Intermediate Perl - 11th & 12th November 2014

Advanced Perl - 13th & 14th November 2014

Venue: 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.

Delegate costs:

£399 inc. vat - Individual / Academic members

£525 inc. vat - Corporate members

£720 inc. vat - Non-members

On-line booking here or download the form and send it to the office

Places are limited – early booking is essential

Early-bird rates available until 1st October 2014