I'm sure this will be of interest to some! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jane Morrison <off...@ukuug.org> Date: 6 November 2012 14:18 Subject: UKUUG: [UKUUG-Announce] FLOSS UK & O'Reilly announces - Intermediate & Advanced Perl courses by Dave Cross To: annou...@ukuug.org
Intermediate Perl - 12th & 13th February 2013 Advanced Perl - 14th & 15th February 2013 Tutor: Dave Cross Venue: The Ambassadors Hotel, 12 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0HX 2 day Intermediate Perl (including practical sessions) NOTE: All delegates will need to bring a laptop with a recent version of Perl installed. Description: This course is aimed at people who have written a little Perl and who want to add another dimension to their Perl knowledge. This will take you from being “someone who uses Perl” to a “Perl programmer”. Course Outline: Types of variable Strict and warnings References Sorting Reusable code Object orientation Testing Dates & times Templates Databases Further information 2 day Advanced Perl (including practical sessions) NOTE: All delegates will need to bring a laptop with a recent version of Perl installed. Description: This course is aimed at people who have a lot of experience of Perl but who might not have had the time to keep up to date with the latest Perl techniques. This course teaches the latest techniques being used by the world's best Perl programmers. This is the knowledge that will enable you to describe yourself as a “Perl expert”. Course Outline: The latest versions of Perl Advanced testing DBIx::Class Handling exceptions Profiling & benchmarking Dancer and Catalyst Object Oriented programming with Moose Web development with Plack Tutor: 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 SW London. The rumours about gold- plated cats were never true. Places are limited – early booking is essential Early-bird rates available until 14th January 2013 £395 (Individual & Academic members inc. vat) - for the 2 day course £450 (Corporate members inc. vat) - for the 2 day course £500 (non-members inc. vat) - for the 2 day course For on-line booking go to: http://booking.flossuk.org/perl2013/ -- FLOSS UK Secretariat PO Box 37 Buntingford Herts SG9 9UQ Tel: 01763 273475 Fax: 01763 273255 off...@flossuk.org off...@ukuug.org www.flossuk.org www.ukuug.org A Company Limited by Guarantee UKUUG Ltd. t/a FLOSS UK Registered Office: The Manor House Buntingford Herts SG9 9AB Reg. No. 2506680 _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list annou...@lists.ukuug.org http://lists.ukuug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce _______________________________________________ Council mailing list coun...@lists.ukuug.org http://lists.ukuug.org/mailman/listinfo/council -- Ian Norton Co-Leader North West England Perl Mongers (http://northwestengland.pm.org/) Member of The Perl Foundation Marketing Committee (http://www.perlfoundation.org/) Member of FLOSS UK Council (http://www.flossuk.org/)