Perl School 4: Database Programming with Perl and DBIx::Class

[Mark Stringer]

At the risk of acquiring a brown nose...

The quality of these events shouldn't be underestimated. I went along to 
one and was pleasantly surprised. If anyone's on the fence about whether 
it can really be any good for such a small outlay - just do it!

mullet


On 02/06/2013 09:28 AM, Mark Keating wrote:
> On 06/02/2013 08:13, Dave Cross wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 02/06/2013 07:48 AM, Hakim Cassimally wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On 6 February 2013 07:18, Dave Cross <dave at dave.org.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Perl School 4 is this Saturday (9th Feb). It's an introduction to
>>>> DBIx::Class.
>>>>
>>>> It's a full-day course for £30 and it takes place at Google Campus in
>>>> London.
>>>
>>> Golly, that looks almost absurdly reasonably priced!
>>>
>>> That's not just compared to the commercial training companies with
>>> small groups, dedicated building overheads, lunch, computer equipment
>>> etc which if I remember rightly would be maybe £500-1000 a day?
>>>
>>> But even assuming that Google Campus has a community, grassroots
>>> focus, and is therefore offering cheap/free room, that you have a
>>> larger classroom size, and save money by having them all bring their
>>> own laptops, £30 seems fairly competitive against similar courses run
>>> by Manchester MadLab's Omniversity.
>>
>> I *do* have absurdly low overheads :)
>>
>> But it's also about giving stuff back to the community. And trying to 
>> encourage people to come along and hear about the cool things that 
>> Perl has been doing in the last few years.
>>
>>>> Sign up at http://perlschool.co.uk/upcoming/
>>
>> Dave...
>>
> And for that you should be firmly, and warmly, encouraged and 
> congratulated.
>
> -mdk
>