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• Running tests in MySQL with Perl via MyTAP (justatheory.com)
• chromatic rebuts the FUD of startup times for Rakudo Star (modernperlbooks.com)
• Top 10 tricks of Perl one-liners (blog.ksplice.com)
• A checklist for writing maintainable Perl (modernperlbooks.com)
• A gentle introduction to Perl 6 with Rakudo Star (blogs.perl.org)
• Opening Perl modules with vim (blogs.perl.org)
• Your Perl test suite is broken (blogs.perl.org)
• Diving into Perl 6 (perlbuzz.com)
• What's up with Proud To Use Perl (http://proudtouseperl.com/) Are people no longer proud?
• Why are Perl web apps less popular than those in PHP? (blogs.perl.org)
• Perl 5 and Perl 6 are different languages, and that's a good thing (use.perl.org)
• Perl 6 is easier to read than write (blogs.perl.org)
• The official Perl 6 cheat sheet (svn.pugscode.org)
• Currying with Perl 6 (perlgeek.de)
• Try Rakudo and learn Perl 6 in your browser: (try.rakudo.org)
• Perl 6 has data dumping baked right in (perlbuzz.com)
• What to respond to "Perl 6 isn't Perl any more" (perlbuzz.com)
• How to write about Perl 6 (blogs.perl.org)
• When should I use database abstraction? (blogs.perl.org)
• Videos from YAPC::NA (presentingperl.org)
• What I learned at YAPC::EU 2010 (blogs.perl.org)
• Where to now in Rakudo Perl 6 development? How to speed up Rakudo? (perlgeek.de)
• Colorized code snippets on an ANSI terminal (blogs.perl.org)

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• Detect regex-slowing match variables in your code (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• JT Smith talks WebGUI and plugs modern Perl tools (sourceforge.net)
• Rakudo Star, the first usable release of Rakudo Perl 6, coming on July 29, 2010 (use.perl.org)
• Schwern's perl5i makes Perl 5 awesomer until Perl 6 comes along. (search.cpan.org)
• Perl 5 wiki gets big upgrade (news.perlfoundation.org)
• RT @morungos Devel::SawAmpersand just helped us find and protect against a 200x slowdown in our code!
• RT @pjf Watching @szabgab's Perl on Android talk. Awesome to see it in action. Download at (code.google.com)
• Dist::Zooky converts your existing distributions to Dist::Zilla distros (blogs.perl.org)
• "dzil setup" will make Dist::Zilla easier to get started out of the box (rjbs.manxome.org)
• Validation is overrated (sethgodin.typepad.com)
• Should perlfoundation.org move to WebGUI? (blogs.perl.org)
• What performance increases can we expect as the Perl 6 implementations mature? (stackoverflow.com)
• The draft of @chromatic_x's "Modern Perl: The Book" is now available for review (modernperlbooks.com)
• YAPC::NA 2010 technology overview (blogs.perl.org)
• Four fundamental concepts every Perler should know (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• A user looking for help installing Perl 6: (superuser.com)
• Announcing CPAN Testers 2.0 (blogs.perl.org)
• Using Growl from the command line (blogs.perl.org)
• Installing CPAN modules on SOlaris 10 (blogs.perl.org)
• The marketing of Perl (blogs.perl.org)

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• White House releases open source code (perlbuzz.com)
• Use DBI_TRACE to track DBI (and DBIx::Class, etc) (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• Learn to use Dist::Zilla in this interactive tutorial (dzil.org)
• I love Github. They properly render my POD docs when browsing a project: (github.com)
• What's David Golden working on in Perl these days? (dagolden.com)
• Perl + Parrot projects accepted for Google Summer of Code (news.perlfoundation.org)
• Object::ID - A unique object identifier for any object (use.perl.org)
• YAPC::NA 2010 schedule announced (yapc2010.com)
• How you can contribute to Perl 6, without huge startup costs (blogs.perl.org)
• To InformationWeek/DrDobbs re: static code analysis (perlbuzz.com)
• RJBS' final report on 2010Q1 TPF grant work for Dist::Zilla (rjbs.manxome.org)
• dzil new - using Dist::Zilla to start new dists (rjbs.manxome.org)
• Free sample chapter of the new edition of Effective Perl Programming (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• New programming jargon (via @sachmet) (globalnerdy.com)
• The Perl Foundation appoints new Grant Managers (news.perlfoundation.org)
• Perl Foundation posts new rules for grants (news.perlfoundation.org)
• What is Kephra, and how does it differ from Padre? (blogs.perl.org)
• The more time we spend on "women in computing", the less time we have to actually get stuff done. (terriko.dreamwidth.org)
• Perl 5.12.1 released (blog.fsck.com)
• GSoC: Ryan Jendoubi's overview of his ctypes project (blogs.perl.org)
• Use each() on an array in Perl 5.12 (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• Interview w/Damian Conway (oreillygmt.co.uk)
• Making Test::Harness show a progress bar (blogs.perl.org)
• Trying to resurrect my Mechanix blog with a handy tip on SSH key handling (perlbuzz.com)
• How to shuffle a list in Perl (perlbuzz.com)

