Tuesday 18 November 2014

How to launch a virtual desktop on AWS


Did you ever get a GUI bug report which you couldn't replicate on any desktop at your disposal?

Last night was the first time for me, and here's my solution...




Source: Flickr, Image by Krystian "Krane" Schneidewind





Sunday 13 July 2014

Interview: Emma Howson - Graduate Perl developer

For the last six months Geekuni has been in the Beta phase. Several dozen people have taken my Perl Essentials and Web Development courses, giving me helpful feedback on the course content and technology. As market research I've interviewed a few of my graduates to understand what motivates people to learn Perl. I'm sharing these interviews to provide a glimpse of the future Perl community.


Wednesday 2 July 2014

A Perl professional learning Dancer

For the last six months Geekuni has been in the Beta phase. Several dozen people have taken my Perl Essentials and Web Development courses, giving me helpful feedback on the course content and technology. As market research I've interviewed a few of my graduates to understand what motivates people to learn Perl. I'm sharing these interviews to provide a glimpse of the future Perl community.

Wednesday 25 June 2014

Serial entrepreneur learning Perl Dancer

For the last six months Geekuni has been in the Beta phase. Several dozen people have taken my Perl Essentials and Web Development courses, giving me helpful feedback on the course content and technology. As market research I've interviewed a few of my graduates to understand what motivates people to learn Perl. I'm sharing these interviews to provide a glimpse of the future Perl community.

Tuesday 17 June 2014

Interview: Michael Rupp - Adding Perl to the toolbox

For the last six months Geekuni has been in the Beta phase. Several dozen people have taken my Perl Essentials and Web Development courses, giving me helpful feedback on the course content and technology. As market research I've interviewed a few of my graduates to understand what motivates people to learn Perl. I'm sharing these interviews to provide a glimpse of the future Perl community.

Saturday 15 February 2014

Why learn Vim?

It's not the first time a student has been exasperated that they have to write their code in Vim...

Tuesday 11 February 2014

Snapshot 2014* - The Perl web development job market

A survey of the Perl Web Development job market

Having used the Dancer web framework for a year I was so impressed by the simplicity and clarity that in 2011 I started giving an annual Web Development class at the London Perl Workshop. By 2013 I'd noticed that one of the questions which often came up was along the lines of "is this going to get me a job?"