Jacinta Richardson

Jacinta Richardson
Training Coordinator, Perl Training Australia

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Jacinta Richardson runs Perl Training Australia, a micro-business offering courses throughout Australia. Both as part of her job and a massive free-time sink, she is involved in running conferences (linux.conf.au 2007, Open Source Developers’ Conference (Australia) 2004-2011, Australian System Administrators Conference (SAGE-AU) 2008-2009), attending conferences, writing perl-tips, speaking at Perl Monger meetings whenever she’s in the right town, participating in on-line Perl forums and promoting women in IT. For her work in the Perl community, Jacinta was awarded the White Camel Award in 2008. When away from the computer, Jacinta enjoys scuba diving, cycling and baking.

Sessions

4:10pm Wednesday, 07/18/2012
Don't Fear Unicode
Perl, Programming
 Location: E146
Jacinta Richardson (Perl Training Australia)
Average rating: ***..
(3.86, 7 ratings)
Unicode isn't new, but it still seems hard when you're starting at the beginning and haven't even been told the difference between a glyph, a codepoint, a character and a byte. Every year there are talks and tutorials at conferences about it, but if you haven't grasped the basics, you can feel frustrated and lost much too quickly. Fear not! It's about to get easier. Read more.
11:50am Friday, 07/20/2012
Small Business Mistakes
Business
 Location: E145
Jacinta Richardson (Perl Training Australia)
Average rating: ***..
(3.67, 3 ratings)
You have a great business idea and your friends and colleagues are supportive and tell you that you can do it. The forms have been filled in, you've said goodbye to your rat-race job, and you're investing your energy into getting things done. Still, despite how compelling your idea is, you're not making any money and your savings are dwindling. What are you doing wrong? Read more.

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