Because Perl definitely isn’t dead.

Just a quick one to welcome mdk to per.ly and shout about the NWE.pm meet that we hosted at work. Anyway it was great and Mark has posted a full write-up.
I promise to post something more fulfilling soon, honest.

The next Northwest England Perl Mongers meet is going to be a technical meet on 1st July. Everyone attending is invited to deliver a lightning talk relating to anything you think we’ll be interested in. Lightning talks should be about 5 minutes long.
We will be meeting at MEN Media’s headquarters on Deansgate in Manchester but [...]

So it appears there are some drawbacks in Wordpress Mu. Mainly that there is a complete lack of a decent content aggregation plugin for it. Well that’s no problem, I’ll just write one…. wait just one minute. Perhaps the reason that their isn’t one already is because Mu is basically a giant hack!
There is an [...]

Recently I was reading an article from the good folks at Perl Training Australia about the 5.10 Smart Match functionality. I was particularly interested in the fact that they referred to the speed of the Smart Match being “extremely fast”, so I decided to hack together a quick script to see what potential speed gains [...]

I completely forgot to blog about the Northwest PM meet last week. Perhaps the Perl scene in Manchester isn’t as lacking as we initially thought. Although there were only a few of us actually from Manchester.
Three interesting talks were given:

Object oriented database design in PostgreSQL (Matt S Trout)
Converting 16k user mailboxes from MBOX [...]

One of the fine gentlemen I work with recently blogged about how he started out with Perl and it got me thinking about why Perl currently seems to be failing to drive the interest it so rightfully deserves.
Perhaps by thinking about how developers select a language we are more likely to understand why Perl doesn’t [...]

Test::Aggregate is a simple, yet fantastic module that allows, you guessed it, tests to be aggregated. This turns out to be a true god send when testing large Catalyst apps.
Previously in order to run all the tests against an app I would generally have ran a stand alone server in one terminal, and then ran [...]

Saw a message on the Catalyst mailing list about catalyzed.org, a new blog aimed at helping the public image of modern Perl. In their first post/article they happened to mention Matt’s Script Archive. So I thought I’d take a look at the old favorite.
Even back in it’s early days I thought the code that was [...]

Welcome to graeme.per.ly, the replacement for alola.org. All the content from alola.org, has been imported here. The idea is that we should hopefully be able to get a couple of Perl or other Dev related blogs going on here and have them on xxx.per.ly etc.
http://per.ly/ will be an aggregate of these blogs, and perhaps some [...]

This is something that rears it’s ugly head from time to time, the need to create stand alone scripts that I can give to a none programmer to run on a Windows box. The last time I played with this, it was to create a version of the get_iplayer script for my dad to run. [...]