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A quiet week with a bit of action at many corners of Perl development, including some shiny new ones like Lamp. Improvement to docs and threads on Switch, Module::Build modules are among the discussion themes.

Ben Laurie has been doing some work on adding capabilities to Perl. He wrote about the project in his blog yesterday, and the project is online at http://caperl.links.org/. Sounds like an interesting idea.

gabor writes "OSDC::Israel::2006 is the Open Source Developers' Conference that grew out from the previous three YAPC::Israels by copying the idea from Australia.

The conference will take place between 26-28 February, 2006 in Netanya, Israel.
Keynote speaker: Larry Wall
Special guest: Autrijus Tang

Before the conference between 21-25 February 2006 we are planning a Pugs Hackathon with the participation of Autrijus, Larry, gaal, nothingmuch and probably others.

The registration form for the conference is ready and we are waiting for your talk proposals till the submission dead-line on 10th December 2005
Submit your talk now"

bepi writes " Pisa.pm is proud to announce VII Pisa.pm meeting, aka 'XMas 05 Meeting.' The meeting is aimed at Perl users, professionals and hobbyists alike, to aid in the exchange of information and in the building of a stronger Perl community in Tuscany, Italy."

jmcada writes "Recently, Perlcast interviewed Richard Foley about his book "Pro Perl Debugging". In the interview Richard talks about the often forgotten Perl debugger."

fhew writes "You can now re-live the excitement from YAPC::NA::2005 because the Toronto Perl Mongers, YAPC, and me, are happy to finally announce the availability of the proceedings from YAPC::NA::2005 held in Toronto."

muttley writes "Despite heroic efforts to completely sabotage itself the London Perl Workshop is go for main engines and the talk schedule is available on the website.

There's an eclectic mix of talks ranging from Parrot and WWW::Mechanise to Jos Bouman's intriguingly named 'Barely Legal XXX Perl' and the legendary Mark Jason Dominus.

On top of that you'll also have a chance to hear about how the creators of the award winning MighTyV website knocked up their Catalyst based site in just 4 weeks.

And, due to some rather disturbing interest in the last use.perl story about the LPW I will actually be bringing along a Twister set. There are some weird people in the Perl World."

The crackdown. A number of bugs were fixed this week, possibly obsolete code was scrutinised, Hugo patched the regexp engine and Perl on Windows was improved.

The next issue of The Perl Review comes out December 1. Check your email for your renewal notice.

Coming up in this issue:

• The Seven Sins of OO Programming -- chromatic
• Haskell for Perlers -- Frank Antonsen
• PerlWar -- Yanick Champoux
• Hash Anti-Patterns -- Alberto Simões
• reviews of "Pro Perl Parsing" and "Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook", Perl Mongers News, TPF News, and more...

Garrett Goebel writes " I've created a discussion list for people interested in applying the style and techniques Damian Conway recommends in Perl Best Practices."