Recently in Perl Foundation Category

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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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• How the Portland PostgreSQL users group had a Patch-a-Thon (pugs.postgresql.org)
• Padre 0.47 integrates better with Windows (ahmadzawawi.blogspot.com)
• Tim Bunce's Perl Myths talk, updated for 2009 (slideshare.net)
• Free Perl book excerpts from O'Reilly (oreilly.com)
• Building your career in open source (itworld.com)
• Getting the Perl Mongers into shape (szabgab.com)
• François Perrad's talk on the Parrot VM now online (slideshare.net)
• If you're not checking the return code of Getopt::Long::GetOptions(), you have impending sorrow.
• mod_perlite runs Movable Type (majordojo.com)
• Giving remarkable help online (community.livejournal.com)
• Help David Wheeler name methods in DBIx::Connector (justatheory.com)
• DBD::SQLite now has foreign key support (use.perl.org)
• Great move: The Perl Foundation creates a marketing committee (news.perlfoundation.org)
• Topics to consider for Perl 6 newbies (anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com)
• Perl 5.11.1 released (use.perl.org)

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• Perl described in five sentences (blog.timbunce.org)
• RT @chromatic_x perl 6 is some 6% faster today. You're welcome.
• "Perl is full of odd, and they like it like that." (twitter.com)
• Why Users Dumped Your Open Source App for Proprietary Software (itworld.com)
• Book review of The Definitive Guide to Catalyst (dave.org.uk)
• YAPC::NA 2009 survey results available (use.perl.org)
• RT chromatic_x Rakudo Perl 6 passes 26% more spectests (and the test suite has grown by 19%) since the August 2009 release.
• Learn Github (learn.github.com)
• Submitted with eye-rolling: The $case_insensitive flag on PHP define() (us.php.net)
• Porting a non-Moose object to Moose (kentcowgill.org)
• Seven signs your interface came from a programmer (voyce.com)
• Curtis "Ovid" Poe added to Board of Directors of the Perl Foundation (news.perlfoundation.org)
• How not to restart mod-perl servers (openswartz.com)

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• Perl projects for newbies (szabgab.com)
• On Moose and speed (blog.afoolishmanifesto.com)
• perldoc.perl.org updated with Perl 5.10.1 docs (use.perl.org)
• From user to contributor (use.perl.org)
• Hash JavaScript with Template::Toolkit for improved caching (blog.greenfelt.net)
• Dave Rolsky teaching a one-day Moose class (blog.urth.org)
• Why I love Perl already (thejoysofcomputing.wordpress.com)
• Is your Perl community visible? (blog.timbunce.org)
• Don't optimize for yourself in communities (perlbuzz.com)
• Releasing Your Company's Software as Open Source (itworld.com)
• What is the Right Way to do OO in Perl 5? (chris.prather.org)
• How to write apps in Rakudo http://groups.google.com/group/de.comp.lang.perl.misc/browse_thread/thread/abbf6e06c0b3b253# (Oh yeah, it's in German)
• What's new in Perl 5.10.1 (perltraining.com.au)
• More changes in the Perl Foundation (news.perlfoundation.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)

Each year, Google Summer of Code puts hundreds of students to work on open source projects, and pays them for it. The Perl Foundation is proud to announce that it has been accepted as a sponsoring organization this year.

Students propose projects that they'd like to have funded, and are assigned a mentor who will help guide the student and project to completion. For students, this is a great way to contribute to open source, get experience working on real projects that you can put on a resume, and get paid for it. You'll be helping open source while helping yourself. For mentors, you'll also be helping open source, and helping a new programmer get his or her start.

Jonathan Leto's blog has links to find out more.

• Formatting dates with strftime() http://tinyurl.com/c8fwaf
• What is Moose and why is it the future? http://use.perl.org/~acme/journal/38554
• No surprise: Perl books down. Surprise: Ruby down even more. http://tinyurl.com/d9fhfn
• Rakudo Perl #14 ("Vienna") released -- see http://tinyurl.com/c3842v
• Perl 6 stretches its wings, makes a milestone release http://tinyurl.com/dgm5oc
• The 10th Anniversary YAPC website is now live http://yapc10.org/
• chromatic praises the unsung heroes of Perl http://tinyurl.com/b3t926
• Perl project WebGUI is #1 rated in vitality on Freshmeat http://tinyurl.com/arokuj
• Parrot documentation available as a CHM file: http://tinyurl.com/dn5vbf
• Red flags in programs http://tinyurl.com/bajnjg
• Applying to Google Summer Of Code 2009 with The Perl Foundation http://tinyurl.com/bfngyw
• Converting MJD's reverse Polish calculator to Perl 6 http://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/archives/341
• Randal Schwartz puts the smackdown on SD Times' FUD http://www.sdtimes.com/link/33306
• From baby Perl to grown-up Perl http://tinyurl.com/dzvmsz
• MJD's RPN calculator, Take 2: http://tinyurl.com/d7bm67

Booking.com, a global hotel reservation service based in the Netherlands, has donated $50,000 to the Perl Foundation to help in further Perl development, specifically Perl 5.10.

As Richard Dice, president of TPF says, "booking.com has demonstrated extraordinary vision and community spirit," but they also know that their infrastructure needs ongoing support. Their IT team is 50+ persons, and Perl is the "language of choice."

Thanks to booking.com for this donation, and let's hope it is part of an ongoing trend. Now, if only TPF could get, say, $5 from every company that used Perl. Think how many programmer-years that could buy to help get Rakudo out the door.

Go, Richard, go!

Richard Dice, president of the Perl Foundation, is part of an article on the "state of scripting languages" in CIO magazine.

Of all the scripting languages, Perl offers the biggest installed base of applications, of code, of integrated systems, of skilled programmers. It has the lowest defect rate of any open-source software product. It is ported to essentially every hardware architecture and operating systems, from embedded control systems to mainframes. It is optimized for speed, for memory footprint, for programmer productivity. It has readily-accessible libraries for all types of programming tasks: Web application development, systems and network integration and management, end-user application development, middleware programming, REST and service-oriented architecture programming. Perl is ideal for the organization that takes charge of its own IT future.

P E R L!
P E R L!
P E R L!
Go team!