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"Intermediate Perl" at the Portuguese Perl Workshop
May 20 2008
I'll be at the Portuguese Perl Workshop on June 6-7. Before the conference, I'm also giving Stonehenge's "Intermediate Perl" master class on June 4-5. The master class format is a two-day, low-cost format that allows the trainer to attend the the... read morePerl 5.10 for Perl's 20th birthday
December 18 2007
Perl 1 was released to the public by Larry Wall 20 years ago today. To celebrate, Perl5Porters have released Perl5.10, the latest stable version of Perl 5. Happy Birthday Perl! Perl 5.10 isn’t just a bug fix version: it’s full of new features that I’m eager to use: named captures in… read moreNovember 27 2007
The Chicago Perl Hackathon is Friday, Dec 14 to Sunday, Dec 16 at Hosteling International, 24 E. Congress Parkway in downtown Chicago (which is also in walking distance of most of the populoar tourist stuff). Meet other Perl people, work on other people’s projects, get other people to work on… read moreJuly 24 2007
Allison Randal Allison is at the center of the Perl community. She’s been president of The Perl Foundation, a leader and manager of various parts of the Perl 6 and Parrot efforts, as well a Perl author and editor. Her latest contribution to Perl is version 2 of the Artistic License, under which most… read moreJune 22 2007
The Summer 2007 issue of The Perl Review is out, and it’s a special edition for the href="http://perlworkshop.dk/">YAPC::NA sponsored by href="http://www.livetext.com">LiveText (who are looking for good Perl programmers in the Chicago area). href="http://www.theperlreview.com/Images/covers/v3i3-cover-large.png" >This issue’s cover is some of the conference detritus I’ve collected over the years. The >Summer 2007 issue of The Perl… read more2007 White Camel nomination process open
April 25 2007
It’s time to nominate recipients for the White Camel award, which recognizes non-technical achievement in Perl. Coding is easy, but the people who make the hard slog to support the community and the continued usefulness of Perl are rare and valuable, just like white camels. I invented the White Camel Award… read morePerl's Business::ISBN now handles Bookland
March 14 2007
I’m a couple of months late for mandatory ISBN-13 support, but I’ve uploaded Business::ISBN-2.00_01 so people who depend on the module can look at the new interface and make comments on it. It supports ISBN-13 seamlessy. Most of the internals are completely new: this was my second-ever module, and I… read moreMarch 12 2007
The next issue of The Perl Review is out, and it’s a special edition for the Nordic Perl Workshop! Not only that, the PDF-only price is now only $7. Subscribe now to beat the price increase for US postage rate increases in May. The Spring 2007 issue of The Perl Review… read moreKomodo 4.0 Extensibility Challenge
March 06 2007
Komodo 4.0 now allows XPI extensions, the same thing that Firefox has. Create something cool for the Komodo 4.0 Extensibility Challenge and you could win some money or prizes. The contest is open until April 1 (no, really), and you can use the 21-day free preview of Komodo to do… read moreMarch 06 2007
It’s almost summer again, so it’s time for students to figure out what to do with all that free time? Want to work in open source but need some scratch to keep you in ramen and Mountain Dew? Let Google give you a big bag of money to do it… read moreFebruary 28 2007
The mini-CPAN, a smaller version of the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network that includes just the latest versions and excludes a few big things, is now about 700 MB on my machine. That means that it can’t quite fit onto a single CD, at least without removing parts of it. What… read moreJanuary 04 2007
A while ago I wrote the Learning Perl Study Guide for O’Reilly. It’s 64 pages of additional exercises and answers for the end-of-chapter exercises in Learning Perl, 4th Edition. At the moment it’s available through Pearson educational channels as a bundle with Learning Perl. At Stonehenge we use these guides… read moreJuly 26 2006
The white camel is a special sort of beast. You’ve seen pictures of camels. and they were probably brown. Every so often, a white camel appears, and camelherders consider them to be extra special and more valuable. The Perl community has its own valuable members who go far beyond their… read moreThe Perl Review interviews Curtis "Ovid" Poe
July 20 2006
Earlier this summer, I interviewed Curtis “Ovid” Poe about Perl Hacks, grants from The Perl Foundation, logic programming, and his effort to make CGI programming less tedoius and more productive through Class::CGI. Now you can read his answers! read moreAlso find brian d on:
