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• So you want to write a Perl 6 module? (ttjjss.wordpress.com)
• What is the Japan Perl Association and what does it do? (mt.endeworks.jp)
• My first patch to Rakudo Perl 6: (mail-archive.com)
• A reminder to HR folks: It's Perl, not PERL. (jobs.perl.org)
• David Golden cuts through some Rakudo Star snark (dagolden.com)
• I'm glad to hear "Rakudo is slow!" (perlbuzz.com)
• Rakudo Star means Perl 6 questions are on the rise at Perlmonks (perlgeek.de)
• Perl is not an acronym (perlbuzz.com)
• 45m of video interview w/Larry Wall, creator of Perl http://bigthink.com/larrywall (via @theory and @sachmet)
• Top three languages at github: Ruby, JavaScript, Perl (r-chart.com)
• CPAN Testers must convert from email to HTTP by Sep 1st (log.perl.org)
• First impressions of Perl 6 from blog "Mad, Beautiful Ideas", which seems appropriate for Perl 6 (blog.foxxtrot.net)
• Devel::CheckLib needs a new maintainer (blogs.perl.org)
• Rakudo bugs are love (use.perl.org)
• HTTP::BrowserDetect has been freshly updated (blogs.perl.org)
• What's on your to-do list? Here's mine: (perlbuzz.com)
• pudge on the uncertain future of use.perl.org (use.perl.org)
• The 2010 White Camel awards (blogs.perl.org)
• Perlmonks poll: My first impression of Rakudo Star... (perlmonks.org)
• Vim 7.3 supports Perl 6, adds Perl 5 improvements (perlbuzz.com)
• Improving Perl sub detection in git diffs (blogs.perl.org)
• Perl Foundation news site gets a redesign (news.perlfoundation.org)
• Switching to Dist::Zilla: A usage report (blogs.perl.org)
• Temporarily delete hash keys or array elements with "delete local" (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• Run PHP tests in your Perl test suite (perlbuzz.com)
• What is the "Cool" class in Perl 6? (perlgeek.de)
• I'm playing with the ack.vim plugin. I like it much. (vim.org)
• Alien::SVN has a new owner, for those of you still hooking into Subversion (use.perl.org)
• WWW::Salesforce gets a long-awaited update (blogs.perl.org)
• Don't discount the value of indirect PR. A mention of Perl 6 is a mention of Perl 6. (pcworld.com)
• Which Perl XML module should I use to...? (blogs.perl.org)
• Video of Tim Bunce's talk about DBDI for Perl 6: (blip.tv)
• Videos from YAPC::EU available (Thanks @sachmet) (conferences.yapceurope.org)
• Allison Randal is now working full time at Ubuntu (allisonrandal.com)
• Non-technical strategies for getting people on board with technological change (everythingsysadmin.com)
• Useful side effects of Perl testing culture (xrl.us)
• Idiomatic Perl 6 (use.perl.org)

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• NYTProf 4.04 now warns if it sees $`, $\& or $\', which are regex performance killers (blog.timbunce.org)
• Facebook::Graph automates Facebook interactions (blogs.perl.org)
• Iterating your way to happiness with Perl 6 (use.perl.org)
• Perlcast returns with an interview with Stevan Little about Moose (perlcast.com)
• CPAN on your iPhone (blogs.perl.org)
• YAPC::NA 2011 will be in Asheville, NC (news.perlfoundation.org)
• Ten years of Perl 6 and all the goodness it's brought (use.perl.org)
• Fixing my #1 bash annoyance (perlbuzz.com)
• Wedge more text in your tweets with Unicode abuse (blogs.perl.org)
• Ingy's take on Rakduo Perl 6: It's really ready (blogs.perl.org)
• Convert Perl POD to ePub format for your iPhone (blogs.perl.org)
• I would love to see something like this for the Perl standard modules (ruby-doc.org)
• Six cool Perl 6 built-ins (use.perl.org)
• Outsider recap of Larry's 2010 State of the Onion (pcworld.com)
• Template Toolkit + vim users, the tt2.vim and tt2html.vim files are now part of vim-perl (github.com)
• All about Perl 5.12's deprecation warnings (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• Github is now at one million projects (techcrunch.com)
• Common Perl 6 idioms (perlgeek.de)
• The Moose Blog (blog.moose.perl.org)
• Modern Perl vs. Desperate Perl (bofh.org.uk)
• Per-computer colored prompts in bash (geofft.mit.edu)
• Someone perceives Perl as old, dying. You can either A) Argue, or B) Do awesomeness with Perl to prove him wrong. I suggest B.
• Why roles in Perl are awesome (perlbuzz.com)

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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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• Falling out of love with a language (bofh.org.uk)
• RT @artmonstergirl I like my regular expressions same as my men, powerful, yet confusing, and not really quite what I intended.
• Avoid accidentally creating methods from module exports (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• Google Talk with Perl (blogs.perl.org)
• Processing XML with XML::Twig (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• Polishing NYTProf 3.0 with 3.11 (blog.timbunce.org)
• Higher order MP3 organization (varlogrant.blogspot.com)
• Google Code has improved Subversion project speed (googlecode.blogspot.com)
• Perl Foundation accepted for Google Summer of Code 2010 (news.perlfoundation.org)
• Making deep copies of hashes (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• Perl projects that should have websites (blogs.perl.org)
• Open Source Bridge 2010 is still accepting proposals (opensourcebridge.org)
• CPAN projects don't need professional looking websites (blogs.perl.org)
• The Perl Foundation gets a new president and treasurer (news.perlfoundation.org)
• Open source summer Perl jobs for college students (use.perl.org)
• sayperl.org provides translations of Perl blogs from around the world (use.perl.org)
• BioPerl accepted to Google Summer of Code (use.perl.org)
• YAPC::NA 2011 call for venue (news.perlfoundation.org)
• Some facts about Schwern (use.perl.org)
• Help englighten Perl's documentation (blogs.perl.org)
• Change your wallpaper with WWW::Mechanize (viveksnv.blogspot.com)
• OSCON Perl track announced (oscon.com)
• Distributing applications via CPAN (blogs.perl.org)
• Leo Lapworth has started a section of whitepapers on Perl.org (blogs.perl.org)
• Moose has a new website (iinteractive.com)

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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)