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Perl on Google's App Engine
Artur Bergman discusses Perl on Google's App Engine, while Brad Fitzpatrick announced Perl on App Engine. The important information is that Google will support the project only if the Perl community does most of the hard work. (This position seems reasonable to me; gift horses and all that.)
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White Camel Awards 2008
jmcada writes "The White Camel Awards for 2008 were just presented at OSCON. This year's winners are Jacinta Richardson, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, and Gabor Szabo. The winners have all made significant contributions to the Perl community. Congratulations to the winners!"
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YAPC:::EU 2009 should be in Lisbon
I've put together a video from several members of the Perl community giving the YAPC::EU committee 10 reasons YAPC::EU 2009 should be in Lisbon. These aren't the sort of things that they'll find in the proposal, but I hope they'll consider it when they vote!
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Far East Perl
We have changed the date of Russian Far East Perl Workshop, moving it one week further. The new date is 26 September, it's Friday.We joined our event to the Coastal Internet-Forum (PRIF-2008), which happens to happen on 22-26th of September, the dates very close to our initial dates of the workshop.We are still a separate event, and after joining to PRIF we gain in having a venue equipped with desktop computers, projector and internet access. And it also potentially can attract more people for the workshop.Thanks to Linux Centre & Linux Format for suggesting to join the event in Vladivostok.
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Madrid.pm technical meeting today
It is today at 7:30 pm in Barquillo 11, Madrid. Diego Kuperman is going to talk about Moose and I am going to talk about advanced Perl sorting techniques and the Sort::Key modules. Everybody is invited but the capacity is limited so get in touch with any of the group members first if you decide to come! The details are here (in Spanish).
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YAPC::Europe 2008 Payment Now Open
We finally got the last details working with Paypal and we were satisfied with the test results.So the YAPC::Europe 2008 payment is now open. http://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/purchase So get your ticket now and be shown in bold on the website, we look very much forward to seeing you in Copenhagen for the 9th. European YAPC.
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Moosifying logging
Moose is great, at least the parts that I've discovered so far. It gives a very clean interface for working with OO in perl. After some playing around and discovering the main concepts behind moose and failing to find a logging role using my favorite logging system log4perl I sat down an did a little coding (it is really just a few lines) and uploaded to CPAN as MooseX::Log::Log4perl. If you want to get some more info read it up in my blog...
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RT 3.8 is now available
Today, we're releasing RT 3.8.0, the first major upgrade to RT in about two years. Over the past two years, we've been working hard to improve RT. We're very proud of RT 3.8 and hope you'll find it a worthy upgrade.
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Parrot 0.6.4
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.6.4 "St. Vincent Amazon." Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running dynamic languages.
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Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2008 website is up.
rblackwe writes "The website for the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2008 is open. Please stop by."
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Four master classes at YAPC::EU
Now that the YAPC::EU 2008 website is live, you can register for the master classes.This year there are 4 one-day classes. Two are before YAPC, and two are after YAPC. All classes are 900DKK (about $US190 or €120) and run from 10:00 to 16:00. Tuesday, August 12 Test Automation with Perl - Gabor SzaboPerl Teach In - Dave Cross Saturday, August 16 Mastering Perl - brian d foy Sunday, August 17 Practical Test Driven Development - Josh McAdamsMaster classes are low-cost classes taught by experienced instructors, and are primarily designed to make it possible for them to travel to the conference. Even if you don't want to take a class, tell a friend about them!
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ActiveState's responds to 10 myths of open source
ActiveState has put together a free white paper on "10 Myths About Running Open Source Software in Your Business". It's a fair look at open source for the manager level.They don't come out as open source zealots. There are certainly some myths that come from both sides. The top three myths they address are: You have to choose between Open Source Software and Propietary SoftwareOpen Source Software is FreeImplementing Open Source Software is Only About Saving MoneyI like the last myth the best: Your Business is not Running Open Source
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Perl and Cloud Computing
I just release an interview with Frank Speiser, who is leading several projects related to Perl and Cloud Computing Services, such as Amazon's EC2. If you are curious about this new trend in web application development, please take a look and send me your comments.
