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Perl Authors Night at Powell Tech Books at OSCON

During OSCON, you can meet several Perl book authors for a panel discussion, questions and answers, and socializing at Powell's Technical Books on Tuesday, July 20 at 7 pm. Bring your Perl books to get them signed by your favorite...

Perl Authors Night at Powell Tech Books at OSCON

brian d foy at YAPC::EU - Aug 2-7 2010

Join brian (Learning Perl, Mastering Perl) as he presents his Effective Perl Programming class on August 7, 2010 at YAPC::EU in Pisa, Italy. Register for the class at the conference website.

brian d foy Presents "Reduce your risk by setting up your own CPAN" at the Nordic Perl Workshop - May 1 2010

Author brian d foy (Learning Perl, Mastering Perl) talks about how Perl programmers can manage the risk of using CPAN and its constant updates so they aren't constantly fighting the fires of module upgrades.

brian d foy Teaches Effective Perl Master Class at YAPC::NA 2010 - Jun 24-25 2010

Author brian d foy (Learning Perl, Mastering Perl) teaches a two day master class based on his latest book, Effective Perl Programming, Second Edition. The class is offered in conjunction with YAPC::NA, the annual Perl conference sponsored by Perl Mongers.

"Intermediate Perl" at the Portuguese Perl Workshop

I'll be at the Portuguese Perl Workshop on June 6-7. Before the conference, I'm also giving Stonehenge's "Intermediate Perl" master class on June 4-5. The master class format is a two-day, low-cost format that allows the trainer to attend the the...

Mastering Perl tutorial at OSCON

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How to Tell Your Perl Story (at OSCON)

Have you done something stunningly cool or staggeringly useful with Perl in the past year? Conference season will be here soon; it's time to consider giving a talk to your local monger group, a regional conference, or even OSCON. Perl track committee member brian d foy gives several guidelines to help you decide what to talk about and how to present it.

Perl 5.10 for Perl's 20th birthday

Perl 1 was released to the public by Larry Wall 20 years ago today. To celebrate, Perl5Porters have released Perl5.10, the latest stable version of Perl 5. Happy Birthday Perl!

Perl 5.10 isn’t just a bug fix version: it’s full of new features that I’m eager to use: named captures in regular expressions, state variables for subroutines, the defined-or operator, a switch statement (called given-when, though), a faster regex engine, and more. You can read more about the changes in perldelta.

The perl-5.10.0.tgz file is making its way to all of the CPAN mirrors, but if you can’t wait for that, you can its torrent file. Once it makes it to the CPAN mirrors, it will the new stable.tar.gz

This time around, Perl 5.10 installation will work the same on unix and Windows: Strawberry Perl is a Perl distribution for Windows that comes with a C-compiler and everything else you need to do it yourself. Give it a couple of days to catch up, though.

Chicago Perl Hackathon

The Chicago Perl Hackathon is Friday, Dec 14 to Sunday, Dec 16 at Hosteling International, 24 E. Congress Parkway in downtown Chicago (which is also in walking distance of most of the populoar tourist stuff). Meet other Perl people, work on other people’s projects, get other people to work on yours, or just hang out with other Perl people.

The week before the hackathon (Dec 10-14), Stonehenge is offering open-enrollment courses its Learning Perl and Intermediate Perl courses to the public, as well as two new courses, “Beginning Catalyst” and “Test Driven Development”. Take a course, then stick around for the hackathon to meet some Perl people. :)

2007 White Camel Awards

Allison Randal: Allison is at the center of the Perl
community. She’s been president of The Perl Foundation, a leader and manager
of various parts of the Perl 6 and Parrot efforts, as well a Perl author and
editor. Her latest contribution to Perl is version 2 of the Artistic License,
under which most open source Perl code, and Perl itself, is licensesd “under the
terms of Perl itself”.
Tim O’Reilly: You may think of
Tim as the guy who published
Programming perl and Learning Perl, but he also kick-started the
current form of the Perl community by giving it a place to come to together
once a year. O’Reilly & Associates started The Perl Conference in 1997.
Perl Mongers, the organization that helped start Perl users groups all over
the world, started at that first Perl Conference. O’Reilly Media has been
incredibly gracious and helpful to the Perl community.
Norbert E. Gr�ner: Norbert help start the
German Perl Workshop in XXX and now is involved in several of the
Perl conferences and workshops that take place in Europe. He’s the chair
of the YAPC::Europe committee.

Mastering Perl

This is the third in O'Reilly's series of landmark Perl tutorials, which started with Learning Perl, the bestselling introduction that taught you the basics of Perl syntax, and Intermediate Perl, which taught you how to create re-usable Perl software. Mastering Perl pulls everything together to show you how to bend Perl to your will.

The Perl Review, Summer 2007

The Summer 2007 issue of The
Perl Review is out, and it’s a special edition for the
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>This issue’s cover is some of the conference detritus I’ve
collected over the years.

The
>Summer 2007 issue of The Perl Review
is online and ready for download. Subscribers should have already received an email
telling them all about it.

In this issue:

Managing Modules Without Going Crazy — brian d foy
Carp & Friends — Alberto Simões
The Perl Debugger — Richard Foley
Tk Mega-widgets — Charles Colbourn
and other stuff

We’re always looking for people with good Perl stories to tell to, and you can
submit an article idea.