This week we had the 21st(!) German Perl Workshop, this time in Munich, which is just a short0 train ride from Vienna. I stayed in a hotel very near the venue and opposite of a huge fitness center with an all-glass front, so one could watch people slave away on the treadmills. The pre-conf meeting took place at a Lebanese restaurant, where Jens ...
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In diesem Talk plaudere ich ein wenig darüber, was ich beim Advent of Code gelernt habe (div Algorithmen, mit denen ich sonst nie in Kontakt komme; wann es besser ist, aufzuhören; unfaire Zeitzonen, ...) Slides: German Slides for the German Perl Workshop 2019 in ...
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As a side project, I'm currently working on yet another disqus clone, senph, as seen at the end of this very post. For a frontend, I choose vue.js. In this talk, I try to explain vue.js (and a bit of JavaScript) as my Perl brain understands it. Slides: Slides for the European Perl Conference 2018 in Glasgow; Video Slides for the German Perl ...
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Some time ago we had the glorious idea to deploy our code into the cloud. The Google cloud, to be specific. This means we had to learn Kubernetes (to manage and scale our apps), Docker (to pack the apps into containers), gitlab CI (to automate the deployment process) and a whole lot more. In this talk I'll explain the basics of Kubernetes, Docker
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Tonight we had our first TechMeet of 2019. There was a slight focus on parsing: Daxim talked about "Parsen mit Perl", in preparation for his talk at the German Perl Workshop. Robert also talked about parsing, showing us some parsers he wrote using Parse::Yapp and Parse::RecDescent. Throughout the talks we had interesting discussions about parsing,
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