I have been trying to shrink the package repositories in maemo as we have lots of packages. Having lots of packages is a good thing, a sign of a healthy developer community. Of course, there is no need to keep older versions of the package around, people should be using the latest package because that [...]
So Matt Trout had a talk on “Rum, bloggery, and the lash” at the most recent Nordic Perl Workshop. In his inimitable style, he exhorted people to join his “Ironman” blogging competition so that we can populate the interwebs with chatter about perl. All of this in an effort to evangelize perl to a new [...]
My friend and colleague Gabor Szabo will be in Oslo for the Go Open Conference next week. He is also going to be hosting a couple of special training sessions which might be of interest, especially to those of you who do testing. First is the Test Automation Training which is geared to Perl 5 [...]
The Go Open conference in Norway has some star power this year, here’s a quick list of some of the speakers; Ian Murdoch – Founder of debian Larry Wall – Father of Perl Patrick Michaud and Jonathan Worthington – Perl 6 designers Werner Knoblich, Vice President – General Manager EMEA, Red Hat Simon Phipps – [...]