Dave Cross

Free Perl Training London

Apr 242012

Dave Cross will be running a free, one-day Perl course at Google Campus in London on Saturday 4th August.

You can register at http://perltraining.eventbrite.co.uk/.

The course is called “Modern Perl for Non-Perl Programmers” and it will be aimed at people who haven’t written any Perl (or who have written very little Perl) and over six hours the course will persuade them just how useful modern Perl is.

That, of course, means that readers of Perl News aren’t really in the target audience. But I expect that you all know people who are (it’s very unlikely that any of you don’t know any non-Perl programmers). So I’d like to ask for your help in promoting the course. Please share the link in as many places as you can think of where non-Perl programmers might congregate.

Booking.com Donate Another €100,000

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Dec 142011

Following their donation of $10,000 in the summer, Booking.com have made another donation towards the future development of Perl. This time the donation is for €100,000. Perl Foundation president Karen Pauley and former Perl 5 Pumpking Jesse Vincent are travelling to Amsterdam where they will accept the donation.

More details and a press release will be available on the Perl Foundation web site later.

Cloud Support for Perl

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May 082011

There have been a couple of interesting announcements in the last couple of weeks about the support for Perl programming from cloud suppliers.

dotcloud have added support for Perl (this may well be connected with the fact that Miyagawa is about to join them)
ActiveState have announced a new cloud platform called Stackato. Initially, Stackato includes support for both Perl an Python.

It’s good to see Perl given support in this area. If you see any more suppliers adding Perl to their platforms then please let us know in the comments.