I managed to herd three large (huge! even) corporate cats sufficently to organise a conference call in which, and this shocked me too, they agreed fairly rapidly to all hire Mark Jason Dominus for a day each to talk about Higher Order Perl

Why did I attempt to do this madness? Because he agreed that if i could get him 3 days worth of consulting ( Read more... )

Amazingly the LPW didn't result in any deaths, maimings or other graphic unpleasantness.

I'm still in shock. Or hungover. Or in alcoholic renal failure.

Everything seemed to go smoothly and people seemed to have a good time. We got a turn out of about 250 I think including plenty of people who I'd never seen before and who were Perl beginners. ( Read more... )