Piers Cawley

Piers Cawley
Senior Programmer, Headforwards

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Piers Cawley started programming Perl in the mid nineties, but recently spent a few years working as a Ruby programmer.

He’s currently programming Perl for Headforwards in Cornwall.

He used to write a weekly summary of developments in Perl 6 for the perl.com website and has created custom balloon millinery for Sarah Novotny. He’s currently writing (and will hopefully have written, come OSCON) an eBook for O’Reilly on Higher Order Javascript.

Sessions

2:30pm Thursday, 07/19/2012
YARRR! Plundering Programming Paradigms for Profit!
Perl
 Location: D136
Tags: perl, javascript, smalltalk, haskell, lisp, piracy, plunder, re-emerging_languages
Piers Cawley (Headforwards)
Average rating: ***..
(3.77, 13 ratings)
Avast ye scurvy dogs! Strap yerselves in fer a pirate voyage around the islands of code! Feast yer eyes on the treasures of the mystic land of Haskell, the thifthing thands of lithp. Gasp at beautiful objects from Smalltalk and develop an eye for plundering programming pearls wherever you find 'em. Then bring 'em all back to the good ship 'Black Perl' use 'em for fun and profit. YARRR! Read more.
9:45am Friday, 07/20/2012
Saying Yes
Keynote
 Location: Portland Ballroom
Piers Cawley (Headforwards)
Average rating: ****.
(4.74, 31 ratings)
"Piers, do you want to do a keynote at OSCON?" "Yes! What should I talk about?" "Well... you know xkcd.com?" "Yes." "There's this strip over here. It'd be fun if..." "Oh! Hell yes!" So here I am. Saying yes. Read more.
11:50am Friday, 07/20/2012
Routine Testing in Perl
Perl
 Location: D136
Piers Cawley (Headforwards)
Average rating: ***..
(3.60, 5 ratings)
Moose! Testing! Isolation! All fine things to have when writing code, but it's all to easy for the goodness of Moose to stop short when you change directory from ./lib to ./t. RJBS's fabulous Test::Routine brings all the goodness of Moose into your tests as well, and in this session, I'll show you how to use it. RJBS would do it, but he's busy pumpkinging. Read more.

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