Perl Training Course 2012
Intermediate Perl - 21st & 22nd February 2012 Advanced Perl - 23rd & 24th February 2012
Imperial Hotel, Russell Square, London WC1B 5BB
For on-line booking go to: http://www.ukuug.org/events/perl2012/booking/
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 31st January 2012
£435 (Individual & Academic members inc. vat)- for the 2 day course £490 (Corporate members inc. vat)- for the 2 day course £600 (non-members inc. vat) - for the 2 day course
For on-line booking go to: http://www.ukuug.org/events/perl2012/booking/