Because Perl definitely isn't dead.

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 [...]

My Ironman Status 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

My Ironman Status 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 [...]

My Ironman Status 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 [...]

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 [...]

My Ironman Status A superband that will not split…. SO it is just a few short days, nerve-bitingly it is less than 3 days, to the wonderful Perl Oasis held in the – hopefully – sunny city of Orlando in Florida. I am biting my nails because I rather foolishly jumped into the fray and [...]

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 [...]

My Ironman Status A very modest[1] man in need of praise Last week the very well-known and indominable force of nature that is Dave Cross was kind enough to mention Matt and I in a list of people in his article The Without Whoms, who had done good work in 2009 for the Perl community. [...]