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Issue #1 - 2011-08-01 - Welcome to the Perl Weekly
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Headlines
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by Olaf Alders (OALDERS) Olaf Alders provided his weekly report that was full of new items. You can now +1 Perl modules, use the public API of MetaCPAN and compete with other CPAN authors for fame. | 
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This edition of the quarterly release marks the end of era. The next release will be already using the 'New Object Model'. |
Articles
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A 10 page whitepaper explaining what is the cloud and what are the benefits (e.g. pay as you go, on demand infrastructure, no upfront investment). It compares Amazon EC2 and Rackspace the leaders in providing infrastructure and then introduces Cloud Foundry. Then you have to fill a form to read about Stackato. |
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Tom Eliaz reports on creating a DMG package of Padre for Leopard, Snow Leopard, and Lion. The result is not perfect but it is critical to get feedback from Mac users. |
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Tom Christiansen posted his Unicode Slides on PerlMonks and caused another lengthy discussion. Sometimes even on topic. The slides are long and good. |
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by Ricardo Signes (RJBS) Ricardo Signes (RJBS) has posted the slides of his 3 hour long Moose tutorial. I have not seen his talk but his slides are really good. | 
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) Dave Cross wrote an article for the Josetteorama of Josette Garcia. It is worth reading especially if you have never been to a YAPC. You still have 10 days do join us or can plan for another Perl event. See below. | 
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Tadeusz Sosnierz (tadzik) reports about his project. This will bring integrated documentation to Perl 6. So your program will be able to tell for each object.WHY it is there? |
Discussions
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koolgirl asked the opinion of the PerlMonks whether she should answer when not 100% sure in the correctness of the answer. There are some really good responses encouraging participation. Even for non-experts. |
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by David Golden (DAGOLDEN) David Golden wanted to create a list of most important packages that might do better if there was an Alien::* package providing them. | 
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