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YAPC::Faces
Conferences are attractive because you receive a goodies bag there :-) I know what is the most useful thing which should appear there. This is a face list (or, hmm, face sheet) with photos of attendees, their names, nicknames and PM-groups. All printed in colour on hard paper. Might be cool, isn't it? Especially at previous YAPC of 2007 name aimed to socialize people.
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YAPC::Faces
Conferences are attractive because you receive a goodies bag there :-) I know what is the most useful thing which should appear there. This is a face list (or, hmm, face sheet) with photos of attendees, their names, nicknames and PM-groups. All printed in colour on hard paper. Might be cool, isn't it? Especially at previous YAPC of 2007 name aimed to socialize people.
Read more of this story at use Perl.
ActiveState's responds to 10 myths of open source
ActiveState has put together a free white paper on "10 Myths About Running Open Source Software in Your Business". It's a fair look at open source for the manager level.They don't come out as open source zealots. There are certainly some myths that come from both sides. The top three myths they address are: You have to choose between Open Source Software and Propietary SoftwareOpen Source Software is FreeImplementing Open Source Software is Only About Saving MoneyI like the last myth the best: Your Business is not Running Open Source
Read more of this story at use Perl.
Perl and Cloud Computing
I just release an interview with Frank Speiser, who is leading several projects related to Perl and Cloud Computing Services, such as Amazon's EC2. If you are curious about this new trend in web application development, please take a look and send me your comments.
Read more of this story at use Perl.
Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2008 website is up.
rblackwe writes "The website for the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2008 is open. Please stop by."
Read more of this story at use Perl.
Four master classes at YAPC::EU
Now that the YAPC::EU 2008 website is live, you can register for the master classes.This year there are 4 one-day classes. Two are before YAPC, and two are after YAPC. All classes are 900DKK (about $US190 or €120) and run from 10:00 to 16:00. Tuesday, August 12 Test Automation with Perl - Gabor SzaboPerl Teach In - Dave Cross Saturday, August 16 Mastering Perl - brian d foy Sunday, August 17 Practical Test Driven Development - Josh McAdamsMaster classes are low-cost classes taught by experienced instructors, and are primarily designed to make it possible for them to travel to the conference. Even if you don't want to take a class, tell a friend about them!
Read more of this story at use Perl.
RT 3.8 is now available
Today, we're releasing RT 3.8.0, the first major upgrade to RT in about two years. Over the past two years, we've been working hard to improve RT. We're very proud of RT 3.8 and hope you'll find it a worthy upgrade.
Read more of this story at use Perl.
Parrot 0.6.4
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.6.4 "St. Vincent Amazon." Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running dynamic languages.
Read more of this story at use Perl.
Moosifying logging
Moose is great, at least the parts that I've discovered so far. It gives a very clean interface for working with OO in perl. After some playing around and discovering the main concepts behind moose and failing to find a logging role using my favorite logging system log4perl I sat down an did a little coding (it is really just a few lines) and uploaded to CPAN as MooseX::Log::Log4perl. If you want to get some more info read it up in my blog...
Read more of this story at use Perl.
Madrid.pm technical meeting today
It is today at 7:30 pm in Barquillo 11, Madrid. Diego Kuperman is going to talk about Moose and I am going to talk about advanced Perl sorting techniques and the Sort::Key modules. Everybody is invited but the capacity is limited so get in touch with any of the group members first if you decide to come! The details are here (in Spanish).
Read more of this story at use Perl.
YAPC::Europe 2008 Payment Now Open
We finally got the last details working with Paypal and we were satisfied with the test results.So the YAPC::Europe 2008 payment is now open. http://www.yapceurope2008.org/ye2008/purchase So get your ticket now and be shown in bold on the website, we look very much forward to seeing you in Copenhagen for the 9th. European YAPC.
Read more of this story at use Perl.
