With the perldoc-search program, you can easily search all your perl documentation to find where that elusive "add_build_element" method is documented.When I say this: perldoc-search add_build_element I get this: perltoc - perl documentation table of contentsModule::Build::API - API Reference for Module AuthorsModule::Build::Cookbook - Examples of Module::Build UsageRead more of this story at use Perl.

I would like to announce the pilot Perl event in Baltic States: Baltic Perl Workshop 2009.It happens on 21st of November, 2009 in Riga, the capital of Latvia.Venue is located in the beautiful center of Old Town. Konventa hotel offers special price for attendees of Baltic Perl Workshop: 50 € per night (single or double room).Please consider attending first ever Baltic Perl Workshop (there will be no more first one). Talk submissions are open. The workshop is free.Read more of this story at use Perl.

The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 06 May 2009. Larry, Allison, Patrick, Nicholas, and chromatic attended.Read more of this story at use Perl.

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the June 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #18 "Pittsburgh". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine. The tarball for the June 2009 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads . Due to the continued rapid pace of Rakudo development and the frequent addition of new Perl 6 features and bugfixes, we continue to recommend that people wanting to use or work with Rakudo obtain the latest source directly from the main repository at github. More details are available at http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo . Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release code named after a Perl Mongers group. This release is named "Pittsburgh", which is the host for YAPC|10 (YAPC::NA 2009) and the Parrot Virtual Machine Workshop. Pittsburgh.pm has also sponsored hackathons for Rakudo Perl as part of the 2008 Pittsburgh Perl Workshop. In this release of Rakudo Perl, we've focused our efforts on refactoring many of Rakudo's internals; these refactors improve performance, bring us closer to the Perl 6 specification, operate more cleanly with Parrot, and provide a stronger foundation for features to be implemented in the near future. Some of the specific major changes and improvements in this release include: Rakudo is now passing 11,536 spectests, an increase of 194 passing tests since the May 2009 release. With this release Rakudo is now passing 68% of the available

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the May 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #17 "Stockholm". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1]. The tarball for the May 2009 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads . Due to the continued rapid pace of Rakudo development and the frequent addition of new Perl 6 features and bugfixes, we continue to recommend that people wanting to use or work with Rakudo obtain the latest source directly from the main repository at github. More details are available at http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo . Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release code named after a Perl Mongers group. This release is named "Stockholm"; Stockholm Perl Mongers will be holding a Perl 6 hackathon on May 29 [3]. Perl 6 developer Carl Mäsak is a member of Stockholm Perl Mongers and a main author of November [4], Druid [5], proto [6], and other Perl 6-based packages. Carl also contributes patches to Rakudo, and has been stress-testing Rakudo over the past year, submitting nearly 400 bug reports. In this release of Rakudo Perl, we've made the following major changes and improvements: Rakudo is now passing 11,342 spectests, an increase of 875 passing tests since the April 2009 release. With this release Rakudo is now passing 68% of the available spectest suite. We now have an updated docs/ROADMAP . Errors and stack traces now report the file name and line num

dha writes "Every year the White Camels are presented for service to the Perl community. If you look at the previous winners, you'll notice that these are mostly unsung heroes, like previous awardee Eric Cholet, the human moderator of so many Perl mailing lists, or Jay Hannah, one of the people running pm.org (if you ever created/maintained a pm group, chances are that Jay walked you through the process). Some of these people may be well known, like Allison Randal or Randal Schwartz, while others may be complete strangers to at least part of the globe, like Josh McAdams or Jay. Some of them may be extreme Perl hackers who created the original JAPH, but they actually received this award as a recognition for their community contributions to Perl rather than for their programming ability. That's not to say a great hacker can't receive the award, but you don't have to be one in order to be eligible. That being said, the nomination process for the 2009 White Camels is now open. If you think there's someone who deserves a White Camel, this is the time for you to send in your nominations. Send them to whitecamel-suggestions@perl.org, if possible with a subject along the lines of "White Camel Nomination :: $name". Make sure you properly identify the nominee and tell us why you think that's a worthy nomination. Don't go thinking "nah, somebody else will do it" because: a) everybody else may be thinking the same, and b) you may state your case differently than the next person. We'll be

