Birmingham Perl Mongers is now ten years old. On September 8th 2010, or normal social meeting became a bit of a party. We even had cake thanks to Penny and JJ, which went down so well there nearly wasn't any left to save for Penny to have later. Colin and Peter joined us from MiltonKeynes.pm too, so we had a good turn out on the night. Here's to the next ten years :)

In September 2000, Mike Bissett and Barbie held the very first Birmingham.pm Social Meeting. Nine years later we're still going, and still a vibrant group of Perl Mongers. On the 9th September, to celebrate our 9th birthday, we had a birthday social at The Dragon Inn on Hurst Street. All the regulars and a few surprise visitors were in attendance, and by all accounts everyone had a good night. Now to plan our 10th birthday!

A revisit to see the London Perl Mongers as part of the Birmingham.pm World tour. This time around it was one of their technical meetings. Some great presentations from Tara, Leo, Léon, Dave and Ovid.

With a view to checkout The New Inn as a potential Christmas Social venue, we headed over to Harborne for this month's social meeting. A great pub, with a friendly quiet atmosphere. LUGRadio presenter, Chris Proctor joined us for the evening, and helped to swell the numbers for the night. Met with everyone's approval so we've now booked it for the Christmas Social :)

Although part of the Birmingham.pm World tour, it was also London.pm's 10th Annivesary meeting. JJ and I went along to pass on Birmingham.pm's best wishes :)

For the September technical meeting, Mike Kemp came along and introduced us to his new Open Source project called Nanshe.

Birmingham.pm celebrates their 8th birthday. JJ brought a card :)

Another visit to Milton Keynes as part of our Birmingham.pm World Tour. This time around it was a technical meeting, where featuring Dave Cross, Robbie Bow, Barbie and Tom Hukins.

This time around Simon join us on the tour, presenting his iPhone/MMS talk, together with Barbie presenting a Testing with Perl talk and JJ explaining a couple of solutions from the Microsoft Scripting Games.

Once again we visited our friends over in Wolverhampton, with JJ presenting his Microsoft Scripting Games talk, and Barbie presenting Understanding Malware. The Scripting Games talk went down well, with Aq writing a Python version of the voting game. Adam really enjoyed the Malware talk, an felt he had to apologise for all the interruptions, much to the amusement of everyone else :) A good night.