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You may have missed something at Stonehenge, but we usually do things more than once. You can still invite us to talk, teach, hang-out, or just about anything else that you see that we've done before.

Open Enrollment Training at YAPC::EU in Lisbon

Yet Another Perl Conference :: Europe :: 2009

May 26: On August 6-7 (the two days after YAPC), Stonehenge presents its Mastering Perl course in a low-cost, "master class" form at YAPC::EU in Lisbon, Portugal. Register for the class when you register for the conference.

Stonehenge tutorials at OSCON in San Jose

OSCON 2009

May 26: On Monday July 20, Stonehenge is presenting two of its courses at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention in San Jose, CA. In the morning, brian d foy presents a condensed version of his Mastering Perl course. In the afternoon, Randal Schwartz presents "Introduction to Web Application Development Using Smalltalk Seaside" (right after Avi Bryant from Dabble DB gives his Finding the Swan in Squeak's Ugly Duckling introduction to Smalltalk). Register for these tutorials when you register for OSCON.

"Creating Your Own CPAN" from YAPC::Russia

May 18: brian d foy gave his "Making Your Own CPAN" talk at YAPC::Russia in Moscow as part of his ongoing work with tools that allow people to better manage their Perl module use.

Randal Schwartz talks about Git at Google

October 12: Randal Schwartz gave his talk on Git, a distributed source control system, at the Google campus in Mountain View. Watch it in Google Video.

brian d foy talks about "Making My Own CPAN" on perlcast

September 29: brian d foy talks about custom versions of CPAN at the Los Angeles Perl Mongers meeting. This is the presentation version of his article "Making My Own CPAN" in the latest issue of The Perl Review.

Stonehenge awards Rock Star Grant to Andrew Ford

September 20: Stonehenge has awarded a Rock Star Grant to Andrew Ford, maintainer of Refcards.com, to allow him to develop new reference cards and finish work on existing cards.

Mastering Perl Available

July 15: brian d foy's latest book, Mastering Perl is on the shelves and available for purchase. Mastering Perl is the third book in the Learning Perl series and rounds out the Perler's education.

Open Enrollment Training in Chicago, December 10-14

October 31: From December 10 to 14, Stonehenge will be offering its "Learning Perl", "Intermediate Perl", "Beginning Catalyst", and "Test Driven Development" class in a low-cost, open-enrollment form. See our Open Enrollment page for details and registration.

Perlcast News by Randal Schwartz

September 13: Randal Schwartz reports the latest Perl news for Perlcast, the Perl podcast.

Nordic Perl Workshop talks online

brian d foy made several presentations at the Nordic Perl Workshop 2007 in Copenhagen, including another installation of Learning Perl 6. His talk slides and audio are in the NPW Wiki. These talks will also show up on Perlcast, which Stonehenge sponsored by sending Josh McAdams to the conference.

Randal Schwartz's Perlcast news for April 27

Randal Schwartz gives you the latest Perl news is his podcast for Perlcast.

Mastering Perl Pre-Orders

brian d foy's latest book, Mastering Perl, is in production and available for pre-order Amazon and other booksellers. We expect it to be available in May 2007. You can browse the book online at brian's personal website.

Stonehenge sponsors the Nordic Perl Workshop

Stonehenge is proud to sponsor the 2007 Nordic Perl Workshop by extending the Rock Star Grant for Josh McAdams, who will travel to the workshop to podcast its sessions. Additionally, brian d foy will be speaking at the conference.

Rob Kinyon adds transactions to DBM:Deep

Through a Rock Star Grant, Rob Kinyon spent two months working on DBM::Deep, which he recently took over maintenance for. With funding from Stonehenge, he was able to complete his work to rewrite the core code and add transaction support to it. Rob recently released DBM::Deep 1.00.

Learning Perl Study Guide

The Learning Perl Study Guide, 64 pages of additional exercises and answers to go along with Learning Perl, 4th Edition, is now on sell through The Perl Review.

Randal Schwartz's Perlcast news for January 20

Randal Schwartz gives you the latest Perl news is his podcast for Perlcast.

Intermediate Perl

O'Reilly Media published the second edition of the best selling "Alpaca" Perl book, renamed Intermediate Perl by Stonehenge experts Randal Schwartz, brian d foy, and Tom Phoenix.

Learning Perl, 4th Edition

O'Reilly Media published the fourth edition of the best selling Perl book, Learning Perl, 4th Edition by Stonehenge experts Randal Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy.

brian d foy at the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop

brian d foy will be giving the keynote lecture, "Making Perl Work for You" for the beginner's track at the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop on September 23.

Randal Schwartz's Perlcast latest news segment

Randal Schwartz gives you the latest Perl news is his podcast for Perlcast. You can also listen to his initial Perlcast news segment. Stonehenge is a major sponsor of Perlcast.

brian d foy at Seattle Perl Users Group

brian d foy will be speaking at the Seattle Perl Users Group on Monday, June 24. Topic and times to be be determined.

brian d foy at OSCON

brian d foy will be at OSCON 2006, including a book signing at Powell's Technical Books at 5pm on Tuesday, July 25. Come get your copy of Learning Perl or Intermediate Perl signed, or just chat about Perl.

brian d foy at Big Nerd Ranch, Germany

brian d foy will teach Stonehenge's Intermediate Perl course at Big Nerd Ranch, (Frankfurt, Germany) on September 11-15, 2006.

