by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

When I announced the course I offered a 81% discount for 3 days. I'd like to offer this discount to you, the reader of the Perl Weekly as well: Until the 15th December 2011 you'll be able to buy the advanced course for $9 instead of $49 using the 'advanced_intro_9' coupon. The two parts of the Beginner course also have discount codes: 'beginner_15' and 'beginner2_15' respectively for $15 instead of $39 each.

by Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Joel Berger announces a new version of the Perl shell. Cleaned and washed and ready to party.

by Mark Keating

Mark Keating (MDK) writes about the W3C competition and about the only Perl team that participated. And won. Leaving 46 other teams wishing they had better tools.

by Reini Urban (RURBAN)

Reini Urban gives us a couple of examples where little, innocent looking modules eat up a lot of memory. He also points to tools to check memory footprint. Memory optimization might be an important field we have been neglecting in the Perl/CPAN community. Or maybe it's just me.

by brian d foy (BDFOY)

In Perl, every scalar variable has both a string value and a numerical value. Usually they are related. brian d foy shows how to create such variables using Scalar::Util.

by Ricardo Signes (RJBS)

It's always fascinating to see a fight between man and machine. This time it is Ricardo Signes (RJBS) who had to deal with Encode, folding and Tibetian e-mail messages.

chromatic explains how to change the name of your process as seen by 'ps' or 'top' on Linux.

by Jeffrey Kegler (JKEGL)

If you have been following the posts of Jeffrey Kegler - and I saw many people clicked on those links - then you might be interested in the second part of this article.

I love the way Chisel explains how to get people to start thinking about a problem they face. It isn't always possible but I think it can work very well. Much better than saying RTFM or by giving them the solution.

by Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Joel Berger is doing scientific simulations so he needed complex types that understand things like ft/s (or m/s for those in the metric system).

by Graham Knop (HAARG)

Graham Knop, who almost never uses Perl on Windows, invested his time creating a way to escape all the characters that need to be escaped on Windows. This sounds a lot simpler than it is. I wish someone packaged this solution and put it on CPAN.

by brian d foy (BDFOY)

Usually I don't link to the small blog entries regarding next years YAPC::NA but this one I liked very much. 'Mob Rater' lets you suggest ideas for YAPC::NA and vote on the other ideas already listed. I think this is a nice idea and the results could be used by any YAPC or Perl workshop. So go ahead, put in your suggestions and vote on the other ones.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

This weeks 'top 10 Perl on Stack Overflow' got some very interesting links. Thanks to Miguel Prz (niceperl) for collecting them week after week.

This is the company of Jesse Vincent, the former Perl 5 Pumpkin

December 18, 2011, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

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

February 28, 2012, Ramat Gan, Israel

March 5-7, 2012, Erlangen, Germany