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Last week the 5th Open World Forum took place in the very heart of Paris, and this year af83 was again strongly involved in this major European and French Open Source event. We are totally dedicated to...
View ArticleFrom the London Perl Workshop to Tech Mesh
London Perl Workshop A cold, wet Saturday morning saw me once again making my way to Westminster University for the London Perl Workshop. Even though there were a lot of floods in the west counties, I...
View ArticleQCon London 2013 Highlights: Future of Mobile Dev, Technology in Finance...
The 7th annual QCon London will feature over 100 speakers presenting more than 80 presentations across 15 tracks. Last year’s event was completely sold out with over 1,200 attendees: technical team...
View ArticleAnother year, another Fosdem
We arrived in Brussels on Friday and decided to spend a few hours enjoying ourselves before the big weekend. After booking in at the hotel, we decided to walk to the Musée de la Bande Dessinée (aka The...
View ArticleQCon 2013 is over!
March 6th to March 8th saw the 7th annual QCon in London. Like every year, QCon was held at the Queen Elizabeth II Hall next door to Westminster Abbey – a great venue. This year there were even more...
View ArticleLes Journees Perl, Nancy, France
It is always good to meet les mongueurs de perl de France. As we say in French “ils sont vachement sympas”. At the Journees Perl I learnt about the latest developments of Perl 6 which hopefully you...
View ArticleAll about Dancer – interview of Sawyer X
After we looked into Catalyst, we continue our exploration of Perl’s land of Web Frameworks, with Dancer. We talk about it to one of the core devs, Sawyer X, who kindly answered our questions in a very...
View ArticleAll about Dancer – interview of Sawyer X part 2
NV: Is Dancer 2 a complete re-write and why? what shortcomings of the first version does it address ? SX:Dancer 2 is indeed a complete rewrite of the code, and for good reason. Dancer started as a fork...
View ArticleAll about Dancer – interview of Sawyer X part 3 and last
NV: Dancer and web services, where do I start ? Conceptually, is REST only about web services ? SX: While REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is not limited to web services, it’s most widely used in...
View ArticleAll about Mojolicious – interview of Sebastian Riedel part 2
NV: Does the dependency free nature of Mojolicious act as an invitation to people familiar with other frameworks (i.e. Ruby on Rails) and languages (i.e. PHP)? That aside, what other...
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