by Claudio Ramirez (NXADM)

Claudio Ramirez (nxadm, El-Che) writes: FOSDEM is the biggest free and non-commercial European event organized by and for the community. The Perl community has a growing presence at this event that helps promoting Perl and distributing knowledge. It would be awesome to see some of you offer a talk there.

by Carl Mäsak

The thing is that this contest can be interesting to anyone who like programming and likes challenges. If you are a 'Perl 5 fan' or a Pythonista, forget about it for a minute. What if this was a Haskell contest? Yeah, I know, you would want to do it as that's one of the coolest language. Writing in Perl 6 is even more interesting. See the announcement of Carl Mäsak

by Olaf Alders (OALDERS)

Olaf Alders offers $400 and eternal glory for the winner of the contest. IF you are not a designer, tell a friend of your.

Mark Dootson wrote about the new release of Citrus Perl which was especially designed to build and distribute desktop applications written in wxPerl.

Alexandr Gomoliako announces the first public release of perl embedded in the Nginx web server. I have not tried Nginx yet but I should.

by Jeffrey Kegler (JKEGL)

I am sure some of you are already fed-up with Jeffrey Kegler constantly writing about Marpa. So I am happy to tell you that this time it is Wolfgang Kinkeldei who shows how he used Marpa to parse CSS.

lestrrat writes about Livedoor, his employer releasing STF, their internal distributed object store under and open source license. This sounds interesting.

by Peter Thoeny

In the Perl community we mostly talk and read about modules and how to use while in corporations they mostly care about large and complex applications. I think it is very important to read about large and complex open source applications such as Twiki. I'd be very interested in how do they do development and testing of the whole system.

Jon Jensen wrote how he had to convert strings in various encodings, some of them even mangled to UTF-8. He used Encoding::FixLatin and found a few other useful modules for when you need to convert legacy data to UTF-8.

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

Ovid shows how he is explaining recursive subroutines in his new book.

by Ricardo Signes (RJBS)

Usually we see examples on how things should be written so it is very educational that Ricardo Signes (RJBS) shows us an example of a failure. Based on the comments it seems that this particular issue has biten many good programmers.

by Steven Haryanto (SHARYANTO)

Steven Haryanto shows how to send e-mail using Email::Sender.

Flavio S. Glock (fglock) announces a new version of Perlito: Perlito is a compiler collection that contains both a Perl 5 compiler and a Perl 6 compiler.

by Dave Rolsky (DROLSKY)

Dave Rolsky has released Perl 5.15.6, the latest development version of Perl. Each release includes an epigraph. Dave explains his choice.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

I posted a list of 7 + 2 newsletter. The JavaScript Weekly and the Ruby Weekly that inspired the Perl Weekly and a few others that had the same inspiration.

by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS)

Dave Cross is running Public Perl training courses again.

January 13-15, 2012, Orlando, Florida, USA

February 28, 2012, Ramat Gan, Israel

March 5-7, 2012, Erlangen, Germany

April 14, 2012, Catonsville, MD, USA