Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

The Perl Journal
Perl Mongers
Perl User Groups
Perl News
CPAN
Download Perl
Log in

[ Create a new account ]

Poll

Poll What Version of Perl Do You Use Most?
< 5.004
5.004 - 5.005
<= 5.6.1
5.6.2
5.8.0 - 5.8.1
5.8.2 - 5.8.6
5.8.7
6.x
[ Results | Polls ]
Comments:1 | Votes:188

Older Stuff


Older Articles
Yesterday's News

This Week on perl5-porters - 2-8 January 2006

posted by rafael on 2006.01.11 4:47   Printer-friendly
Summaries
5.8.8 and 5.9.3 are both terribly near to release. Who will win? Tune in next week!

News: Birmingham.pm Website Relaunch

posted by brian_d_foy on 2006.01.10 11:44   Printer-friendly
User Groups
barbie writes "Clear Your Cache! To start the new year off in style, Birmingham.pm have finally unveiled their new group website: http://birmingham.pm.org."

PerlNet: Australian & New Zealand Perl Portal

posted by brian_d_foy on 2006.01.10 1:37   Printer-friendly
News
pjf writes " PerlNet , the Australian and New Zealand Perl Portal, ends its beta-period today. The site aims at improving communication between Perl user groups, businesses, developers, and organisations. The collaborative site uses Mediawiki as a foundation, and all visitors are encouraged to edit. One of the goals of the site is to provide a directory of Australian and New Zealand businesses that support Perl. More information can be found at the press release or the main site. The current collaborative article of the week is Catalyst, and all use Perl; readers are invited to participate."

Re-scheduled: Inside-Out Objects Discussion NYC

posted by brian_d_foy on 2006.01.09 0:42   Printer-friendly
use Perl
kid51 writes "[Re-scheduled, as December meeting was cancelled due to transit strike.] Inside-out objects have drawn increasing attention in recent years, particularly since Damian Conway wrote about them in Perl Best Practices. Their pros and cons have been extensively discussed in recent Perlmonks threads. Perl Seminar NY, New York City's monthly Perl user group, is pleased to announce that Perlmonk contributor xdg -- known in what is alleged to be real life as David A Golden -- will be speaking on Inside-Out Objects at our Tuesday, January 17 meeting. Details: Perl Seminar NY. Tuesday, January 17, 6:15-8:15 pm. NYPC User Group Office Suite. 481 8 Ave (Ramada New Yorker Hotel building), btw West 34 & 35 Sts, Manhattan. Room 550."

News: Parrot 0.4.1 "Foghorn Leghorn" Released!

posted by brian_d_foy on 2006.01.09 0:07   Printer-friendly
Parrot
leo writes "On behalf of the Parrot team I'm proud to announce another monthly release of Parrot. I'd like to thank all involved people as well as our sponsors for supporting us.

Meeting Announcements: Mark Jason Dominus to speak at Chicago Perl Mongers

posted by brian_d_foy on 2006.01.07 21:20   Printer-friendly
User Groups
Andy Lester writes "Chicago Perl Mongers is proud to welcome Mark Jason Dominus, author of Higher-Order Perl, to the February meeting of Chicago.PM. Mark will be talking about the book he's currently working on, Perl Program Repair Shop and Red Flags. We'll be giving away a copy of Mark's book Higher-Order Perl as well as other swag. The meeting is February 6th, 2006, from 6-9. All are welcome. Please see the Chicago Perl Mongers meetings page for details."

This Week on perl5-porters - 26 December 2005 - 1 January 2006

posted by rafael on 2006.01.06 5:43   Printer-friendly
Summaries
A happy new year for Perl 5 porters and everybody. The holiday seemed to bring a lot of spare time for Perl 5 porters and they made good use of it. Hey, what those funny people are doing around in this mailing list?

News: Perlcast Interview with Chris Nandor

posted by davorg on 2006.01.06 5:41   Printer-friendly
News
jmcada writes "Perlcast just released an interview with Chris Nandor of Slashdot, Use Perl, etc. Enjoy!"

yapc: OSDC.TW Call for Paper and Participation

posted by brian_d_foy on 2006.01.05 14:07   Printer-friendly
yapc
hcchien writes "After the success of YAPC::Taipei 2004 & 2005 conference in Taiwan, the Taipei Perl Mongers this year will expand the scale of the conference, and proud to announce the "Open Source Developers' Conference in Taiwan (OSDC::Taiwan)". OSDC::Taiwan will be held from April 8-9, right after YAPC::Asia 2006 conference in Tokyo, Japan.

The topic of the very first OSDC::Taiwan is "Tools, Toys and Tips". We welcome contributions from all fields on topics related to the latest open source development tools, and present your new ideas to the communities. The OSDC::Taiwan organizing committee is now accepting presentation proposals.

OSDC::Israel Open Source Developers' Conference

posted by brian_d_foy on 2005.12.28 19:46   Printer-friendly
yapc Israel
gabor writes "OSDC::Israel::2006 is the Open Source Developers' Conference that is the result of our experience in three years of YAPC::Israel. The conference will take place between 26-28 February, 2006 in Netanya, Israel and feature keynote speaker: Larry Wall and special guest: Audrey "autrijus" Tang.

Before the conference between 21-25 February 2006 we are going to have a Pugs Hackathon with the participation of Autrijus, Larry, gaal, nothingmuch and probably others. If you are interested in joining the hackathon, please contact either Gaal or Gabor.

The list of talks is ready (slightly over 60% of the talks will be in English).

Don't miss the early-bird discounted registration.
<  Yesterday's News  >
Stories, comments, journals, and other submissions on use Perl; are Copyright 1998-2005, their respective owners.