FLOSS Weekly interviews Randal

Chris DiBona and Leo Laporte of FLOSS Weekly interviews Randal about Perl, Perl 6, Geekcruises, GIT, and partying with open source luminaries.

Open-enrollment training in Chicago

We're organizing a low-cost, open-enrollment Learning Perl and Intermediate Perl training to go along with the next Yet Another Perl Conference (North America) will be in Chicago on June 26-28, 2006, with two days of low-cost Perl training from Stonehenge to follow on June 29 and 30. YAPC is handling the details and you can book the class through them.

Randal Schwartz at FISL

Randal Schwartz will be at the 7th Fórum Internacional Software Livre in Porte Alegre, Brazil on April 19-22, 2006.

Portland Powell's Perl Party

Meet the Stonehenge trainers and the authors of the soon-to-be-released Intermediate Perl (Randal Schwartz, brian d foy, and Tom Phoenix) at Powell's Bookstore in Portland, Oregon on March 25, 2006 at 1 pm. Other Perl authors, including Allison Randal and chromatic, will also be there.

brian d foy at Chicago Uniforum

brian d foy will talk about " Perl Benchmarking" at UniForum Chicago on March 14 at 7 pm.

Perlcast interviews brian d foy

Josh McAdams of Perlcast, a podcast focusing on Perl and the people of Perl, interviews brian d foy about the latest issue of The Perl Review.

Randal Schwartz interviewed by "tips from the top floor"

Although Randal doesn't talk much about Perl on "tips from the top floor", a digital photography podcast, he does sing in the voice of Kermit the Frog, talk about his different cameras and their different uses, and many other things. This interview was so long that it comes in two parts: Part I and Part II. The first part of the interview even includes outtakes.

Perlcast interviews brian d foy

Josh McAdams of Perlcast, a podcast focusing on Perl and the people of Perl, interviews brian d foy about the latest issue of The Perl Review.

Learning Perl, 4th Edition

O'Reilly media published the fourth edition of the best selling Perl book, Learning Perl, 4th Edition by Stonehenge experts Randal Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy.

Perlcast interviews Randal Schwartz

Josh McAdams of Perlcast, a podcast focusing on Perl and the people of Perl, interviews Randal Schwartz about his involvement in the community, the history of "Just Another Perl Hacker", the story behind the Schwartzian Transform moniker, and the business of Perl consulting (including our Guru-on-demand service. Earlier this summer, Josh also interviewed brian d foy about his magazine, The Perl Review.

Randal Schwartz on MacMania IV

Cruise the Mexican Riviera with Geekcruises and Randal Schwartz on February 4-11, 2006. The MacMania cruise runs concurrently with Photoshop Fling III. Check out Randal's schedule to see what else he is doing.

Randal Schwartz at LISA 05

Meet Randal Schwartz at LISA 2005, December 4-9, 2005 in San Diego. Check out Randal's schedule to see what else he is doing.

Randal Schwartz at CONISLI

Randal will deliver a keynote address at Congresso Internacional de Software Livre (CONISLI) in Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 3-5, 2005. At last year's meeting, Randal helped set up "Sociedade Perl do Brasil" (The Perl Society of Brazil). Check out Randal's schedule to see what else he is doing.

brian d foy meets with Boston Perl Mongers

Come have dinner with brian d foy and the Boston Perl Mongers at 7:30pm on Thursday, October 20, at RedBones in Davis Square. You can win an autographed copy of Learning Perl, 4th Edition.

Randal Schwartz on Website Wave

Cruise the Caribbean with Geekcruises and Randal Schwartz on October 17-21, 2005. Check out Randal's schedule to see what else he is doing.

Geekcruises "Perl Whirl 2005"

Cruise the Western Mediterranean with Stonehenge gurus Randal Schwartz and brian d foy. Learn Perl, learn history, kick back & relax.

Randal Schwartz at Dragon*Con, September 2-5

Randal Schwartz will be re-appearing at Dragon*Con September 2-5. He's part of the EFF track talking about "The Future of Peer-to-Peer" with Annalee Newitz, as well as his usual Hacking 101 and Hacking 102 panels which aim to dispel the misconception about "hacking" through a discussion with the audience about the history and culture of computing.

Open enrollment Perl training in Portland, Oregon

Sign up for our next public Learning Perl class at the Oregon Graduate Institute from August 16-19.

brian d foy at Uniforum Chicago, August 9

Stonehenge guru brian d foy will talk about Testing Perl Software at Uniforum Chicago on Tuesday, August 9 at 7 pm. Besides the talk, he has several books and other things to give away.

The O'Reilly Open Source Convention, August 1-5

Meet the Stonehenge staff at OSCON. Randal Schwartz gives a talk on spam-fighting techniques he developed (and are now used at AOL). Our staff will be at the Stonehenge booth in the exhibit hall on Wednesday and Thursday. Stop by the booth to get a t-shirt that serves as your admission to the Stonehenge party at Ground Kontrol on Wednesday Night!

Look on your conference schedule for the location os these events where you can meet the Stonehenge Perl experts: