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January Perl Workshop

by Visiting Instructor Dr. Damian Conway

Jan. 13-17, 2003 Seattle WA area REGISTER ME

Seminars

This five day workshop consists of four unique seminars covering important Perl topics presented by one of the foremost experts on the language, Dr. Damian Conway.

Students who meet the prerequisites are free to register for any of the seminars, but please note the following overlaps: Understanding Regexes doubles as the first day of Parsing for Bioinformatics, so there's no need for anyone to take both of those, and Data Munging and Understanding Regexes have 1/2 day of material in common.

01/15-16 Practical Extraction and Reporting
(aka "Data Munging")

01/15 Understanding Regexes

01/15-16 Parsing for Bioinformatics

01/17 Intermediate Object-Oriented Perl

Location and Accommodations

The seminars held Jan. 15-17 will be at a hotel in Kirkland, WA. Mention that you'll be attending a Consultix class in the SeaHawks room, and that you'd like the NWSTC rate.

We've got two overlapping classes scheduled for the 15th and 16th, Data Munging and Parsing for Bioinformatics; we'll decide which one to run on the basis of student registrations.

Prices

The price for each seminar is $450/day.

However, we are extending a special EarlyBird rate of only $225/day for those who register and provide charge-card details by 01/06/03, or until we run out of promotional seats, whichever occurs first. See the registration page for additional details.

Who Should Attend

The first three classes only require beginner-level Perl skills, but the fourth, Int. OO Perl, requires a prior understanding of basic OO Perl. Click on the titles of the individual seminars to see topic outlines and details on prerequisites.

Author & Instructor

Professional Background

Dr. Damian Conway holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is a Senior Research Fellow with the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

He is a member of the technical committee for The Perl Conference, a columnist for The Perl Journal, author of the book Object Oriented Perl, a senior member of the Perl 6 Design Team, and a popular lecturer on Perl topics.

Why Study with Damian?

Dr. Damian Conway is an extremely clever, creative, witty, and entertaining lecturer. He has been aptly characterized as a cross between Donald Knuth and Monty Python.
(if you know what I mean, nudge-nudge/wink-wink)

The ratings he receives from students are routinely about as high as they could possibly be, and his presentations and tutorials at The Perl Conference have become so popular that major changes in the scheduling and duration of that event have been necessitated to accommodate his audience!

So once again, why study with Damian? Because he's so smart, such a good teacher, and so knowledgeable about the latest developments in Perl, that you'll learn so much your head will hurt (but in a GOOD way!).

What are his Perlistic Achievements?

Dr. Conway is the author of numerous well-known Perl modules including: Class::Contract, Text::Autoformat, Parse::RecDescent, Text::Balanced, Lingua::EN::Inflect, Class::Multimethods, Switch, Quantum::Superpositions, NEXT, Filter::Simple, Attribute::Handlers, Inline::Files, and Coy (all available from CPAN.

Some of Damian's modules enhance Perl's basic capabilities in such significant ways and with such widespread applications that they have been accepted as core components of the language for subsequent versions.

Damian was the winner of the 1998, 1999, and 2000 Larry Wall Award competitions for the most practical Perl utility program. To give others a chance to compete, he graciously retired from this competition in 2001, and now serves as the judge for the new, eponymously named, Damian Conway Award.

Early on, Damian demonstrated a unique ability to rapidly produce hordes of world-class Perl modules that extended the language in significant, sometimes provocative, and often mind-blowingly outrageous ways. The response of the Perl community to this ostentatious display of Perl acumen and prolificity was a grass-roots fund-raising effort to hire Damian to work full-time on guiding Perl into the 21st century. So in early 2001, Damian received the first ever YAS Perl Development Grant and spent the year working on projects for the betterment of the Perl language and programming community. He is continuing this work in 2002 under a similar grant from The Perl Foundation, and Consultix is proud to be a major sponsor of this effort.

Consultix instructors, including Visiting Instructor Dr. Damian Conway, are renowned for their ability to communicate complex concepts in simple terms and to make the study of dry technical material enjoyable. We pride ourselves in providing training experiences that our customers rave about!

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