Oslo Perl Mongers is an interest group to promote the use of the programming language Perl. We have monthly meetings in Oslo, Norway and organize topical meetings and conferences now and then. You can find out more on our homepage.
Jan Henning Thorsen tells us about his syntax-sweetener for Catalyst controllers.
Andrew Shitov (CPAN id: ANDY) asks "Is it possible to cover huge territory with Perl events in a year?" and shows us what's been going on in the Russian Perl communities. This lightning talk was given at the Nordic Perl Workshop in Oslo, Norway on April 17th 2009.
Anatoly Sharifulin (CPAN id: SHARIFULN) talks about CPAN, modules, authors (Acme::CPANAuthors) and documentation (POD2). And why this is so important for him. This lightning talk was given at the Nordic Perl Workshop in Oslo, Norway on April 17th 2009.
Larry Wall's keynote, "The future of Lazyness, Impatience and Hubris." Larry tells us about the state of Perl today, what drives the Perl 6 development forward, on programming language design in general and details about what makes Perl 6 interesting. This talk was given during the Nordic Perl Workshop in Oslo, April 16th 2009.
Edmund von der Burg (CPAN id: EVDB) introduces us to the Send-A-Newbie project, about it's goal and motivation and how you can help. This lightning talk was given during the Nordic Perl Workshop in Oslo, April 17th 2009.
Matt S. Trout (CPAN id: MSTROUT) announces the enlightenedperl.org Blogging Iron Man competition, and the rationale behind it. This lightning talk was given at the Nordic Perl Workshop, in Oslo, Norway on April 17th 2009.
Jos Boumans talks about the dirty secrets of Perl at Nordic Perl Workshop 2006
Michael Schwern gives us a few insights on writing reusable code. Sort of. This is a talk about what goes on in large open source communities, how things work, and what we can learn from this.
Adam Kennedy tells us about testing on a massive scale, and how the world's largest single-namespace software repository (CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) attempts to solve the problems that come from attempting to test everything.
Michael Schwern tells us about the seven principles of making difficult tasks into simple ones. Each principle will be illustrated first using a physical example, then an example in a computer user interface and finally it will be shown applied directly to programming. The seven principles are: * Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head * Simplify the structure of tasks * Make things visible * Get the mappings right * Exploit the power of constraints * Design for error * When ...