The Perl Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the advancement of the Perl programming language, has announced that it has received a $100,000 donation from the craigslist Charitable Fund. The donation will be used by the Foundation to “improve the Perl 5 Core” and to sponsor Perl-related activities. Discussing the donation, Jim Buckmaster, craigslist CEO [...]

The Perl developers have updated the current stable development branch of Perl, version 5.14, with Perl 5.14.1. While the developers recommend that users of version 5.12 upgrade to 5.14 when convenient, it has not stopped them producing 5.12.4, a maintenance update for what was the previous stable development branch. Perl 5.14.1 is an update to [...]

As promised, the ‘Perl porters’ have now released this year’s stable version of the Perl programming language. Version 5.14 brings together more new features than were collected during the development and since the release of Perl 5.12 in April 2010. There are few major extensions like those found in Perl 5.10; instead Perl 5.14 consists [...]

I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My love and I, we looked amazed Upon the gory mystery. ‘Lie down, lie down!’ the people cried. ‘The great machine is history!’ My love and I, we ran away, The [...]

‘Please would you tell me,’ said Alice, a little timidly, for she was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, ‘why your cat grins like that?’ ‘It’s a Cheshire cat,’ said the Duchess, ‘and that’s why. Pig!’ She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite [...]

jesse writes “”Say I’m going in a swimming, I am. Don’t you wish you could? But of course you’d druther work wouldn’t you? Course you would!” Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: “What do you call work?” “Why ain’t that work?”

It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of Perl 5.11.2. This is the third DEVELOPMENT release in the 5.11.x series leading to a stable release of Perl 5.12.0. You can find a list of high-profile changes in this release in the file “perl5112delta.pod” inside the distribution. You can download the 5.11.2 release from: [...]

It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of Perl 5.11.1. This is the second DEVELOPMENT release in the 5.11.x series leading to a stable release of Perl 5.12.0. You can find a list of high-profile changes in this release in the file “perl5111delta.pod” inside the distribution. You can (or will shortly be able [...]

“Whispers of an “evil power” were heard in lines at dairy shops, in streetcars, stores, arguments, kitchens, suburban and long-distance trains, at stations large and small, in dachas and on beaches. Needless to say, truly mature and cultured people did not tell these stories about an evil power’s visit to the capital. In fact, they [...]

The Perl 5 developer team is pleased to announce the Perl Release 5.10.1, the first maintenance release of Perl 5.10. The CPAN ftp multiplexor will pick a mirror close to you. You can download the source in bz2 format (11121414 bytes). sha1sum for the tarball: 98b762b5cd4fb76dd354dfa5ba0d21bc2acacaf2 perl-5.10.1.tar.bz2 md5sum for the tarball: 82400c6d34f7b7b43d0196c76cd2bbb1 perl-5.10.1.tar.bz2 5.10.1 is [...]

“The Perl 5 developer team is pleased to announce the Perl Release 5.8.9, the ninth maintenance release of Perl 5.8. The CPAN ftp multiplexor will pick a mirror close to you, if you select either bz2 (11121414 bytes) or gz (13954888 bytes) here; or, you can choose your own from one of the 244 CPAN [...]

“Perl 5.8.9 Release Candidate 2 has been uploaded to CPAN. This is a maintenance release for perl 5.8.x, providing bug fixes and integrating module updates from CPAN. Download the source from ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.9-RC2.tar.bz2 (or as .tar.gz ); read what’s changed in perldelta.pod. ” Please report any problems you encounter, especially bugs introduced since 5.8.8. Whenever possible, [...]

olegm writes “The Minneapolis Perl Mongers are organizing a one-day Perl workshop in Minneapolis on February 07, 2009, and I hope some of you can attend. We’re also working on a hackathon the day after and a Perl class taught by Brian d Foy of Stonehenge Consulting on the day before. These extras will be [...]

The Perl Foundation grants committee received 15 proposals during the third call for grant proposals for 2008. These proposals are published for public discussion. You are invited to comment each proposal about its relevance and objectives. During the month of July we received the following grant proposals: * Squatting On Everything * Rufus * The [...]

As reported recently, Adam has made progress with his Perl on a Stick project. In fact, he’s made enough progress that we’re able to offer 1G USB drives loaded with Strawberry Perl here at OSCON for $15. We have them at the TPF Booth, so stop by and get one. http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/07/perl_on_a_stick_at_oscon.html Read more of this [...]

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!” Read more of this story at use Perl.

I was told last week that my current contract won’t be extended when it finishes at the end of this month. I’m obviously looking for a new contract, but I’m also investigating another option. I’m thinking of running some commercial, public Perl courses in London at the end of July. The plan is basically that [...]

Every year, at OSCON, the White Camels are presented. If you look at the previous winners, you’ll notice that these are mostly unsung heroes, like previous awardee Eric Cholet, the human moderator of so many Perl mailing lists, or Jay Hannah, one of the people running pm.org (if you ever created/maintained a pm group, chances [...]