by Alberto Simões (AMBS)

Alberto Simões announced the call for proposals of The Perl Foundation grant committee. The dead-line is 15 of November.

Forward Ever shows how to use DBIx::Inspector to load a database schema via a DBI database handle and then how to analyse it. Listing tables, primary keys, columns. etc...

Kirk Kimmel says farewell to Dennis Ritchie the creator of Unix and the C programming language with plenty of links and references to Perl.

by Jeffrey Kegler (JKEGL)

The Marpa parser for grammars is now fully implemented in C. Jeffrey Kegler keeps working on Marpa which is great. He also keeps blogging that makes it easy to report about the new releases.

by Caleb Cushing (XENO)

This is the prelude to a 3-part series by Caleb Cushing (xenoterracide) explaining how he implemented a Perl API to the SOAP API of CyberSource which is an on-line payment processing system.

by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (MIYAGAWA)

When you deploy an application you want to make sure you have the exact same dependencies on all the machines you are using. Tatsuhiko Miyagawa gave a presentation about Carton, his new tool for dependency management.

by Carl Mäsak

Carl Mäsak describes the two kinds of macros the world knows for programming languages: C pre-processor macros and LISP macros that make the language super powerful. Then he goes on and shows how AST macros work in Perl 6.

by Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi (VTI)

Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi (vti) came back from the Crimea and wrote a nice report about the Black Perl Workshop , along with a bunch of pictures.

by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS)

After several 'less than optimal' articles about Perl in the Linux Format finally Dave Cross (davorg) got the opportunity to publish a series of articles about Modern Perl.

October 19-21, 2011, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany

November 4-5, 2011, Vienna, Austria and Bratislava, Slovakia

November 12, 2011, London, UK