File::ShareDir 0.99_01 released
I've just uploaded the redesigned File::ShareDir, which should both resolve the various problems with the original design, AND (hopefully) be fully back-compatible with old previously-installed files.Any testing people can do would be appreciated.To install files into the new paths, please use the svn version of Module::Install from http://svn.ali.as/.In short, previously there was some confusion between module files and distribution files, and had packlist-related problems in some areas.The new install paths look something like .../auto/share/dist/Distribution-Name/test_file.txt
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mod_perl Users Survey
Reposted from the mod_perl user list, original posting by Adam Prime At the impromptu mod_perl BOF at YAPC::NA, Fred Moyer and myself hacked together a short mod_perl survey to help identify the current needs of mod_perl users. It was inspired by the Perl survey done last year by Kirrily Robert. (http://perlsurvey.org). If you read dev@ and already filled this out, please don't do it again.The survey seeks to attain these goals: Determine the current breakdown of mod_perl users in terms of what versions, modules, and platforms mod_perl users are using.Give mod_perl users a chance to provide feedback to the development team on where they think mod_perl development should be headed.Please take a few minutes and fill it out. Neither of us are statisticians, and there are plenty of questions that haven't been asked, but we only get 10 questions for free with survey monkey, so we've done what we could with our non-existant resources.
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Spanish "brian's Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem"
Hugo Salgado translated "brian's Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem" into a spanish version.Also, Renée Bäcker tells me that Hilko Bengen finished the german version.Now, since YAPC is in Copenhagen, someone needs to make a Danish version.
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A new CPAN Testers Domain
I'm not quite sure why no-one has ever thought of it before, but the other week I had the strange urge to see what website a particular domain resolved to. It didn't resolve to anything and I was quite surprised to find it available and not being used for other dubious purposes, so I set about registering the domain. It seemed an obvious domain to use for the collection of CPAN Testers websites, so having sent out a few emails last week, I have set up DNS entries for the existing websites, just to make life a little easier for everyone to remember them all. The original domains are not changing, so you can still use those, but if you ever find yourself talking to someone about CPAN Testers and finding it difficult to remember the right URL, the new sub-domains might make it a little easier to remember them. So, with limited fanfare and bunting, I give you: www.cpantesters.org - CPAN Testers Reports wiki.cpantesters.org - CPAN Testers Wiki stats.cpantesters.org - CPAN Testers Statistics deps.cpantesters.org - CPAN Dependencies matrix.cpantesters.org - CPAN Testers Matrix pass.cpantesters.org - CPAN Testers PASS MatrixIn addition you can also send mail to discuss@cpantesters.org, which will be routed through to cpan-testers-discuss@perl.org. All other mail to that domain will be routed through to my personal address, and will be subject to my very aggressive mail filters ;) If there are other mail redirections worth adding, please let me know.
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Strawberry Perl Portable 5.10.0 Alpha 1 Released
http://strawberryperl.com/download/strawberry-perl-portable-5.10.0-alpha-1.zip This is the first release of Strawberry Perl Portable Edition for Mobile Devices and Flash Drives (or whatever the hell it ends up being called).Firstly, please note this is extremely alpha. In fact it's SO alpha that it's basically just whatever is on my test flash drive, zipped up with no packaging at all.To install, simply unzip it absolutely anywhere you like.The code that implements portability can be found in the Portable:: modules, and the bootstrapping mechanism involves hooks in Config.pm, CPAN/Config.pm, File/HomeDir.pm and CPAN::Mini::Portable.To run a Perl program, invoke it via "X:\yourpath\perl\bin\perl scriptname.pl".CPAN installs SHOULD work.The .bat file program launches, however, do NOT work, so don't even try.That said, feel free to play around, break, and critique it.Let me know how it goes. Being VERY alpha, I do expect things to break.Thus endeth the implementation phase of my Perl on a Stick grant.The next phase is the build phase, where I do the necesary hacking to be able to generate Portable editions via the Perl::Dist toolchain.
