Erik Colson

• Website: www.ecocode.net
• About: Financial use of Perl, Emacs and Objective-C

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• Commented on Better late than never - Perl School is awesome!
  Sounds amazing stuff. Are these recorded and distributed ?...
• Posted Sometimes a good talk is enough to motivate to Erik Colson

  I've been reading a lot about Perl 5, 6, 7, 2013 etc. I felt, well, like if Perl is going bad... Then I watched this talk today:

  The Perl Renaissance

  Congrats to @pjf for this amazing talk! Wow…

• Commented on Perl 7
  Why not leave the '20' out of '2013' and make it Perl 13 etc ?...
• Posted About the 'Mastering Advanced Git' video series of McCullough and Berglund to Erik Colson

  This review is the conclusion of 2 rewrites. Today I'm still uncertain
  

  Definitely, the video series is a course. And it does hook up onto the
  "Mastering Git" video series from the same authors. Content is rich,
  very rich. Most of d…

• Commented on How Perl Documentation Could Look Like
  hi you mentioned generating a PDF (or other ebook format). I've looked @ the site but didn't find a link to such a doc. Is this something planned ? -- erik...
• Posted Perl at Fosdem 2012 to Erik Colson

  Hi,

  Next Sunday (5 february), Fosdem 2012 is hosting our Perl booth and Perl devroom. We welcome a bunch of impressive speakers. The schedule is published here.

  If you are coming to Fosdem but did not select talks fro…

• Posted FOSDEM 2012 - Brussels to Erik Colson

  Hello,

  Fosdem 2012 will take place on 4 and 5 February.
  You'll find our call for speakers here: Fosdem 2012 call for speakers

  Hope to meet you there !

  --
  erik

• Posted Belgian Perl Workshop 2011 - Thank you all to Erik Colson

  So we had the Belgian Perl Workshop 2011 last Saturday.

  I wish to thank all participants for the conviviality of the event. We had a bunch of interesting interactive talks, which where well prepared by the speakers.

  Including the gurus who shared their knowledge, the audience was p…

• Commented on Belgian Perl Workshop 2011
  Well this is really odd ! It works for me on Safari and Firefox 3.6.19. Anyone can confirm or explain this ?...
• Commented on Belgian Perl Workshop 2011
  Yes we know... No excuse for us...
• Commented on Belgian Perl Workshop 2011
  please tell me which link you used. I tested both links I mentioned without getting 404......
• Posted Belgian Perl Workshop 2011 to Erik Colson

  Hello fellow perl programmers!

  Please note that the Belgian Perl Workshop 2011 will take place at "The Hub" in Brussels (http://brussels.the-hub.net/public/) on Saturday 15 October.

  We are quite late on schedule. So please register …

• Commented on MovableType is the Ugly Duckling of CMS'
  and which CMS can be considered not 'ugly' ?...
• Commented on review: O'Reilly video "McCullough and Berglund on Mastering Git"
  Mike, I didn't mention this in the review, but the 'students' in the video also have a SVN background....
• Posted review: O'Reilly video "McCullough and Berglund on Mastering Git" to Erik Colson

  This is the first O'Reilly video I downloaded. Technically this course noise nor bad images. O'Reilly did a great job at mixing the video with full-screen laptop screen and the room.

  By downloading the course you'll get mor…

• Posted Finance::QuoteDB 0.15 released to Erik Colson

  Please note that I have released Finance::QuoteDB 0.15 to CPAN.

  Finance::QuoteDB is meant as a fullblown database application for
  maintaining stock data. It allows anyone to easily create and update a
  stock database. The information is gathered by using Finance::Quote
  and…

• Posted Emacs frames are no more evil ! to Erik Colson

  I'm an Emacs user for years now. I never used frames because "frames are evil".
  

  Framemove is easy to install. Get it from the emacswiki site and add following lines in .emacs :

  (require 'framemove)
  (framemove-default-keybindings)

  …

• Commented on DateTime and Excel difference
  wow, didn't know that... my immediate reaction : why the hell copy a bug while they could as well put the correction in the import and export procedures ?...
• Posted DateTime and Excel difference to Erik Colson

  Seems that DateTime module thinks 29.2.1900 didn't exist while Excel 2008 does. Which one is correct ? Well DateTime is OpenSource while Excel is payware. Think payware would be correct ? nope, DateTime is !

  So the correct DateTime object for dates starting 1.3.1900 when using values from …

• Posted Carbon Emacs and Samba shares to Erik Colson

  Lastly I tried to access files on a Samba share (running on a Debian machine) from Carbon Emacs running on Snow Leopard. The files where in a git-repo, so vc-git tried to do his stuff. This made Carbon Emacs hang while creating .#file.pm linked files. flymake had the same issue.…

• Posted Template Toolkit and Emacs to Erik Colson

  I am messing around with Template::Toolkit. Found the Emacs mode for template toolkit written by Dave Cross : https://github.com/davorg/tt-mode

  Put the file tt-mode.el somewhere in your Emacs path and add these lines to your .emacs config file:

  ;; tt-mode
  (lo…

• Posted New blog to Erik Colson

  Hello,

  Once in a while I have something to tell about Perl and me. I used my very own server for years and sometimes I even used use.perl. Since the shutdown of the blogging interface at use.perl it seems that most bloggers moved to blogs.perl.

  So this is my turn to move ;)

Comment Threads

• Matt S Trout (mst) commented on Perl 7

  As an alternative idea - how about we pick a name rather than getting even further into the numbers game?

  See my blog post on the subject for my suggestion as to what to pick.

  -- mst, out

• Alex Balhatchet commented on Better late than never - Perl School is awesome!

  No problem, glad to remind you :-)

• Alex Balhatchet commented on Better late than never - Perl School is awesome!

  They are not recorded, but if you attend one then you get a password which gives you access to the slides. And I'll let you in on a little secret - that same password gives you access to the slides of the other courses as well ;-)

  If you're outside of London and are not inclined to journey into our fair city, then it's also worth noting that Dave Cross runs Magnum Solutions (http://mag-sol.com/) which is available for all kinds of consultancy and training, and I believe he's willing to go to your work wherever it is and train your developers for you if your company is willing to pay …

• Dave Cross commented on Better late than never - Perl School is awesome!

  @Alex: Thanks for the blog post. Glad that you enjoyed it so much.

  @Erik: Perl School is really cheap, so I don't have the money to do clever stuff like recording them. It's possible that something like that might happen in the future though.

• mascip commented on Better late than never - Perl School is awesome!

  I found the class really excellent and would recommend it to anybody wanting to start using DBIx::Class, or to improve their use of it.

  If you manipulate databases or plan to, and don't know what DBIx::Class is, then you should definitely go.

  Thank you Dave