Ok, so, as a favour to the UKUUG and to Dave Cross, founder of the illustrious london.pm and person mad enough to let me split the tutorial time at the London Perl Workshop 2008 with him, I hereby re-appear on the lists to point out that there are tutorials going on, and those of you attempting to get people up to speed or rescue PHP developers or whatever might be interested in it.
So, if you are interested, here's the details - UKUUG (in conjunction with O'Reilly) presents: Introduction to Perl - 25th February 2009 Advanced Perl Techniques - 26th February 2009 Tutor: Dave Cross see: http://www.ukuug.org/events/perl09/ Day 1: Introduction to Perl - 25th February: This one-day course is an introduction to Perl for complete beginners. No knowledge of Perl is assumed, although attendees will have a slight advantage if they have some knowledge of at least one other programming language. At the end of the course, attendees will have enough knowledge to write a number of useful Perl programs, together with details of where to go for more information. Syllabus: What is Perl Input and output Creating and running a Perl program Regular expressions Perl variables References Operators and functions Finding and using modules Conditional constructs Smart matching Subroutines Day 2: Advanced Perl Techniques - 26th February: Perl has come a long way since the "scripting language" which powered most of the world wide web in the 1990s. There are many ways to build applications in Perl. In this course we will look at some powerful techniques which are used by the best Perl programmers in the world. This one-day course is aimed at programmers who have been using Perl for some time but who may not be completely up to date with the latest Perl techniques. At the end of the course attendees will have a number of modern Perl programming techniques to their programming toolkit. Syllabus: What's new in Perl 5.10 Dates and times Testing (including coverage analysis) Database access with DBIx::Class Profiling Object oriented programming with Moose Templates Web application development with Catalyst TUTOR Biography: Dave Cross is the owner of Magnum Solutions Ltd, an Open Source consultancy company based in London. In 1998 he started london.pm which has grown to be one of the largest Perl Mongers groups in the world. He nominally led the group until September 2001. Between August 2002 and June 2006 he was the Perl Mongers User Groups Co-ordinator for the Perl Foundation. Dave is a regular speaker at Perl and Open Source conferences and is often invited to present tutorials alongside the main conference. He is the author of "Data Munging with Perl" (Manning, 2001) and a co-author of "Perl Template Toolkit" (O'Reilly, 2003). Dave lives in South West London. The rumours about gold-plated cats were never true. Each day starts at 09:30 - ends approx. 17:00 each day -- Matt S Trout Need help with your Catalyst or DBIx::Class project? Technical Director http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/catalyst/ Shadowcat Systems Ltd. Want a managed development or deployment platform? http://chainsawblues.vox.com/ http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/servers/ _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/