March 2015 Archives

Sydney-PM April 2015

Broadbean have offered to host us this month, thanks be to Peter Harrison for setting the wheels in motion.

What: Sydney PM
Date: Tuesday, 14th April 2015
Time: 6-9:30pm
Where: Broadbean, Suite 8.03, 9 Hunter Street, Sydney

Speakers are needed!

Here are some ideas:

  • Anything to do with rapid creation or consumption of rest/soap/xmlrpc/other apis
  • Getting started on perl testing
  • Using perl in funky cloud services like digitial ocean, codio, heroku etc
  • Maybe something on logging, log4perl, L…

Firefox is dead... or something

In terms of market share, there has been no shortage of comparisons between Perl and Firefox over recent years. For that reason then, I found recent analysis of survey results interesting.

In the last 12 months, Firefox's user share -- an estimate of the portion of all those who reach the Internet via a desktop browser -- has plummeted by 34%. Since Firefox crested at 25.1% in April 2010, Firefox has lost 13.5 percentage points, or 54% of its peak share.…

Upcoming 2015 Sydney PM Meets

In brief...

Catalyst have agreed to host us on March 10th.

Broadbean have asked to have us on April 14th.

SiteSuite have agreed to host on the 14th of May.

Dates beyond that are up for grabs, and speakers are welcomed for any and all meetings.

Help promote by printing and hanging either the A3 or A4 poster around your workplace, university, co…

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