Summer is upon us and you know what that means: a new Perl conference! Actually more than one, but let’s keep our focus on this side of the pond. Perl people, rise, rise and start writing proposals! This year The EU Perl Conference is in Amsterdam this year and the topic is High End Perl.  The organizers suggestions for topics are: Something where Perl saved you (a lot of) time Something where you ...

The Perl Team is a Perl software house that, the name gives it away a bit, works in Perl almost exclusively. There’s a certain confidence gained when you find out about another big and successful company using Perl, our entire platform is meant to showcase and promote the Perl business environment, so another addition will definitely build things up. But, the thing is, the Perl Team is not just another company that uses Perl, they&rsqu ...

Calendis is a startup created in Perl about 3 years ago. It’s a platform where you, as an end user, can make appointments for various services, like hair salons, dentists office, gyms etc. As a business you can be featured in a marketplace where users can find you, make appointments and become your customers. Businesses can also use Calendis as a tool to manage employees, customers, services, sales reports and even to send ...

The Perl Conference 2017 took place last week in DC, between June 18 and June 23. This was one of the two yearly Perl conferences (formerly known as YAPC). Some of you might have been there and over the course of 5 days (pre and post conference tutorials included) got a chance to see some great talks, mingle, network with some awesome people and of course, learn more about Perl. For all of you who attended we urge you to let everybody know how it went. Write a blog ...

It’s a tough question to answer. Is there a way to quantify all the Perl developers in the world? There is also a difference between developers who use some Perl in their work, but are not Perl developers per se, which makes it harder to come up with a given figure. Let’s look at some numbers People who attended YAPC:: Asia 2015 in Tokyo - 2130 People who attended YAPC::EU 2016 - 352 ...

Seeing a startup built in Perl is a great thing, for Perl developers and the Perl community. But beyond that, Depentree represents work, time and effort from a developer to create something useful and practical for other developers. This is a Perl startup. Let’s get to brass tacks. Depentree.com is a code dependency tracker that helps you to be aware when the software you depend on is updated, when an important i ...