YAPC::Europe 2008 in Copenhagen is fast approaching, and the deadline for proposals for next year’s conference is not too far away (June 30th), but I’ve been thinking of events even further in the future. With the Perl Monger census that Dave Cross is organising, I’m hoping it might identify some of the groups that could [...]

“In two weeks (Feb 29th), the Dutch Perl Workshop will take place in the StayOkay Youth Hostel in Arnhem, The Netherlands. This meeting is primarily targeted on Perl users in The Netherlands and Belgium. The program is now available, and by accident about half of the talks are in English. So even if you are [...]

This week has seen a turmoil of emotions surrounding Perl 6. (Just take a look at the last articles here at use.perl and perlbuzz.) This entry is just to gladly announce that in this very moment (Dec 28 2007 18:30 GMT-0200) three microarticles of the series on Perl 6 operators are in The Hot 25 [...]

In preparation to my talk on the Israeli Perl Workshop next week I have written 4 micro articles about some of the new features in Perl 5.10 What’s new in Perl 5.10? say, //, state Smart Matching in Perl 5.10 Switching in Perl 5.10 Regular Expressions in Perl 5.10 Read more of this story at [...]

After over a year since the last release, it is with equal parts of pride and relief that I present Strawberry Perl 5.10, the next major release of the Vanilla Perl Project’s flagship Perl distribution. This release represents the beginning of the third generation of release code. The first generation was a simple build script, [...]

On December 18, 1987, Larry Wall released Perl 1 to the public. That means today is the end of Perl’s 20th year. On Perl’s 16th birthday, Richard Clamp gave us Perl 1. Rumor has it that this birthday, Perl5Porters is giving us Perl 5.10, the best Perl 5 yet. The Windy City Perl Mongers are [...]

Greg McCarroll writes “London Perl Workshop 2007 So it’s that time of year again, the nights are growing long, the mornings are growing coldand people who should know better once again decide to organize a conference. That’s rightit’s time for this year’s London Perl Workshop. So let’s get down to the details, because wehaven’t much [...]

Yeah, me too. But I’m a capitalist, so I like to see what people are writing checks for. As I’m fed up with the various unsubstantiated claims, I’ve whipped up a little graphic of job posts on Dice that will hopefully cheer you up. I’ll try to keep it updated regularly. If nothing else, it’ll [...]

“The schedule for The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop has been posted. Two days of talk-goodness plus a hackathon! The deadline for discounted hotel rates has been extended to Monday, September 17th.” Read more of this story at use Perl.

The conference site for the Belgian Perl Workshop is online. You will find (allmost) all information about: practical info about the conference how to submit a talk how to register It won’t be possible to attend the conference without registering online. Places are limitted. So, you’ve been warned Read more of this story at use [...]

“The PAUSE administrators are planning to do a little house keeping on the CPAN Modules List. We intend to remove old namespace reservations which have been registered with the modules mailing list but for which there never has been an actual implementation on CPAN. This will apply to all unused registrations from May 2007 and [...]

“Frozen Perl 2008 will be a one-day workshop in sunny Minneapolis on Saturday, February 16, 2008. We’ve officially opened up our Call for Speakers, and we’re looking forward to your submissions. Our workshop theme is “Perl in Practice”, so practical submissions are encouraged.” Read more of this story at use Perl.

So it is finally public, next year’s YAPC::Europe will be in Copenhagen/Denmark – I am eagerly awaiting the return of my fellow mongers who are in Vienna. I am green with envy and I have seen the movie of the pre-conference meet up and I am hanging out in the IRC channel, but is not [...]

The 10th German Perl-Workshop will take place from 13.02.2008 to 15.02.2008 in Erlangen, Germany. As always we welcome proposals for talks or tutorials from international participants. See the Call For Papers for the details. The deadline for proposals is Monday, 29.10.2007. use Perl

Mike Schilli writes “I’ve taped some of the Perl Lightning Talks at OSCON and put them on YouTube: Andy Lester on “ack” and why scripts should be called programs Tim Bunce on DBD::Gofer Tim Bunce on DashProfiler Ask Bjorn Hansen on qpsmtpd Julian Cash on MoveMyData Michael Schwern on brewing tea Vani Raja on YUI [...]

Perl 5.9.5, the latest development release of Perl, has been uploaded to the CPAN. For a list of what’s new in this version since the 5.9.4 release, see the perldelta manpage. Here are the administrative details: file: $CPAN/authors/id/R/RG/RGARCIA/perl-5.9.5.tar.gz size: 15562121 bytes md5: caef13b075995b508085667d4011b8d6 Perl 5.9.5 aims to be the last development release of Perl 5 [...]

“Three and a half years ago, Perl.com published an article of mine describing the very beginnings of the OpenGuides project–an open source web application written in Perl, initially aimed at overcoming the limitations of the UseMod software. “From this modest beginning, we’ve developed a complete wiki toolkit called, unsurprisingly, Wiki::Toolkit and a custom-built web application, [...]