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 four days of Perl and presentation skills training, to be held on March 18-21 (just before SPW1).
I love teaching in Zurich. I enjoy the city itself, of course, but the real attractions are the remarkable people who come along to the classes there.…
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 mini-tutorial entitled Instantly Better Presentations. I'll also be offering the full one-day version of that…
So, in addition to Lausanne, Aarhus, and London, I am now also going to be visiting Stockholm in the next month.
Just two weeks ago, Claes Jakobsson and the wonderful folks at Init AB got in touch and invited me to come and speak at the Nordic Perl Workshop on Sunday October 14, and then to run two public Perl training classes on the following Monday and Tuesday.
I am extremely excit…
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 GULL for providing the venue, and especially to my good friend Frédéric Schütz for arranging everything.
You can get the full details of the event in the official announcement, but briefly:
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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 for my second London visit, and second series of public classes, in six months. And the first person I have to thank for that is the same person who took care of me in London on my very first visit, over ten years ago now: the inimitable Dave Cross. It was Dave who …
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