May 2009 Archives

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• Nominate someone for a 2009 White Camel Award
• If things aren't happening in Perl, it's not for lack of money:
• Perl Crash Course: Pragmas, Perl Modules, and CPAN
• How has it taken me this long in my Perl life to use List::Util?
• The FAIL 100 shows practical projects for your Monger group
• Questions five ways: Static code analysis & testing
• Italian Perl Workshop

These links are collected from the Perlbuzz Twitter feed. If you have suggestions for news bits, please mail me at andy@perlbuzz.com.

• Perl people are great!
• Elliot Shank's new Perl blog
• Parrot and Rakudo Perl 6 get faster
• Dave Cross is now blogging at
• How to handle video from YAPC::NA 2008?
• David Wheeler's slides for Unit Test Your Database
• Barbie has redesigned all the CPAN Testers websites

The following are collected from the Perlbuzz Twitter feed.

• Finding circular reference leaks in Perl http://bit.ly/Pg9V3
• How to create drag-n-drop Strawberry Perl programs http://bit.ly/13yVW7
• Could the CPAN become self-aware? http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/38945
• Jeffrey Thalhammer on Perlcast: Update on Perl::Critic http://bit.ly/171UfR
• Never trust web form data. http://bit.ly/EAhqF
• Top ten great things about Moose http://bit.ly/139SHg
• The language with the happiest users. COBOL is at the bottom. http://bit.ly/HcvKi
• Basic unit testing with Perl http://bit.ly/dVDe2
• RT @rakudoperl Rakudo now supports WALK, callwith, callsame, nextwith, nextsame, as well as updated versions of .wrap and .unwrap. jnthn++
• The CPAN's new clothes http://rassie.org/archives/250
• Learn mad database skillz at YAPC::NA 2009 http://bit.ly/10FyWq
• An introductory presentation to MooseX::Declare http://bit.ly/t6vy0

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• Examples of Modern Perl http://blog.timbunce.org/2009/04/27/examples-of-modern-perl/
• Fred Moyer releases App::PM::Announce for announcing PM meetings to LinkedIn and Meetup http://search.cpan.org/~rkrimen/App-PM-Announce- ...
• Help send a new Perl programmer to YAPC::EU http://www.send-a-newbie.com/
• Why John Napiorkowski uses Moose http://tinyurl.com/dyaa6b
• Perl saved my vacation! http://tinyurl.com/dkuhlm
• Perl Hackathon at Open Source Bridge: http://tinyurl.com/cq44dw
• Perl QA hackathon progress report from David Golden http://tinyurl.com/db38g8
• Perl's version of Share & Enjoy: http://tinyurl.com/cdmnsp
• Building complex expressions with Perl 5.10 http://tinyurl.com/dgxnmt