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• Perl described in five sentences (blog.timbunce.org)
• RT @chromatic_x perl 6 is some 6% faster today. You're welcome.
• "Perl is full of odd, and they like it like that." (twitter.com)
• Why Users Dumped Your Open Source App for Proprietary Software (itworld.com)
• Book review of The Definitive Guide to Catalyst (dave.org.uk)
• YAPC::NA 2009 survey results available (use.perl.org)
• RT chromatic_x Rakudo Perl 6 passes 26% more spectests (and the test suite has grown by 19%) since the August 2009 release.
• Learn Github (learn.github.com)
• Submitted with eye-rolling: The $case_insensitive flag on PHP define() (us.php.net)
• Porting a non-Moose object to Moose (kentcowgill.org)
• Seven signs your interface came from a programmer (voyce.com)
• Curtis "Ovid" Poe added to Board of Directors of the Perl Foundation (news.perlfoundation.org)
• How not to restart mod-perl servers (openswartz.com)