Damian Conway

• Website: damian.conway.org
• About: I blog about Perl.

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• Posted New Classes premiering in Zurich next month to Damian Conway

  I'm delighted to announce that, once again, I'll be teaching in Zurich...next month. My good friends at Oetiker+Partner and the amazing team at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ("ETHZ" to its friends) have organized

• Commented on Speaking at QCon London next month
  @dolmen: Thanks for pointing that out. I've now updated it for my entire European trip....
• Commented on Speaking at QCon London next month
  @Jerome: @Nick nailed it. This is an enterprise conference, which means that employers are almost always picking up the tab. And the prices for this conference are actually fairly modest (for that universe). In particular, the cost to attend just...
• Posted Speaking at QCon London next month to Damian Conway

  I've been invited to speak at QCon London next month. I'll be giving two keynotes: my infamous Fun With Dead Languages talk plus a one-hour…

• Posted Unexpectedly Nordic to Damian Conway

  So, in addition to Lausanne, Aarhus, and London, I am now also going to be visiting Stockholm in the next month.

  Just two week…

• Posted Lausanne seminar update to Damian Conway

  Last week I foreshadowed that we would be offering a free evening seminar when I'm in Lausanne next month.

  The arrangements for that talk are now finalized. My thanks to ="http://www.linux-gull.ch/…

• Posted Back in London to Damian Conway

  Life can be strange. Not counting endless transits through Heathrow (presumably some horrid form of karmic justice for a particular wicked former life), I have visited London only twice in the past decade. And offered not a single public class there in all that time.

  Yet now I'm lining up…

• Posted Lausanne classes to Damian Conway

  I've been visiting that lovely city for several years now for private classes, but for the first time we have been able to arrange some public training events as well.

  We'll be offering the following…

• Posted Quantum-Relativistic Time-Travel in Lisbon to Damian Conway

  My brief visit to Portugal just expanded a little.

  In addition to the two public classes we’re running (and, yes, there are still a few seats left for either day), I’m now also going to be delivering my infamous ="htt…

• Posted Post-mortem Linguistics in Zurich to Damian Conway

  For reasons I don’t entirely understand, it’s been quite a few years that on this visit.

  Digicomp run a regular seminar series entitled ="http://www.d…

• Posted And now Lisbon too... to Damian Conway

  So, apart from London, Oslo, and Zurich, I’m delighted to say that I’m tour…on May 3rd and 4th.

  We’ll definitely be offering a public talk one evening for the local Open Source community (IR…

• Posted Returning to Zurich to Damian Conway

  I have been most fortunate to have been able to visit Zurich every year since 2008, to teach classes at the ETH.

  Zurich is one of my favorite cities in the world: there’s something undefinably “civilized” about it. It’s ele…

• Posted Why I love my job to Damian Conway

  When I was just starting out in my career a very wise person told me:

  “The day you find a job you love, is the last day you’ll ever have to work.”

  For me, that day was the day I discovered public speaking.

  And for the past deca…

• Posted Quaquaversally in Oslo to Damian Conway

  be giving a seminar for Oslo.pm next month: "Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Spacetimes...Made Easy!…

• Posted Oslo rocks Open Source!!! to Damian Conway

  sheer beauty of the place, the truly civilized society, and the delicious ="http…

• Commented on Public classes in Australia
  Erm...is that: "A prophet in his own country makes no profit in his own country"???...
• Commented on Public classes in Australia
  I'd be delighted to come to either city, if I could find a paying gig. Feel free to email me directly if you have any ideas about that. ;-)...
• Posted Public classes in Australia to Damian Conway

  For reasons I don't fully understand, I don't get the chance to give classes very often in my own country. And even less often do I get to give public classes. I'd certainly like to do so more frequently, but the opportunities just don't seem to arise.

  So it's an unusual pleasure …

• Posted Learn some Perl (or Vim or presenting) in lovely Zurich to Damian Conway

  I love Zurich. It's such a beautiful, well-organized, and just plain civilized city.
  in Europe in only 2 or 3 hours.

  That's why, for the past few years, I've been running public classes in
  Perl, Vim…

• Posted My European speaking schedule to Damian Conway

  I will be arriving in Europe this week-end, at the start of a whirlwind visit to Portugal, Norway, Latvia, and Switzerland. In three of those four countries I will be giving a free talk, which I'd like to invite you to attend if you happen to be in the right place at the right time.

  In Lis…

• Posted Damianically Possessed: Returning to Portugal to Damian Conway

  In my spare week before YAPC::EU, I am making a return visit to one of my favourite cities in Europe: to Lisbon.

  José Castro is a good friend. As soon as he heard I had a some extra time this year, he wrote and invited me to come and visit Lisbon.pm. And…

• Posted Damianically Possessed: Visiting Oslo to Damian Conway

  My profound thanks to everyone who invited me to visit them during my spare week in Europe. After much discussion and contemplation I have accepted two invitations for the week. The first of them is to visit Oslo.pm

  Salve Nilsen wrote to me as soon as I announced I was available, and remin…

• Posted A week of Damianic possession to Damian Conway

  The process of organizing my summer speaking tours is often NP-complete, with too many possible events competing to fit into too few available timeslots.

  So it's a refreshing change, this year, to find myself wit…

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• Aristotle commented on Public classes in Australia

  :-)

  That is less biblical than what I meant… but it works too.