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• Slides for "Fishing for Perl: The New User Experience" (blogs.perl.org)
• I'm seeing more mentions of Plack lately, but know nothing about it. Perlbuzz would welcome an article about it.
• I discuss business cards, resumes and how you want to be remembered in my latest column (pragprog.com)
• What would a completely different CPAN client do? (blogs.perl.org)
• On the problems with libraries, with discussion of the CPAN specifically (pragprog.com)
• WWW::Mechanize 1.62 released (search.cpan.org)
• Action photos from the Perl QA Hackathon (blogs.perl.org)
• Use /gc and \G in matches to separate alternations in separate, smaller patterns (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• What's come out of the Perl QA Hackathon? Day 2 wrap-up (blogs.perl.org)
• Bricolage 2.0 has been released (bricolagecms.org)
• Jesse Vincent on the new Perl 5.12.x maintenance plan (nntp.perl.org)
• Test::WWW::Mechanize released, finally fixes install failures (search.cpan.org)
• Perl 5.12 has been released (search.cpan.org)
• Announcement and notes for Perl 5.12 (lwn.net)
• Pod::Site is a nice POD browser from @theory. Demo: http://www.bricolagecms.org/docs/current/api/
• Jan Dubois on the return of momentum to Perl 5 development (blogs.activestate.com)
• What's new in Perl 5.12? (search.cpan.org)
• Is cpanminus the future? (blogs.perl.org)
• Aggregating the coverage of Perl 5.12 (blogs.perl.org)
• Survey: What is your primary OS for Perl app development? (perlide.org)
• The Second Age of Perl (blogs.perl.org)

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• Decoding climate change with Perl, gnuplot and Google Earth (radar.oreilly.com)
• Musical chord analysis with CPAN (use.perl.org)
• Schwern on a pet peeve of mine: Numbered test file abuse (use.perl.org)
• eumm-migrate - easy way to migrate to Module::Build (use.perl.org)
• Readable Perl (blogs.perl.org)
• CPAN's greatest hits: Path::Class (use.perl.org)
• Spreadsheet::WriteExcel now supports embedding charts (blogs.perl.org)
• Cool things in Perl 6: Subsets (blogs.perl.org)
• Ovid has written an INI file parser in Perl 6 (blogs.perl.org)
• Schedule for Perl Oasis 2010 in Florida posted (perloasis.org)
• Movable Type 5 released (movabletype.com)
• YAPC Europe Foundation has published its financials (use.perl.org)

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• How to import Gravatars into Gmail with 121 lines of Perl (dagolden.com)
• RT @davorg From Amazon.com: After viewing "Data Munging With Perl" 61% of customers buy "I Drink For A Reason" (@davorg is the author of the book)
• ack 1.92 is now out (betterthangrep.com)
• Why learn Perl in 2009? (news.ycombinator.com)
• Screencast about ack from @yerhot (fosscasts.com)
• Presenting Module::Starter 1.54 (use.perl.org)
• Make the pragmas stop! (justatheory.com)
• A collection of Perl one-liners (blogs.perl.org)
• Skud on how developers can make things easier for CPAN users unfamiliar with developer tools (infotrope.net)
• The problems with CGI (blogs.perl.org)
• SVK was end-of-lifed back in May. It was fantastic back when. (use.perl.org)
• Is Perl 5's object system really that bad? (use.perl.org)
• use Config; # discover your path (use.perl.org)
• Perl Foundation has a new Perl events mailing list (news.perlfoundation.org)
• lists.perl.org has been overhauled and updated (blogs.perl.org)
• Perl 5.11.3 now available (use.perl.org)

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• Perl whipupitude to the rescue to notify Perlmonks users of security breach (dagolden.com)
• Skud debunks myths and answers questions about her OSCON keynote on women in open source (infotrope.net)
• Bail on Perl because of Perlmonks fiasco? Sounds silly to me (staynalive.com)
• Milestones in the Perl Renaissance (modernperlbooks.com)
• Help end licensing under "same terms as Perl itself" (perlbuzz.com)
• The awesome Peteris Krumins strikes again: Famous Perl one-liners explained, part II: (catonmat.net)
• Strawberry Perl releases its biggest update yet (csjewell.dreamwidth.org)
• Perl does error messages right (use.perl.org)
• Dave Rolsky: How I use Catalyst (blog.urth.org)
• Carl Masak: 3D graphing with Perl 6 (use.perl.org)
• PPI now supports Perl 5.10 (use.perl.org)
• Dear TPF - don't send money, send thank you letters (perlalchemy.blogspot.com)
• Perl::Metrics2 scalable enough to parse the GreyPAN (use.perl.org)
• First impressions of Padre (use.perl.org)
• The YAPC::EU Perl marketing BOF (use.perl.org)
• Rakudo project manager Patrick Michaud: Building a "useful release of Perl 6" (use.perl.org)
• Stumbling with Rakudo (lastofthecarelessmen.blogspot.com)
• RT @perloneliner perl -MTest::Valgrind -e 'leaky()'
• Help test the first release candidate for Perl 5.10.1 (use.perl.org)
• Brad Choate and I just moved Text::Textile over to github (github.com)
• Please comment on these seven grant proposals (use.perl.org)
• BooK on his White Camel award (use.perl.org)
• Rocco Caputo tries out git (use.perl.org)
• Why I stick with Perl (mechanicalrevolution.com)
• Data structures made easy with Data::AsObject (use.perl.org)
• Perl 6 has not missed the boat (perlbuzz.com)

