Steinn E. Sigurdarson writes "This years Nordic Perl Workshop takes place the first weekend of May in Reykjavík, Iceland. This is the first time the event is held in Iceland, but hopefully not the last. Registration and more details are available on the workshop website."Read more of this story at use Perl.

mhx writes "GPW 12.0 — ”Modern Perl“ The 12th German Perl Workshop will be hosted from June 7th to 9th 2010 in Schorndorf near Stuttgart. The workshop is targeted towards all experienced and beginning Perl developers. Obviously, the workshop is only as good as its talks — your talks. We are interested in all talks about Perl itself or about Perl related topics, and especially talks that would apply to this year's motto “Modern Perl“. The submission deadline for your 5, 20 or 40 minute talks has been extended until March 5th, 2010.     http://conferences.yapceurope.org/gpw2010 The German Perl Workshop is a yearly held conference with mostly german-speaking users and developers of the Perl programming language. The main focus of the workshop held by the Deutscher Perl-Workshop GbR and the Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart (WRS) is ”Modern Perl“. The CPAN modules Catalyst, Moose and DBIx::Class are playing major roles: Catalyst as a flexible web framework, Moose with its postmodern object system for Perl and DBIx::Class as a layer between applications and databases."Read more of this story at use Perl.

BooK writes "The YAPC Europe Foundation's treasurer has put all the Foundation's financial reports (from 2004 to present) online. For those not interested in the gory details of "what has YEF been doing with the money it got from donations", there's also a global picture. This information is made public because YEF gets its funding from the Perl community, which has a right to know what's done with its money, and also in the hope that it will make the YAPC Europe Foundation's purpose clearer to everyone."Read more of this story at use Perl.

hcchien writes "We are glad to announce the OSDC.TW 2010 will be at 2010/4/24-25 in Acadmeia Sinica, Taipei. So it's time to call for papers now. If you work for any interesting open source projects. It is a good time to introduce your projects to the open source developers in Taiwan. And sure, we would like to get the talks about the developing tips and experence sharing. The deadline of call of paper is 31th, January, 2010. And we accept three kind of talks: tutorial: 3 hours, and we would provide the flight fee if the speakers are out of Taiwan. session: 1 hour. lightning talk: 5 minute. If you are interesting to submit the papers, please isending mail to submit@osdc.tw, and including the author intro and extract."Read more of this story at use Perl.

At Frozen Perl 2010 in Minneapolis, I'm teaching a new master class based on my latest book, Effective Perl Programming, 2nd Edition. Perl has changed quite a bit since Joseph Hall wrote the first edition over 10 years ago. Josh McAdams and I have added a lot of new information as well as updated the existing material. In the one-day class for intermediate Perl programmers, I'll cover selected topics from the book, including: Working with Unicode in PerlTricks with filehandlesNew regex features in Perl 5.10 and laterPlaying with pack()Using closures to make things simplerand other topics as time allows Although the book hasn't been published yet, it is available for pre-order, and attendees to the class can get a sneak peek at the working manuscript as well as a soft copy of the course slides.Read more of this story at use Perl.

Continuing celebration of Perl birthday... ExtUtils::MakeMaker is a well known and well problematic module for installing Perl modules. eumm-migrate is a tool I wrote to migrate from ExtUtils::MakeMaker to Module::Build. It executes Makefile.PL with fake ExtUtils::MakeMaker and rewrites all parameters for WriteMakefile into corresponding params of Module::Build->new. Calls to 'prompt' are also intercepted and corresponding 'prompt' is written to Build.PL. All other info should be ported manually. Install App::EUMM::Migrate from CPAN and just run eumm-migrate.pl (it will be in your PATH) in directory with Makefile.PL. If you use Github, Internet connection is recommended. eumm-migrate tries to automatically detect some properties like license, minimum Perl version required and repository used. If someone needs it, I can also add a Module::Install writer. P.S. If you want to just use new features of EU::MM, see eumm-upgrade.Read more of this story at use Perl.

jesse writes ""Say I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of     course you'd druther work wouldn't you? Course you would!"     Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"     "Why ain't that work?"     Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it     is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."     "Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"     The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't     to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"     That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom     swept his brush daintily back and forth stepped back to note the effect     added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again Ben     watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more     absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."                                         Mark Twain, /The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/ It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of Perl 5.11.3. This is the fourth DEVELOPMENT release in the 5.11.x series leading to astable release of Perl 5.12.0. You can find a list of high-profile changesin this release

olegm writes "It's that time of year again! I am writing to advertise to all of you that Frozen Perl 2010 will be on February 5-7, 2010. The call for speakers is open and I'd like extend an invite to speak to the community. Check it out at http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2010/cfs.html We are also offering a hackthon on Sunday, and two classes, "Effective Perl Programming", taught by brian d foy and "Introduction to Moose" taught by Dave Rolsky on Friday February 5th. Please submit your talks before Midnight on December 14th at http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2010/newtalk ."Read more of this story at use Perl.

