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perl hacks: CPAN RPMs 27 Aug 2013 | 05:32 pm
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ll know that I have an interest in packaging CPAN modules as RPMs for Linux distributions based on Red Hat. For a few years, I’ve been (infrequently) b...
perl hacks: Unicode and Perl 24 Aug 2013 | 03:52 pm
Over the last couple of days I’ve been involved in a couple of discussions where it is clear that other people don’t understand how Perl deals with Unicode. The documentation is clear and detailed (th...
perl hacks: A WordPress Critter 15 Aug 2013 | 02:08 pm
If you were at YAPC::Europe this week you might well have seen Richard Jelinek’s talk about how to increase Perl’s popularity. As part of that talk he suggested that the Perl community needed to run m...
Dave's Gig Reviews: The Polyphonic Spree – Village Underground 7 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
Why This Gig? Because it’s the Polyphonic Spree and they always put on a great show. I only discovered the band a few years ago and there have been very few opportunities to see them in the UK recent...
perl hacks: YAPC Europe Approaches 5 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
This time next week YAPC Europe will have started and many of us will be enjoying ourselves in Kiev. The organisers published the schedule over the weekend and it looks like it’s going to be a great c...
davblog: Insurance Update 4 Aug 2013 | 09:17 pm
Regular readers will know that two and a half weeks ago, my kitchen ceiling collapsed. A few people have asked me how things are going. Here’s an update. It’s not a happy story. I’ve been talking to ...
Dave's Gig Reviews: Kathryn Williams – Old St Pancras Church 2 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
I can’t find any video from the night, so here’s Kathyn’s new single. Why This Gig? I’ve been a big fan of Kathryn Williams for years, but for some reason I hadn’t got round to seeing her until rece...
perl hacks: Just Build Something 23 Jul 2013 | 01:54 pm
About a month ago, JT Smith suggested that we should all stop talking about Perl and just build something. And, purely coincidentally, over the last few weeks I resurrected a project that I have been ...
Dave's Gig Reviews: London Folkfest (Day 3) – The Bedford 22 Jul 2013 | 12:00 am
No video of the Folkfest. There were so many great acts that it would be unfair to pick one to include. Why This Gig? Because if they’re going to put on a festival of great music in the pub at the e...
Dave's Gig Reviews: London Folkfest (Day 2) – The Bedford 20 Jul 2013 | 12:00 am
No video of the Folkfest. There were so many great acts that it would be unfair to pick one to include. Why This Gig? Because if they’re going to put on a festival of great music in the pub at the e...
