. Last week I said that I would continue to do these Daisy Chain articles eventhough most of my readers (if you are out there) will no doubt grab the same posts I do the idea is to make links for people who do not find this through the Ironman source and associated areas, who perhaps follow me on Twitter/Facebook. But I did fail, almost epically, to get a second post up about a different matter[...]

This is the second article based upon my that I presented this year and is part of a series of articles on the Terrible Things We All Must Do. One of the points I made in my Daisy Chain article last week was the need to link to each other in our blogs and social media locales. So I have resolved myself to lead by example and to try and do that as much as I can. To this end I will be attempting to blog to Ironman twice a week from now on (when necessary) so that I can link to and discuss other peoples blogs and the groovy things I r[...]

This is the first article based upon my that I presented this year and is part of a series of articles on the Terrible Things We All Must Do. While I was writing this article I was also checking the web and eagerly awaiting the keynote from Apple and their possible latest release, I know I am such a fracking fanboi or something, or maybe I just like cool devices, slinky sci-fi-esque toys - look I am a child of the 70s, this is all futuristic to me man. Also, Bubble Wrap is 50 years old today, so much fun from something so simple as[...]

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 Organisers looking busy The conference is a relatively small affair attracting a core group of presenters and attendees numbering approximately 30 people, and one might think that this lessens the importance in the face of larger workshops and the continental YAPCs, but I say 'nay' a[...]