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• Posted German Perl Workshop: My Day 3 to :m)

  Again a lovely bike ride to the venue, this time with some air pressure trouble in the front wheel. Then a great day with talks, chatting and again excellent food.

  And then it was already over.

  THANK YOU ORGANISERS!

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• Posted German Perl Workshop: My Day 2 to :m)

  Today I was quite busy $working. I was a bit tired, too, because a group of young and cheerful boys and girls (possible future Perl hackers?) had their small hotel party on the floor outside my room. After a short bicycle ride (numerous places of interest again) I reached the Betahaus (many…

• Posted German Perl Workshop: My Day 1 to :m)

  Yesterday evening I got onto the City Night Line and spent a most comfortable night in my small single…

• Commented on YANWT (Yet Another No-Warnings Tester)
  it is under "Manage" -> "Entries". Then click on the entry you would like to edit, save & done....
• Commented on Better late than never - Perl School is awesome!
  Thanks for the reminder; I had even forgotten that Perl Schools existed. :-S...
• Commented on About the Grants Committee
  I am afraid to say that I would have to change countries before requesting a grant.. And that is probably not going to happen. I live in a spot too expensive at the moment.....
• Commented on Sometimes a good talk is enough to motivate
  Thank you for sharing the link. Enjoyed the talk a lot. :m)...
• Commented on Swiss Perl Workshop has a Logo
  Hm, I am not sure.. But it's a pretty view, in any case! See you @spw1? :m)...
• Commented on Perl 10
  :m) likes "Black Perl"...
• Commented on Does Perl (5) have a future?
  I love Perl, too. And I can’t quite say why. It just fits my brain, I guess. I do not want to quit. I do think that I should try to improve the community in my area, that is why...
• Commented on New Classes premiering in Zurich next month
  I am so looking forward to the courses! :-)...
• Commented on Happy Birthday Perl
  Thanks for the explanation. :-) cool tricks!...
• Commented on Happy Birthday Perl
  Yes, really nice! can you please explain it? (I know, it is much asked to explain a gift, but I really don't get it..) :-)...
• Commented on Swiss Perl Workshop 2013
  @domm ;-) Yeah, we are quite excited & looking forward to it. At the moment we are talking to many people to find the best dates before Christmas 2013. Probably, as we are in Switzerland, we will need to run...
• Commented on YAPC::EU::2012, the good parts
  thx for the good parts :-)...
• Posted What I liked about YAPC::EU 2012 to :m)

  Disclaimer: This list is no ways complete. It does not mean that I didn't like what I forgot to mention. :-)

  The Streuselkuchen. The coffee. The snacks. The drinks. THE ICECREAMS.

  How the essential things worked like charm. The Germans are winners. :-) This is no news to the fans o…

• Commented on Lausanne seminar update
  I'll be there & looking forward to the demo of the regex debugger! (.. and the appropriate amount of fun, too, of course) :m)...
• Commented on The Conference T-Shirts
  I am so looking forward to my first YAPC :-)...
• Commented on When Perl is not applicable
  Perl is always applicable, unless when it is not. In which case TMTOWTDI. :-) I have read this post and the comments with some interest. And I have gotten some clues about what to do when I should have to...
• Commented on Teaching Perl with Comedy
  Please be careful when making fun of beginners' code or of modules you qualify as containing bad code. As for the idea in general: Comedy and learning go very well together. Examples, good or bad, often help. It's all about...
• Commented on How the YAPC::NA videos got on Youtube
  Thany you for doing this and leaving the valuable information here. One small suggestion: What about inserting the name of the speaker, the date of the recording and the yapc::na2012 logo at the beginning of the films?...
• Posted Thanks for the Live Streams from YAPC::NA to :m)

  I just wanted to say how grateful I am for the live streams broadcasting these days!
  This is definitely a very cool feature of the Perl community.

  (I also would like to enc…

• Commented on Live Stream URLs
  http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=142 for Madison local time, e.g....
• Commented on Getting around in Frankfurt
  There are :-) I just don't know which are recommendable. http://www.radfahren-ffm.de/104-0-Radroute-5-Bockenheim---Museumsufer.html The site is in German, but should be quite usable. Click on the links below "Alle Routen im Überblick" to see several routes....
• Commented on Getting around in Frankfurt
  I am going to bring my folding bike (http://brompton.co.uk/) as I find this a perfect way to explore a city. Are there cycle routes?...
• Commented on Why my()?
  It is not spam to me. I am looking forward to the live streaming of YAPC::NA....
• Commented on A little help in VIM...
  Thanks for the tip. Which color scheme do you use?...
• Commented on Perl documentation word clouds
  beautiful!...
• Commented on Should I buy that Perl book?
  Unless you live in a country where books are extremely more expensive than one hour of work, this question should be answered without much worry and in less than a few minutes. :-) Lastly I started to buy electronic books...
• Commented on Video Recordings for YAPC::Europe 2012
  Thanks for the link. I have just watched rjbs' talk on email. Audio quality is really good. I think - without wanting to say anything bad or picky - that video could be even cooler, perhaps with respect to the...

Comment Threads

• 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

• Ether commented on YANWT (Yet Another No-Warnings Tester)

  I've also added a few new feature branches -- see http://prepan.org/module/45h12sKczM and https://github.com/karenetheridge/Test-Warnings