brian_d_foy's Journalbrian_d_foy's use Perl Journal"Intermediate Perl" at Portuguese Perl Workshop- May 20, 2008 The Portuguese Perl Workshop is quickly approaching. The workshop itself is June 6-7, but I'm also giving Stonehenge's "Intermediate Perl" master class on June 4-5. The master class format is a two-day, low-cost format that allows the trainer to attend the the conference. For the Portuguese Perl Workshop, the two day class includes the workshop registration fee and costs &8364;200. Students get a special price of &8364;100. You can register for the class at the same time you register for the...http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/36473?from=rss Why People Are Passionate About Perl- May 8, 2008 The Portugeuse Perl Workshop is less than a month away, and I'm giving a keynote about "Why People Are Passionate About Perl" on June 4. So, why are you passionate about PerlI've been thinking about this quite a bit since we selected the topic. I can only really talk about why I am passionate about Perl. I want to talk more about that in the keynote. Post your story somewhere. If you don't think I'll find it, send me a link. I'll google the title "Why People Are Passionate About Perl" though...http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/36356?from=rss Visiting Bruxelles.pm- May 8, 2008 I'm spending May in Lille, France, so on May 13, I'm going to visit Bruxelles.pm just up the road. It's a quick train trip. I'll be at the Greenwich Caf&233; around 18:00 if anyone wants to meet earlier. I have to catch the last train back to Lille at 21:00, so don't come late!I thought about visiting London.pm tonight, which is also not that far by train. Eurostar wants $800 per person for the trip, so I guess that is right out. Even booking two weeks in advance they want a lot more than I'm...http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/36355?from=rss Pre-order Learning Perl, Fifth Edition- May 1, 2008 Our latest update to Learning Perl is now available for pre-order on O'Reilly and Amazon. It should be here before OSCON 2008, but I don't know how soon before OSCON that is.In the new edition, we've updated the text for Perl 5.10. The 5.10 features we cover are:using say()defined-or operatornamed captures in regular expressionssmart matchingstacked file test operatorsstate variablesgiven-whenAlong with that, we've updated the text for the latest Perl history and happenings, and made modules a..http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/36303?from=rss |