YAPC::Europe will take place between 20-22 August, in Frankfurt. You are invited to submit talks already.

by Joel Berger (JBERGER)

.... This reminds me if we could marry Padre with PDL, that could be an interesting step towards providing an alternative to Matlab.

I especially liked the part: 'Basically, we ported the Perl programming language to the ADX application processor so that you can use APIs to control application delivery with a script. This means you get all the Perl goodness that you know and love for writing custom scripts to read or write layer three to seven headers based on your particular application needs.'

by Alberto Simões (AMBS)

Alberto Simões announced 3 grant proposals that were submitted to TPF. Please check them and comment on them.

It contains 111 pages and explains 130 unique one-liners and I already bought it.

by Ron Savage (RSAVAGE)

Ron Savage announced GraphViz2::Marpa and linked to a long article he wrote about 'Lexing and Parsing with Marpa'.

by Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Joel Berger provides some directions how to select a good Perl tutorial. (one could, of course, just check out mine :-)

Michael G Schwern describes how he thinks developers should be interview by potential employers. I am not sure if he talks from experience as an interviewer or as someone who is applying for a job. In either case interesting point.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

Neil Bowers describes the process of taking over maintenances of a CPAN module.

In response to an article by Jonathan Swartz arguing against running tests on installation, chromatic describes why he runs test and why he was looking for ways to improve the speed of testing. Being able to run the tests after installation would be nice and would be able to help in case we upgrade a dependency that breaks an already installed module.

Joseph Walton, author of XML::Writers takes the data from CPAN testers and shows some interesting graphs about the relation ship between the release dates of perl, XML::Writer and the respective test reports on CPAN Testers.

'don't assume the author is an idiot'. An obvious refactoring and an educational post goes wrong. There is a certain relaxing feeling that even people like Schwern can make mistakes. Sometimes.

Dmitry Karasik shows and explains how to write a udp_server using his IO::Lambda module.

Small but useful script for Perforce users.

Tim Heaney (oylenshpeegul) uses Google::Directions to find out how could the president of USA visit the workshop. I am quite sure he will have to pick an alternate route, now that the planned one was exposed to dangerous Perl Hackers.

An article by Douglas from Shutterstock about two surprising features of Perl that can easily trip programmers. Some interesting comments included.

by Moritz Lenz (MORITZ)

Moritz Lenz writes about the first task in the Perl 6 coding contest that ended recently.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

This is one of the first entries of the Perl Tutorial that gives some simple ideas how to debug Perl code.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

While in most of the Perl tutorial I deal with scripts, here I give a small glimpse into the world of one-liners.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

perlbrew? CPAN.pm ? cpanm? apt-get?

February 28, 2012, Ramat Gan, Israel

March 5-7, 2012, Erlangen, Germany

April 14, 2012, Catonsville, MD, USA

June 13-15, 2012, Madison, Wisconsin, USA