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• Thoughts on process in the Perl 5 Corehackers project (use.perl.org)
• Jesse Vincent has been hacking on lots of goodness: (blog.fsck.com)
• RT @clonezone Would someone please put up descriptions of why the White Camel winners won? (bit.ly)
• Blog for David N. Blank-Edelman's updated book, Automating System Administration With Perl (otterbook.com)
• Video of Tim Bunce's OSCON talk on Devel::NYTProf (oscon.blip.tv)
• Why do you want to learn Perl 6? (szabgab.com)
• How about a CPAN ticker? (news.perlfoundation.org)
• A proposal: Bounties for clearing Perl 5 bugs (news.perlfoundation.org)
• Why I'm here, using Perl (use.perl.org)
• Improving perldoc.perl.org load times (use.perl.org)
• Ramping up with Rakudo regexes (web-hero.net)
• How I use RT for CPAN modules, by David Golden (dagolden.com)
• What do you want Perl 5 to be? (dagolden.com)
• TPF looking for grant proposals (news.perlfoundation.org)
• "Just Enough C For Open Source Projects" slides now available for download (en.oreilly.com)
• Perlmonks.org has been hacked. Your cleartext passwords are now public. (use.perl.org)

Lots of stuff happening over the past week because of OSCON.

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• Simon Cozens is "about 60% of the way there" working on a new way to install web apps (simon-cozens.org)
• vim configs including key bindings for Ack in Project (structurallysoundtreehouse.com)
• What should the world know about Perl? (perlbuzz.com)
• Perl book sales down 14% (radar.oreilly.com)
• Agh, I didn't realize the article I skimmed was four years old. Ignore, ignore! (radar.oreilly.com)
• Perl 6 Projects (perl6-projects.org)
• Three things in Perl 6 that are not so great (use.perl.org)
• Recap of @skud's #oscon keynote on sexism in open source (radar.oreilly.com)
• Any steps you take to include women in your project will only increase the total pool of hackers who can work on it! (radar.oreilly.com)
• Larry's discussion of the cool new error messages in Perl 6 is inspiring. So helpful for the coming transition.
• Banner from first ever Perl Conference went for $60 in the #oscon auction
• White Camel winners: @timbunce, @Schwern, BooK.
• RT @timbunce The screencast of my NYTProf v3 and perl optimization talk at #oscon is available at (timbunce.blip.tv)
• RT @rakudoperl Moritz Lenz released Rakudo Perl #19 -- (rakudo.org)
• RT @clonezone Tim Bunce (@timbunce) is amazing. Perl is lucky to have someone like him around.
• My to-do list always grows post-OSCON (perlbuzz.com)
• Behind the scenes of a Rakudo Perl release (use.perl.org)
• Video of @skud's keynote at #oscon on women in open source (blip.tv)
• What does the outside of Perl look like? (use.perl.org)

Every year at OSCON I come home with a head full of ideas, and better yet, a huge list of new things to work on. Since the book is now done, and OSCON is now over, there's a chance I could work on them.

• Ack plug-ins
  • I've been wanting to have plug-ins for ack for at least a year now, and I've connected with a number of people like Randy J. Ray who are on board to help me out. First task: Move it on over to github.
• Coverity scans for Parrot
  • Met with David Maxwell of Coverity and he fired up the Coverity bot for Parrot, and now I have new niggling bugs to pick at.
• PR work for first big release of Rakudo
  • There will be the first major release of Rakudo in spring 2010, and I got some plans going with Patrick Michaud to figure how we were going to build up buzz for that. I also have the notes from Damian's Perl 6 talk which are a fantastic summary of Perl 6's cool new features.
• Human Creativity
  • Julian Cash has been having Jos Boumans do all his Perl work for the Human Creativity project, but I offered up my services to do whatever he wants. Turns out the Julian is also working with Devin Crain, who I've known for years in an entirely non-geeek context.
• Hiring horror stories
  • Got some great response to my talk on job interviewing, and as always the stories resound the most. I talked to a few people afterwards who said they'd give me some horror stories I can run on The Working Geek as instructive examples of how not to do things, and why they're so awful.

For those of you leaving OSCON, what tasks did you just assign yourself in the past week?