These links are collected from the Perlbuzz Twitter feed. If you have suggestions for news bits, please mail me at andy@perlbuzz.com. Which module should I use to define constants? (neilb.org) Why @chromatic_x runs tests on install, and I do, too (modernperlbooks.com) Peteris Krumins' series "Perl One-Liners Explained" is now an ebook...

In response to all the kerfuffle about Why I Left Perl because of strict dogma about strict, Chris Prather wrote a well-reasoned discussion about how there are no standards for what "best practices" is in Perl. One of his key points was: The big reason for leaving Perl, though, was people in the Perl community, who had become annoying scolds. I...

In response to all the kerfuffle about Why I Left Perl because of strict dogma about strict, Chris Prather wrote a well-reasoned discussion about how there are no standards for what "best practices" is in Perl. One of his key points was: The big reason for leaving Perl, though, was people in the Perl community, who had become annoying scolds. I...

These links are collected from the Perlbuzz Twitter feed. If you have suggestions for news bits, please mail me at andy@perlbuzz.com. If you've been to a YAPC in Chicago, this photo may look familiar (cbsnews.com) Three TPF grant proposals are up for community discussion (news.perlfoundation.org) How to tell if a Perl tutorial is any good...

These links are collected from the Perlbuzz Twitter feed. If you have suggestions for news bits, please mail me at andy@perlbuzz.com. If you've been to a YAPC in Chicago, this photo may look familiar (cbsnews.com) Three TPF grant proposals are up for community discussion (news.perlfoundation.org) How to tell if a Perl tutorial is any good...

These links are collected from the Perlbuzz Twitter feed. If you have suggestions for news bits, please mail me at andy@perlbuzz.com. Which module should I use to define constants? (neilb.org) Why @chromatic_x runs tests on install, and I do, too (modernperlbooks.com) Peteris Krumins' series "Perl One-Liners Explained" is now an ebook...

These links are collected from the Perlbuzz Twitter feed. If you have suggestions for news bits, please mail me at andy@perlbuzz.com. Which module should I use to define constants? (neilb.org) Why @chromatic_x runs tests on install, and I do, too (modernperlbooks.com) Peteris Krumins' series "Perl One-Liners Explained" is now an ebook...

These links are collected from the Perlbuzz Twitter feed. If you have suggestions for news bits, please mail me at andy@perlbuzz.com. Open source is improv, so say "Yes and" (petdance.com) craigslist donates $100,000 to the Perl Foundation (news.perlfoundation.org) Text::AsciiTeX renders TeX formulas as ASCII art (blogs.perl.org) The most...

These links are collected from the Perlbuzz Twitter feed. If you have suggestions for news bits, please mail me at andy@perlbuzz.com. Open source is improv, so say "Yes and" (petdance.com) craigslist donates $100,000 to the Perl Foundation (news.perlfoundation.org) Text::AsciiTeX renders TeX formulas as ASCII art (blogs.perl.org) The most...

These links are collected from the Perlbuzz Twitter feed. If you have suggestions for news bits, please mail me at andy@perlbuzz.com. Perl QA Hackathon last call for participation (nntp.perl.org) RJBS gives the history of Dist::Zilla (perlmonks.org) What to avoid in BEGIN blocks (blogs.perl.org) Visualizing the improved Perl 5 release cycles...

These links are collected from the Perlbuzz Twitter feed. If you have suggestions for news bits, please mail me at andy@perlbuzz.com. Perl QA Hackathon last call for participation (nntp.perl.org) RJBS gives the history of Dist::Zilla (perlmonks.org) What to avoid in BEGIN blocks (blogs.perl.org) Visualizing the improved Perl 5 release cycles...

These links are collected from the Perlbuzz Twitter feed. If you have suggestions for news bits, please mail me at andy@perlbuzz.com. Modern Perl 2011-2012 edition released (modernperlbooks.com) Developing parsers incrementally w/Marpa (blogs.perl.org) Parrot tickets migrated to @GitHub. (perlbuzz.com) Thank you, CPAN Testers (blogs.perl.org)...

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The Parrot project is now using GitHub's issue tracking system. Parrot has used GitHub's source code control for months now, but we had hundreds of tickets in the Trac system.  Now, over the past few weeks, I've been working with Rick from GitHub to migrate the tickets out of Trac into GitHub's issue system. Like most data conversion projects,...

The Parrot project is now using GitHub's issue tracking system. Parrot has used GitHub's source code control for months now, but we had hundreds of tickets in the Trac system.  Now, over the past few weeks, I've been working with Rick from GitHub to migrate the tickets out of Trac into GitHub's issue system. Like most data conversion projects,...