I've created some "Beta-test" MSI installers for Strawberry Perl - they're available at http://csjewell.comyr.com/perl/strawberryperlbeta.html for you to test out, hammer on, etc.If more people do this than just me, July's Strawberry Perl will hopefully be just great!For production Perl programming environments, you'll still probably want to go to http://strawberryperl.com/ (or to ActiveState, if that works for you) to get your Perl fix on Windows.Otherwise, let me know of any problems you have!Read more of this story at use Perl.

ehdonhon writes "Planning on staying on campus for YAPC|10? Make sure you reserve your room prior to May 19th. After that date, we no longer have an exclusive hold on the rooms and other events can end up taking our rooms. For more information on YAPC::NA housing, look on the YAPC|10 website at yapc10.org."Read more of this story at use Perl.

huguei writes "Dolores Labs, who drives internet behaviour studies, did a research about the programming language with the happiest users, using tweets that matched "X language", and looked if it seemed positive, negative or neutral. Guess which one was the language with the happiest users ;)"Read more of this story at use Perl.

Earlier this past week I submitted a proposal to the TPF Board of Directors; the PDF of this proposal is attached here. The plan includes a long list of projects, most of which have been discussed within TPF for a while but have been on indefinite hold due mainly to lack of available effort to address them properly. Some are for TPF process improvement and others are in more direct support of the Perl community. The essence of plan is that I be employed on contract by TPF for the next 6 months working on this list.The funding for this plan comes from the Ian Hague donation. The proposal I gave Mr. Hague last year featured a division of it into two halves of $100k each: one for p6 development, the other for TPF organization building, which explicitly included the option to fund paid TPF staff. So, we have the money and the blessing of the funder for it to be used in this way. The requested amount in my proposal to TPF is US$5k/month * 6 months = US$30k. This monthly amount is the same as is provided for Hague grants.As a volunteer myself for the past few years I've been able to allocate maybe 2 hours in an average week to TPF business. Very rarely I've been able to invest significant chunks of time, and it seems the bigger things I've accomplished have come from those periods of exceptional effort (e.g. Forrester Survey @ 40 hours over 2 weeks, Ian Hague donation @ 80 hours over 1 month). This suggests to me that we'll get some really good results out of this plan: TPF has nev

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the April 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #16 "Bratislava". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1]. The tarball for the April 2009 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads . Due to the continued rapid pace of Rakudo development and the frequent addition of new Perl 6 features and bugfixes, we continue to recommend that people wanting to use or work with Rakudo obtain the latest source directly from the main repository at github. More details are available at http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo . Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release code named after a Perl Mongers group. This release is named "Bratislava", home to Jonathan Worthington and reportedly an excellent place to obtain beer (a key component of Jonathan's contributions to Perl). The Bratislava.pm group is quite active [2], with regular technical presentations and social gatherings. In this release of Rakudo Perl, we've made the following major changes and improvements: Rakudo is now passing 10,467 spectests, an increase of 3,194 passing tests since the March 2009 release. With this release Rakudo is now passing approximately 65% of the available spectest suite. About 2/3 of the increase in passing tests is due to improved Unicode support in Rakudo; constructs such as "\c[LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A]" and Unicode character properties in regexes are now supported. The

BooK writes "While YAPC::Europe 2009 preparations are well underway in Lisbon, it is time for the YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF) to look for suitable sites for the 2010 conference. Any dedicated group interested in hosting YAPC::Europe 2010 should send a brief statement of intent to venue@yapceurope.org. This should be followed by a complete application. The deadline for applications is June 30, 2009. For details on how to prepare your complete application, consider the examples of previous conferences. If your proposal is selected, it will be added to the others on this page (you will have the opportunity to remove private information first). Be certain to include contact information (including telephone numbers) for at least two members of the group. You may also direct any questions to the aforementioned email address. A decision on the location will be publicly announced at the start of the Lisbon conference. Looking forward to your submissions, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) on behalf of the YAPC::Europe Venue Committee"Read more of this story at use Perl.

