Of course, we would like to hold a workshop in 2023 and want to take this moment to solicit feedback on the previous (2019) one and suggestions for next year. The main questions are thus:
If you have any thoughts on any of the above please let us know. You can leave feedback here in the comments, on reddit, or email us: organisers@londonperlworkshop.org. We would like to start planning next year's event early. Get in touch.
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As well as getting the talk videos live and actioning your feedback (please fill in your survey, it really helps!) we want to say a massive thank you to everyone who made the day such a success. The attendees, the speakers, the venue and our sponsors - without any one of you it wouldn't have been the same, and in particular we'd like to thank our Platinum Sponsor Booking.com for their support.
Booking.com is a large Perl shop with some of the greatest developers and as a company they sponsor almost all Perl events around the globe to support the Perl community.
]]> They are looking for top talent, to join the international and dynamic Booking.com team in our Headquarters in Amsterdam.If you are great Perl programmer, or willing to learn Perl, and would you like to be challenged, they offer an extensive relocation package, they take care of your visa and book the trip for you (and for your spouse, if applicable).
For more information go to http://bit.ly/BookingDevPerl
]]>Eligo are a niche boutique recruitment consultancy with a team of dedicated Perl Consultants. We live and breathe our markets. In fact we like to think we are as passionate about the sector as those who work within it. If you want proof of it stop by and meet Rick Deller one of our Senior Perl Consultants at LPW today.
]]> Because we understand the market shifts, history and challenges, we are able to provide honest and accurate insight into the market in terms of new entrants to the market, company growth, new products, opportunities, candidate availability, salary surveys, industry standards, competitor information etc. We are able to find you the right person and/or job whether you are looking for-Permanent, Temporary and Fixed Term Contracts.We specialise in and have experience in recruiting Perl Specialists across a wide range of sectors, roles typically include: Junior Developers; Senior Developers; Lead Developers; DevOps; Development Managers; Head of IT.
Whether you are looking for a role or a candidate in the UK, Europe or US, we can help. Please come to see us at the workshop or get in touch before on 020 8944 4187, Rick@eligo.co.uk, on Twitter via @PerlRick, Eligo technical. Connect with Rick on LinkedIn.
]]>The first few rounds will be courtesy of our fantastic sponsors, so today we'd like to thank Pirum for coming on board this year as a gold sponsor!
Pirum is a small dynamic FinTech company established in 2000, which provides Software-as-a-service the top-tier financial institutions in Securities Lending throughout the world.
As with everything else, this wouldn't be possible without our sponsors and so we'd like to thank Perl Careers, a long time supporter of LPW for their gold sponsorship.
Perl Careers and it’s buddy CareersJS are a technical focused recruitment consultancy, run by a CPAN & npm contributor with a recruitment background, rather than by a non-technical person. I can understand the skills you're looking to hire for, make sense of your GitHub profile, and offer specific Perl-related career and salary advice. I am very picky about only recruiting for companies I'd want to work at, and placing candidates who I'd want to work with. I'd love to talk to you if you think you might be either.
]]> If you're a candidate and you'd like a second pair of eyes on your CV or résumé, want a confidential run-down on a company you're thinking of applying for (whether or not we work with them), want some recommendations on what employers are looking for, or want to know if you're being paid properly, I'd be happy to have an informal chat.If you're a hiring manager and you'd like some advice on your job ads, some thoughts on free and paid channels for advertising for candidates, guidance on market salaries, or if you're non-technical and just need some help fleshing out what your actual requirements are, I'd be happy to have a commitment free chat.
Most of the candidates I place weren't actively looking for roles, and weren't available to traditional recruiters. Many of the most rewarding companies to work for aren't actively looking to hire, but if a recruiter who understands the candidate's strengths and the company's needs puts them together, they'll find a place. You can email me at: pete@perl.careers
]]>First released in 1997, cPanel & WHM is the leading web hosting control panel globally, and is preferred by most hosting service providers. Its users in an ever-growing user base prefer its familiar, feature-full, and simple interface. This interface can be used to build, manage and update a company's their entire online presence, from websites to email addresses.
