FLOSS UK Prize Draw
25/11/15 11:37 by Mark Keating (mdk)
At last year’s LPW the great people of FLOSSUK gave away a day at one of Dave Cross’ Perl tutorials (a value piece worth circa £300). The winner, Paul Monkton, was unable to redeem it as the event was in the following week. The people of FLOSS have informed us that they will honour the free gift for the upcoming Perl talks that Dave will give in February of next year. Not only that the talks next year are on four different subjects and Paul will be able to choose which day/subject to attend.
Furthermore it is our pleasure to announce that there will be a draw this year for another person to attend one of the days/subjects next year. Thanks to FLOSSUK for the generous prize. Remember to pick up your ticket on the day at the registration desk. Also consider joining Dave for the week of talks in February, if you join the FLOSSUK membership the events are given a generous discount, easily covering the cost of membership in the reduced cost.
Visit: FLOSSUK for more details.
(One of the subjects is a 2-day event and if that is chosen then both days will be honoured, for this prize and for Paul’s win last year.)
Perl Talks in February 2016
- 3 x one day tutorials (Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday) and 1 x 2 day tutorial (Thursday & Friday)
- Day 1- Monday 8th February - Object Oriented Programming with Perl and Moose
- Day 2 - Tuesday 9th February - Database Programming with Perl and DBIx::Class
- Day 3 - Wednesday 10th February - An Introduction to Testing Perl Programs
- Day 4 & 5 - Thursday 11th & Friday 12th February - Modern Web Programming with Perl
Monday 8th February - Object Oriented Programming with Perl and Moose
Moose is fast becoming the standard way to write object oriented code in Perl. Moose is powerful and flexible. It makes writing object oriented Perl far easier than it has ever been before.
This one-day training course explains what Moose is and how it will help you write better object oriented Perl. It is aimed at programmers who know Perl but who might not have kept up to date with some of the most recent Perl tools.
Tuesday 9th February - Database Programming with Perl and DBIx::Class
Most applications need to store persistent data in some form. And many of those applications will use a database as that storage. For many years Perl has had a powerful database interface layer called DBI, but your Perl database programming will be even simpler if you use DBIx::Class on top of DBI.
This one-day course introduces DBIx::Class and explains how it can help you get your job done more quickly.
Wednesday 10th February - An Introduction to Testing Perl Programs
For a very long time, Perl has had a strong testing culture. It is expected that CPA modules will come with a comprehensive test suite which is run as part of the installation process. Many tools and frameworks are available to make testing Perl code as easy as possible.
This one-day course introduces various techniques and tools for testing Perl programs. It also shows attendees how to write their own testing tools or extend existing ones.
Thursday & Friday - 11th & 12th February - Modern Web Programming with Perl
Perl first became really popular when it was used to write dynamic web pages in the 1990s. Perl still has many flexible and powerful tools which can be used to write modern web applications, but they have moved on a long way since the CGI programs of the last millennium.
This two-day course introduces PSGI the current standard for Perl web development and covers modern web frameworks like Dancer and Catalyst which build on top of PSGI and make it easier than ever to write web applications using Perl.