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Two proposals for YAPC::Europe::2009
The YEF Venue Committee would like to announce that we have received two very interesting bids, from two great cities, to host YAPC::Europe 2009! The two capitals, Moscow and Lisbon, have submitted very strong proposals and the YEF Venue Commitee have a very hard task ahead of them in deciding who will have the honour of hosting the next YAPC::Europe. Over the next few weeks the committee will take a very close look at the proposals, clarifying any issue we raise with the prospective organisers, before we make a final decision for the host of YAPC::Europe 2009.The public announcement for the location of YAPC::Europe 2009 will be given during YAPC::Europe 2008 in Copenhagen. So if you want to be among the first to know where to go in 2009, come to Copenhagen this summer! Thomas Klausner, on behalf of the YEF Venue Committee. Original announcement
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"brian's Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem" in German
It looks like my Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem is being incrementally translated into german through a wiki. If you have the skills, maybe you can help them finish it.
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Searching Perl Mailing Lists with MarkMail
A couple of months ago, MarkLogic imported a bunch of Perl mailing lists into their MarkMail service. After only a couple of minutes playing with the service, I really liked it. Instead of making a query, getting results, then trying again, MarkMail lets me start with a broad topic and refine the search by looking at intermediate results.I wanted to find out more. For The Perl Review, I interviewed Jason Hunter, the Principal Technologist at Mark Logic, to find out more. I also made a screencast of me using the service (as well as pounding my laptop with a mallet).You'll see that Jason listed some corpus sizes for different subjects. Although Perl has half a million messages, so other subjects are huge too. We can boost Perl's numbers by getting more lists into MarkMail.Although MarkMail initially imported 75 of the Perl lists, they want to import more. In the interview, Jason has instructions on what to do. Basically, you write to them and tell them to import your list. If you have dead, historical lists, they can import those archives too. Easy peasy.
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2008Q3 Call for Grant Proposals
The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in August 2008.In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI and Strawberry Perl, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others (just check http://www.perlfoundation.org/grants for more references).You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and the means and ability to accomplish it, we want to hear from you!Do you have something that could benefit the Perl community but just need that little extra help? Submit a grant proposal by July 31.As a general rule, a properly formatted grant proposal is more likely to be approved if it meets the following criteria It has widespread benefit to the Perl community or a large segment of it. We have reasons to believe that you can accomplish your goals. We can afford it.To submit a proposal see the guidelines at http://www.perlfoundation.org/how_to_write_a_proposal and TPF rules of operation at http://www.perlfoundation.org/rules_of_operation. Then send your proposal to tpf-proposals @ perl-foundation.org.On August 1st, proposals will be made available publicly (on this blog) for public discussion, as it happened in the previous round. So, please make it clear in your proposal if it should not be public. Note that accepted but not funded proposals in the previous round do not need to be re-submitted.
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Far East Perl call for attendees
I am happy to announce the Second Russian Perl Workshop which is called "Far East Perl" and takes place on 13th of September in Vladivostok.Official website was just launched: http://fe2008.perlrussia.ru/.Vladivostok is a city in the far far Eastern part of Russia, and is close to Japan, Korea and China. http://perlrussia.ru/img/fe2008-map.gif Local organization forces of the workshop are Vladivostok.pm and CSmile company.
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ADMIN: rt.cpan.org and misdirected mail
Just as a heads up, we've discovered that rt.cpan.org has started to send out mail about bugs to CPAN authors who aren't actually maintainers of the distribution.The bug is the unintended consequence of some work we've been doing to make rt.cpan.org faster and easier to use.I could claim that it's a cool new feature to help better publicize issues in CPAN distributions, but I can't quite bring myself to lie like that.We're working on the issue and will get it sorted out as quickly as we possibly can. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
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This Week on perl5-porters - 14-20 June 2008
This Week on perl5-porters - 14-20 June 2008 David Nicol: Does pushing all exceptions to @@ whenever $@ gets assigned to break anything?Abigail: In theory, it could, as @@ is a "normal" array that can be used as such. But I doubt anything serious will break. I'd say anyone that uses a punctuation variable that currently has no special meaning does so at his/her own risk, and doesn't have the right to complain if it does get special meaning.-- Abigail, suggesting that a little backwards compatibility breakage from time to time can be good for the soul.
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