acme writes:   The streets were pretty quiet, which was nice. They're always quiet here  at that time: you have to be wearing a black jacket to be out on the   streets between seven and nine in the evening, and not many people in the   area have black jackets. It's just one of those things. I currently live   in Colour Neighbourhood, which is for people who are heavily into colour.   All the streets and buildings are set for instant colourmatch: as you   walk down the road they change hue to offset whatever you're wearing.   When the streets are busy it's kind of intense, and anyone prone to   epileptic seizures isn't allowed to live in the Neighbourhood, however   much they're into colour.                  - Michael Marshall Smith, "Only Forward" It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of Perl 5.11.2. This is the third DEVELOPMENT release in the 5.11.x series leading to a stable release of Perl 5.12.0. You can find a list of high-profile changes in this release in the file "perl5112delta.pod" inside the distribution. You can download the 5.11.2 release from:    http://search.cpan.org/~lbrocard/perl-5.11.2/ The release's SHA1 signatures are:    2988906609ab7eb00453615e420e47ec410e0077  perl-5.11.2.tar.gz   0014442fdd0492444e1102e1a80089b6a4649682  perl-5.11.2.tar.bz2Read more of this

Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #23 ("Lisbon")On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce theNovember 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #23 "Lisbon".Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine(see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the November 2009 releaseis available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloadsDue to the continued rapid pace of Rakudo development and the frequentaddition of new Perl 6 features and bugfixes, we recommend building Rakudofrom the latest source, available 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 codenamed after a Perl Mongers group. The November 2009 release is codenamed "Lisbon" for Lisbon.pm, who did a marvellous job arranging thisyear's YAPC::EU.Shortly after the October 2009 (#22) release, the Rakudo teambegan a new branch of Rakudo development ("ng") that refactorsthe grammar to much more closely align with STD.pm as well asupdate some core features that have been difficult to achievein the master branch [1, 2]. Most of our effort for the past monthhas been in this new branch, but as of the release date the newversion had not sufficiently progressed to be the release copy.We expect to have the new version in place in the December 2009 release.This release of Rakudo requires Parrot 1.8.0. One must stillperform "make install" in the Rakudo directory b

Well, it's taken me 6 weeks of evenings and the odd weekend, but I'm proud to say the new http://www.perl.org/ site has just gone live. This is a complete redesign and content review. Hopefully it's cleaner and easier for people to actually get the information they are after. Whilst I was at it I also implemented this skin for http://dbi.perl.org/ and http://learn.perl.org/ (which needs a lot more loving now you can actually see what's there... not much). My work (http://www.foxtons.co.uk/) have donated some of my time, and also some of the designers on my team's time, without which it would have taken even longer. So enjoy!Read more of this story at use Perl.

(This is a copy of an email to the BioPerl mailing list)Dear BioPeopleSince we added a "Live Support Chat" link to the frontpage of the Strawberry Perl website ( http://strawberryperl.com/ ) we've noticed that one of the main types of visitors that we see in the IRC channel ( #win32 on irc.perl.org ) is biologists trying to install variousthings.As a result, for the October 2009 release of Strawberry Perl, we've prioritised adding support for CPAN-installation of BioPerl.Changes include a major improvement to crypto support which provides OpenSSL and support for https:// URLs, we now ship Postgres and MySQL DBI drivers in the default installation, and we have added Berkely DB support (which previously prevented us meeting the dependencies for the BioPerl distribution).I'm happy to report that we now believe we are in a position to officially support the installation of BioPerl on Strawberry Perl.Prior to the official release next week, we would appreciate testing from the BioPerl community.Release candidate installers for the October release are available at the following URLs http://strawberryperl.com/download/strawberryperl-5.10.1.0.msi http://strawberryperl.com/download/strawberryperl-5.8.9.3.msi Once installed, run Start -> Program Files -> Strawberry Perl -> CPAN ClientFrom the CPAN client command line, run "install BioPerl" and selectthe default options.Once installed, you should be able to do anything you do normally with a BioPerl install.Assuming all goes we