A strange title, but it is commendable that they went all the way, and ScientiaMobile released a Perl API for WURFL (Wireless Universal Resource File). (Link via Simon Wilcox at the London Perl Mongers)

by Tina Müller (TINITA)

The workshop will take place between 13-15 March, 2013, in Berlin. Talk submission dead-line December 13th.

by Jeffrey Kegler (JKEGL)

In this articles, there is way more than I ever wanted to know about HTML, and the specification of HTML. The thing is, that someone has to know if text is allowed immediately inside tags, or if there needs to be another element. Eg.

. Jeffrey Kegler discusses the topic, and using his Marpa project provides a parser to deal with the problem.

by Yanick Champoux (YANICK)

When upgrading a module, the CPAN client does not know how to remove the old, unnecessary files. This can be especially problematic with external files such as images used as icons. Yanick Champoux created Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ShareDir::Tarball that will allow you to distribute all the shared files as a single tar.gz file. He also created File::ShareDir::Tarball that will allow you to later find the files installed inside that zip file. It should be a drop-in replacement for File::ShareDir.

by Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Not only is this a good, and small example on how to start writing web applications with a database back-end, but the ensuing discussion also provides a much deeper understanding how build a web application.

In the footsteps of Joel Berger, Toby Inkster wrote an example using these two low-level abstraction modules. The example in itself is interesting, but the discussion about indirect method calls and syntax disambiguation might be also interesting to you.

by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS)

Dave Cross explains why DBIC (aka. DBIx::Class), the currently most popular ORM (Object Relational Mapper) of Perl is not only for people who don't know SQL.

by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (MIYAGAWA)

Perl 5.16 and 5.16.1 are shipped with a developer release of ExtUtils::MakeMaker and there is no newer version CPAN. This sometimes breaks Carton. Tatsuhiko Miyagawa is a nice guy, so he phrases in a very nice way how p5p and the authors of the core modules could avoid such problems. I am just surprised how can this happen? Why is there no policy in p5p that they only ship with productions modules that have been released to CPAN?

IF you are trying to call C or C++ subroutines from, you are probably familiar with XS. Sergey Babkin provide a solution for the case, when your XS file becomes too big.

I guess the title should be 'Dead serious fun'. While Kirk Kimmel was trying to determine what the content-encoding of a web page is, he stumbled upon an interesting piece of SQL injection attack.

by JT Smith (RIZEN)

The Game Crafter allows you to build and publish your own board games.

See the progress Shlomi Fish makes.

by Solomon Foster

Solomon Foster is making more steps.

by John Napiorkowski (JJNAPIORK)

Are you fed up by recruiters writing PERL? Are you a requiter fed up with the quirks of the Perl community? It is time to help John Napiorkowski improve this document that will help recruiters navigate the murky waters of the Perl community.

This came in a week ago, just a bit after I sent out the newsletter.

Thanks to Konrad Borowski (glitchmr) for publishing the edition early. Doing it on Saturday and then updating on Sunday works fine for me :)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

by Herbert Breunung (LICHTKIND)

Herbert Breunung visited the Italian Perl Workshop. He likes ice cream.

The logiclab report of NPW. I wonder, is that Jonas B. Nielsen writing?

November 16-17, 2012, Vienna, Austria

November 24, 2012, London, UK

December 4-7, 2012, Sydney, Australia