If you are in the Chicago area (or fancy a bit of travel) Damian Conway will be teaching two weeks of Perl classes in Chicago (Sept 15-26) [1]. The classes range from topics such as object-oriented programming, module design, parsing, regular expressions, and Perl6.
Damian Conway has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is best known in the Perl community as being the author of Object Oriented Perl [2], creator of several CPAN modules (Parse::RecDescent, Filter::Simple, Text::Autoformat, Lingua::Romana::Perligata), and is also one of the guiding hands behind the design and implementation of Perl6. Apart from being very knowledgeable, and a great instructor, Damian also has a gifted sense of humor which make his classes a lot of fun [3]. The classes will be well worth the cost of admission if you are able to get the funds. //Ed [1] http://chicago.pm.org/damian.html [2] http://www.manning.com/Conway/ [3] http://www.yetanother.org/damian/damian.html
