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An evening of dynamic languages

2009-06-01T07:03:46Z

[Note: I'm looking for non-Perl lightning talks for the following event. Please contact me: acme@astray.com] London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on...

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Gallifrey.pm

2009-05-18T12:45:12Z

Way back in 2001, London.pm organised a series of tshirts. As Dave Cross explained: They all have a large "Programming Republic of London" logo on the back and one of a series of small "fictional" PM group logos on the front. I'm currently wearin...

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Travelling to YAPC::Europe 2009

2009-05-13T12:25:45Z

YAPC::Europe 2009 will be held in Lisbon from the 3rd to the 5th August. I will be presenting a new talk entitled Fewer cables. As Leader of London.pm, I will be travelling on Sun 2nd August at 18:15 on TAP Portugal 357 from Heathrow to Lisbon, st...

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What files does your Perl load?

2009-05-06T15:01:01Z

It can interesting to see what files your Perl loads. One way to do this is to use the Linux::Inotify2 module which uses inotify to monitor file changes. Something like: #!/home/acme/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Linux::Inotify2; use Fil...

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Google Summer of Code 2009

2009-04-23T15:44:03Z

For the past few years, Google has been organising the summer student hackfest that is the Google Summer of Code. The Perl Foundation has nine projects this year, but every year I dig through and get some statistics and read through every project ...

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London.pm technical meeting 16th April 2009

2009-04-22T08:37:00Z

Last Thursday we held another London Perl Mongers technical meeting. The theme was "Less code" and I started by showing off Elevated, a 4KB graphics intro by rgba which recently won first place at Breakpoint 2009. Yes, 4KB, including the music. It...

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Perl 5.005_05 RC2

2009-02-27T16:27:09Z

Hi there porters, Perl 5.005 is a great version of Perl and still used by many people. There have been a few distribution updates and tool changes which mean that it no longer compiles cleanly everywhere, so I believe it's time for another ma...

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What is Moose and why is it the future?

2009-02-26T17:16:33Z

Last week London.pm organised a technical meetings themed along the question "What is Moose and why is it the future?". I was in Taipei on the day but Peter Edwards took charge and the speakers Ash Berlin, Tomas Doran, Mike Whitaker and Piers Cawl...

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Perl 5.005_05 RC1

2009-02-17T04:00:25Z

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London.pm technical meeting about "What is Moose and why is it the future?" on 19th Feb 2009

2009-01-27T15:17:37Z

London Perl Mongers organises technical meetings every two months. The technical meetings are a chance to find out what has been going on in the Perl community, what techniques people are using and how Perl integrates with other software. The nex...

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