• 2012.02.05 in #28 A Perl lexer and parser for Graphviz dot files
  Ron Savage announced GraphViz2::Marpa and linked to a long article he wrote about 'Lexing and Parsing with Marpa'.
• 2012.03.22 in #35 Installing Oracle's BerkeleyDB and Perl's BerkeleyDB
  Detailed, step-by-step instructions by Ron Savage.
• 2012.04.23 in #40 My personalized Perl bumper sticker
  Ron Savage has a a Perl-powered Toyota hybrid!
• 2012.05.06 in #42 Removing Locale::Country::SubCountry from CPAN
  Instead of trying to keep this information up to date manually, Ron Savage started to use the Wikipedia to scrape the information and store it in a local SQLite database. People quickly came to his help with suggestions to take over the module and pointers to other sources for the information he was missing.
• 2012.05.15 in #43 Announce: WWW::Scraper::Wikipedia::ISO3166
  As a follow-up to last week's discussion, Ron Savage release v1.01 of WWW::Scraper::Wikipedia::ISO3166 that ships an SQLite database of countries and subcountries, and an interface to that db. He even explaines what is a subcountry.
• 2012.10.01 in #63 An Overview of Lexing and Parsing
  Have you ever wondered what is Yacc and Bison? Maybe Lex and Flex? Have you heard of Marpa? Do you know the job of a lexer and a parser? Do you know how to turn a grammar into a real language? Ron Savage explains all that.
• 2013.04.21 in #91 Perl && jQuery && XML && ! taconite
  Ron Savage has publishes the 6th part of jQuery tutorial for Perl developers.
• 2013.05 in #94 Tut # 7: jQuery, Ajax, xml, Perl, databases and utf8
  Ron Savage posted another entry in his tutorial.
• 2013.11.13 in #121 Marpa's Advantages
  Ron Savage has published the 2nd chapter of his Marpa Papers.
• 2013.11.24 in #123 Decoding radio-controlled bus stop displays
  Ron Savage pointed out that there was a discussion on Slashdot about a bus service in Helsinki, Finland that broadcasts the data for the tram stop display system. Oona Räisänen took the lead and reverse engineered the data. Using some Perl code.
• 2014.02.07 in #133 Debian, MariaDB, Perl and DBD::mysql
  Ron Savage describes how he installed DBD::mysql and used it to access MariaDB.
• 2014.09.02 in #163 Marpa has a new web site
  .. on the web site of Ron Savage.
• 2014.12.15 in #178 A Note About Parsing Graphviz DOT files
  Ron has released new versions of his GraphViz2::Marpa and GraphViz2::Marpa::PathUtils modules. Graphviz is the most widely used toolkit for displaying directed graphs, and Marpa::R2 is a modern parsing toolkit for Perl.
• 2015.01.07 in #181 Fancy Matching of Delimited Text
  Want to match delimited text, but Text::Balanced and Regexp::Common aren't good enough for the job? Be happy, for there is a new Marpa-based solution in town.
• 2015.01.26 in #184 A survey of table rendering packages
  Ron is trying to build up a list of all 'table rendering packages'. Please let him know if he's missed any. He needs them for the SEE ALSO section of his new Text::Table::Manifold module.
• 2015.03.07 in #189 Tree::Renderer: A partial replacement for Data::TreeDumper
  Ron is working on a module called Tree::Renderer (not yet on CPAN), for use instead of Data::TreeDumper, and he's open to feature requests.
• 2015.11.13 in #225 Formal deprecation of GraphViz V 2.19 - Use GraphViz2
  GraphViz is deprecated. Long live GraphViz2!
• 2015.11.18 in #226 Understanding Marpa-style action subs parameters
  If you don't know what is Marpa, don't worry. The article starts with links to the introduction.
• 2015.11.25 in #227 Help needed updating Gedcom::Date
  Ron has some failing tests in Gedcom::Date as the result of changes in DateTime. He wasn't sure how to go about sorting it out, so asked for help, and got a reply from the author of DateTime, Dave Rolsky. As a result Ron has released a new version and is waiting to see what CPAN Testers says. A great example of the helpful Perl community.
• 2016.04.30 in #249 My Workflow for Building Distros
  Ron Savage shares how he releases his CPAN distributions.
• 2016.10.21 in #274 GraphViz2 V 2.43 now does image maps
  
• 2020.03.39 in #454 Keyhole surgery 100% successful
  We wish Ron quick recovery.
• 2020.11.04 in #485 News regarding GraphViz2
  Ed J (aka. mohawk) has taken over maintenance of the suite of GraphViz2 modules.
• 2021.08.05 in #524 Railroad diagrams for SQL 2003 and SQL 2016
  Ron started a discussion to find out if there is any Perl code which converts a grammar into a railroad diagram?
• 2023.11.27 in #644 Curated list of Perl modules
  One of the many great CPAN Testers, Ron, shared the curated list of Perl modules.
• 2023.11.27 in #645 Curated list of Perl modules
  
• 2024.07.21 in #678 Updated, curated, Perl module TiddlyWiki
  
• 2024.09.05 in #685 Perl wiki updated, 4 other wikis uploaded - Take 4
  
• 2024.09.05 in #685 Perl wiki updated, 4 other wikis uploaded - Take 2
  

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