Because Perl definitely isn't dead.

Apologies all for the flakiness of the site recently. The new server seemed to be  having a few issues! I’ve tracked it down (I think) to the google analytics WordPress plugin I was  using. I’ve removed it for the time being, and now hopefully all manner of things shall be well.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to Mark, soon to be blogging on per.ly. Mark currently works primarily in PHP, but is slowly learning to love the Perl. Hopefully he’ll get to converting his site to Catalyst soon! On another note, thanks to everyone who showed up for the NWE.pm tech meet last night. I thougt it went well.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]