]]> While highly technical features like its robust APIs and EasyApache make managing your infrastructure simple, features like the Website Builder and WordPress manager make it easy to for even technical novices to build and manage stunning websites.This Linux-based software allows you to take control of your website files, databases, web directories, and email accounts as well as set up domains in one single interface. Even website owners can handle this software without fuss.
]]>We'd like to thank our sponsors who make it possible for the event to be free to attend, and repeat sponsors such as CV-Library are awesome as they mean we can make the event even better, year on year.
Founded in 2000 and written in Perl since the beginning, CV-Library is the UK's leading independent job board with over 4.3 million unique visitors a month.
CV-Library is proud to be a long time sponsor of LPW and supporter of the Perl community, hosting London.pm technical meetings and contributing code back to CPAN (check our out CPAN and GitHub accounts).
Adestra
Here at Adestra we empower our clients to maximize marketing ROI through email-driven technology. Our flexible account structure, obsession with customer success, and award-winning service have gained the trust of global and growing brands alike. We’re proud to say we treat our people well: from excellent opportunities for career development to a positive, collaborative culture and great company perks, our global offices are a fantastic place to work at any stage of your career. As our client base continues to grow, we’re looking for talented individuals who share our values to come and grow their careers with us. With opportunities in the UK, Australia, and North America, now is an exciting time to join Adestra and become part of our global success.
OpusVL
Founded in January 2000, OpusVL have established themselves as one of the UK’s leading business systems, ICT and Open Source specialists providing best of breed, strategic and bespoke solutions. The company’s key strength is its straightforward approach, which is achieved by following a simple, yet effective method for every project: advice, implement, support, using an agile approach coupled with innovation as the cornerstone of every project.
Oleeo
Oleeo, formerly WCN, is an award-winning provider of innovative talent acquisition technology. Built using intelligent automation and machine learning, Oleeo’s platform helps companies discover unlimited sourcing potential to attract, engage and hire amazing, diverse teams that change the world for the better. Our mission is to help recruiters do that faster and more efficiently than ever before. Utilise our intelligent automation to help secure exceptional talent with rapid time-to-hire. Enjoy the massive rewards experienced by our customers, including Marks & Spencer, Morgan Stanley, Metropolitan Police, Civil Service Resourcing, John Lewis Partnership. Benefit from our bespoke, prescriptive intelligence and pinpoint perfect candidates who can steer your business forwards at every level. We offer one complete talent acquisition system end-to-end: Attract, engage, monitor, interview, hire & onboard without any compromise on candidate quality.
Perl Services
We develop your software in Perl. Are you looking for a reliable partner with a long history of Perl experience? Person who is well-versed in anything related to Perl? Or do you have another concern that requires Perl knowledge? Then you're at the right address: we support you in (almost) everything to do with Perl.
Dave Cross will be talking about Measuring the Quality of your Perl Code. As Dave says, we'd all like to write "better" code, but how do you know what "better" means, and how do you know how well your current code scores on whatever scale you choose? His talk on the same topic was standing room only at TPC in Riga this year, so be sure to come along to learn about possible measures for the quality of your code and ways to incorporate these into your development process.
Lance Wicks jokes that he "speaks Perl 6, just with a heavy Perl 5 accent". His Perl 6, losing your Perl 5 accent session will describe losing that accent and writing more idiomatic code, making sure you don’t miss out on some of the great parts of Perl 6. This will involve taking some working Perl 6 code written in a Perl 5 style and changing it to be more Perl 6 like - Lance notes that audience participation may be required!
More great talks will be announced soon - the deadline for talks is Monday 30th September so there’s still time to submit a proposal. And if you haven’t yet signed up for LPW 2019, and can make it to central London on Saturday 19th October then register here. It’s free, and it’s going to be a fun day!
