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New Job – New Server

Sorry I’ve not posted for a while, been really busy at work (MEN) working on the new site, however next Friday is my last day here. I’m leaving for pastures new. I’m soon to be the new development manager for Set Fire Media.
I’ll be working mainly with RoR but still a bit of Perl – [...]

March 18, 2010   Comments Off

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 you cannot make it [...]

March 17, 2010   Comments Off

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.
This post [...]

March 9, 2010   Comments Off

Presenting Perl

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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 for talks and presentations on, [...]

March 1, 2010   Comments Off

A Mat to put Beer on (as opposed to the Matt you put beer in)

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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 and the [...]

February 24, 2010   Comments Off

Send-A-Newbie

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What is it? It’s it…
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 [...]

February 18, 2010   Comments Off

Is this the death of Perl?

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 [...]

February 10, 2010   Comments Off

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

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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 my readers (if [...]

February 10, 2010   Comments Off

The terrible things (2): More daisies for the chain

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This is the second 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 by example…
One of the points I made in my Daisy Chain article last week was the need to link to each other in [...]

February 3, 2010   Comments Off

The terrible things (1): A Giant Perl Daisy Chain

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This is the first 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.
Meanwhile…
While I was writing this article I was also checking the web and eagerly awaiting the keynote from Apple and their possible latest release, [...]

January 27, 2010   Comments Off