Peter Scott writes "Peter Scott has just created a learning Perl DVD, published by Addison Wesley. 4+ hours of Perl instruction on screencast with video of the author introducing each lesson. This is an introduction to Perl for the student who learns by example and prefers a visual and/or auditory style. For more information, see Perl Fundamentals."Read more of this story at use Perl.

Eric Wilhelm writes "The Perl Foundation has been accepted into Google Summer of Code 2009 as a mentor organization! Now is the time for all good Perl Mongers to encourage students to apply for the program. Qualifying students should note the April 3rd deadline, but also note that the best proposals usually arrive about one week before the deadline. If you are interested in mentoring, sign up and add your suggestions to the project ideas page."Read more of this story at use Perl.

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the March 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #15 "Oslo". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1]. The tarball for the March 2009 release is available from http://www.pmichaud.com/perl6/rakudo-2009-03.tar.gz However, because of the rapid pace of Rakudo development and addition of new features, we still recommend that people wanting to use or work with Rakudo obtain the latest version directly from the main repository at github -- more on this in a bit. Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release code named after a Perl Mongers group. This release is named "Oslo" in honor of the organizers of the 2009 Nordic Perl Workshop [2], April 16-17, 2009. The 2009 Nordic Perl Workshop will have a special focus on Perl 6, Rakudo Perl, and Parrot, including Perl 6 tutorials and hackathons after the conference itself. A list of the other planned release dates and codenames for 2009 is available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file. In general, Rakudo development releases are scheduled to occur two days after each Parrot monthly release. Parrot releases the third Tuesday of each month. Rakudo Perl now uses git [3] for its version control system, hosted at http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo . The README file there is kept up-to-date with the latest instructions for obtaining and building Rakudo Perl. In this release of Rakudo Perl, we've made the following major changes and i

The very first Yet Another Perl Conference was held in '99. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of that event, we are offering a special YAPC|10 admission price of $99 — but only for 10 days! After that, the price goes up to $125. The full pricing schedule is below:10th Anniversary Special $99 Mar 14--24Standard pricing $125 Mar 25--May 31Late registration $150 After May 31Read more of this story at use Perl.

The website and the registration for second YAPC::Russia are open now.This year we’d like to make some changes in the general layout of the conference and would try to add master classes or tutorials for people who’d like to teach Perl.From previous year we bring YAPC::Russia::Golf content; Jerom is already preparing tasks for them. Of course, there will be lightning talks, coffee-breaks, preconference Friday meeting and attendees dinner.Attendance is free of charge.The conference is organized by DeepText and Moscow.pm. This is our 9th event. People who are responsible for that have already organized Perl events in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Bulgaria. The distance between the most easten and the most western cities of our events is 9000 km.Read more of this story at use Perl.

ehdonhon writes "The very first Yet Another Perl Conference was held in '99. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of that event, we are offering a special YAPC|10 admission price of $99 — but only for 10 days! After that, the price goes up to $125. Be sure to buy your ticket at YAPC10.org today. While you're at it, why not submit a talk for YAPC? Deadline for talk proposals is Friday, 24 April 2009. Submit your talk today!"Read more of this story at use Perl.

POE::Component::IRC version 6.00 has just been released on CPAN. I've neglected to blog about PoCo::IRC since I started contributing to it, but since a new major release has been rolled out[1], now would be a good time. Also, as it turns out, next May will be the tenth anniversary of the project's first release.Read more of this story at use Perl.