]]>We've already had some great talks submitted and will start announcing these soon. If you'd like to tell people about what you have been doing with Perl 5, Perl 6 or any related topics please submit your proposal before the end of Monday 30 September.
If you have any questions then write to us at organisers@londonperlworkshop.org - we are happy to discuss ideas with you. See you at the Workshop!
]]>You could register if you don't already have an account otherwise login and register.
We are also accepting talk proposal now. If you would like to be a speaker at London Perl Workshop 2019 then please submit your proposal as soon as possible.
You are free to pick your favourite technology to talk about whether it is Perl 5, Perl 6 or any other languages/technologies.
Last but not the least, we are looking for sponsors. For more information, please visit the page.
We hope to see you there,
Tom, Lee, Katherine, Julien and Mohammad (the organising team)
]]>The videos were recorded using the equipment purchased for LPW 2017, which has since been expanded by The Enlightened Perl Organisation (EPO). We want this equipment to be available to other workshops/conferences/tech meets, to allow high quality recordings at very low cost, so have added the details to the EPO Conference Video repository on github for view/contribution.
As always, thanks to our sponsors who made LPW 2018 possible:
- Eligo
- Perl Careers
- CV Library
- Adestra
- Broadbean
- Oleeo
- OpusVL
- The Perl 6 Community
- Adzuna
- Geekuni
Adestra
Here at Adestra we empower our clients to maximize marketing ROI through email-driven technology. Our flexible account structure, obsession with customer success, and award-winning service have gained the trust of global and growing brands alike.
We’re proud to say we treat our people well: from excellent opportunities for career development to a positive, collaborative culture and great company perks, our global offices are a fantastic place to work at any stage of your career. As our client base continues to grow, we’re looking for talented individuals who share our values to come and grow their careers with us. With opportunities in the UK, Australia, and North America, now is an exciting time to join Adestra and become part of our global success.
Broadbean Technology
We provide a suite of tools, based on open source technology, that help companies streamline staff recruitment and sourcing of candidates. A global business with 3500 customers supported from offices in California/London/France and Australia.
You would enjoy working at Broadbean if you get a kick from taking ideas from conception through to new products, in a team where you will make a daily contribution to the growth of the company.
Oleeo
Oleeo means a diverse collection of things that together, make something beautiful. That’s how we see ourselves; a diverse team of technology and talent acquisition professionals who’ve come together to achieve something - well beautiful. We are pioneers in recruitment software and our solutions are built to accelerate and improve the entire recruiting process, creating a more meaningful and transparent experience for recruiters and candidates
Our purpose (and passion) is to help companies attract, engage and hire amazing, diverse teams that can change the world for the better. We've done that by assembling a diverse and growing team of our own.
Opus VL
Founded in January 2000, OpusVL have established themselves as one of the UK’s leading business systems, ICT and Open Source specialists providing best of breed, strategic and bespoke solutions. The company’s key strength is its straightforward approach, which is achieved by following a simple, yet effective method for every project: advice, implement, support, using an agile approach coupled with innovation as the cornerstone of every project.
Founded in 2000 and written in Perl since the beginning CV-Library is the UK's leading independent job board with over 4.3 million unique visitors a month.
CV-Library is proud to be a long time sponsor of LPW and supporter of the Perl community, hosting London.pm technical meetings and contributing code back to CPAN (check our out CPAN and GitHub accounts). Since 2017 we have participated in the CPAN Pull Request Challenge as a team with monthly code and pizza nights and are looking for a new team challenge for 2019!
At this year’s workshop our Tech Director Katherine is one of the organisers and is chairing the “I'm a Former London.PM Leader - Ask Me Anything” session, and Colin, our London Dev Team Lead is giving us Security Education for Developers.
Today the platform is modern Perl with microservices and docker containers. Day to day, the dev team deliver high quality features through code reviews, automated tests and continuous deployment.
In our Fleet and London offices, we have opportunities for developers and testers at every level, so please introduce yourself on the day to Katherine, Paulo or Colin, or check out our vacancies and our tech blog.