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Perl QA Hackathon 2012: Last call for participation

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Jan 192012
 

The Perl QA Hackathon 2012 is taking place from Friday, March 30th to Sunday, April 1st 2012 in Paris, France. Attendance is free. Attendees work on a wide variety of tools for the benefit of Perl and all who use it. The more people they have present, the more Perl will improve. Projects on the itinerary include the Perl build toolchain and many tools around CPAN.

Registration will close on January 31st, 2012, so signup sooner rather than later.

You can also propose other people who should be invited. As with past years, they aim to fund the travel and accommodation costs for those who cannot otherwise get funding.

Sponsors required

Sponsoring the event is not reserved to organizations and corporations:if you think the Hackathon is useful to the Perl community, but cannot attend yourself, you can still contribute to the success of the event by making a donation. Even small donations will help and would be greatly appreciated.

 Posted by Community Submission at 06:45

Perl Nights opens for a public beta

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Nov 062011
 

Perl Nights is a new social networking site for Perl built to emulate the venerable but ageing Perl Monks site, but using aXML and PSGI/Plack.

The full source code to Perl Nights will be available in the Castle Blueprints section once the beta period is over and all features are complete and bug free.

 Posted by Community Submission at 13:18

Belgian Perl Workshop 2011

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Sep 262011
 

The Belgian Perl Workshop 2011 will take place at “The Hub” in Brussels, on Saturday 15 October.

This is now very soon, so please register your presence and talk submissions as soon as possible via the conference site.

As usual the entrance to the workshop is free.

 Posted by Community Submission at 08:07

TwinCity Perl Workshop 2011 – Call for papers

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Sep 142011
 

The TwinCity Perl Workshop 2011 (held on 4th–5th November in Vienna and Bratislava) has announced a call for papers for talks and workshops. They would like to hear about your topics concerning the Perl family of languages and related topics. The deadline for submissions is October 15th.

To submit a talk abstract and for further details visit the TwinCity Perl Workshop 2011 web site. Subscribe to their newsfeed to stay updated.

 Posted by Community Submission at 09:22

Perl 5.12.4 is available

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Jun 202011
 

Perl 5.12.4 is now available to download from CPAN mirrors around the world.

Perl 5.12.4 is the fifth stable release of Perl 5.12.

This release contains bug fixes, build fixes and documentation updates. It should be fully backward compatible with Perl 5.12.3.

Perl 5.12.4 is a recommended upgrade for all users of Perl 5.12.

You can find a full list of changes in the file “perl5124delta.pod”

Perl 5.12.4 represents approximately 5 months of development since Perl 5.12.3 and contains approximately 200 lines of changes across 11 files from 8 authors.

The Perl 5.12 branch is now an older stable branch. The current stable branch is 5.14, and all users of 5.12 are recommended to upgrade to 5.14 when it is convenient. Perl 5.14.2 is expected to be released in mid-September 2011, followed by Perl 5.14.3 in mid-December. The next major release of Perl 5, 5.16.0 should appear in spring 2012.

A big thanks goes to Léon Brocard (release manager) and all the other contributors to this release.

 Posted by Community Submission at 14:24

Apple’s Xcode 4 breaks installing Perl XS modules from CPAN

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Apr 262011
 

Apple recently released Xcode 4 – their development IDE and toolkit, which is the easiest way to install a compiler on an OSX machine, this version does not contain the PPC assembler target. Unfortunately the version of Perl shipped with OSX was compiled with the ‘-arch ppc’ flags, this means you can not build or install any XS based CPAN modules.

The recommended solution is to stop using the system Perl. By far the easiest way to do this is to install Perlbrew (which does not use XS, so can still be installed under Xcode 4), this has the added bonus that it allows you to switch between different versions of Perl very quickly – ideal for checking your code works consistently.

Arguably this is an Apple bug, but it is not known if or when they will fix it, so it’s best to take a proactive approach. Installing Perlbrew really is easy and creates a much cleaner development environment.

Simon Wistow has posted more details.

 Posted by Community Submission at 06:23

The 2011 Google Summer of Code starts soon

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Mar 212011
 

The Perl Foundation (TPF) is looking for students and mentors to join in with this year’s Google Summer of Code, which gives students a chance to earn summer money while participating in an open-source project. The Perl Foundation, as in past years, serves as the coordinating organization for Summer of Code projects in the Perl community. Student participation opens on March 28 (see the entire timeline).

There are several ways that you can help:

Potential students and mentors can contact Florian Ragwitz (Rafl) or #soc-help on IRC.

 Posted by Community Submission at 13:54

Italian Perl Workshop 2011 – Call for Papers

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Mar 182011
 

The Italian Perl Workshop 2011 is accepting talk submissions.

This year’s theme for the workshop is Two Perls, to present Perl 5 and Perl 6 topics at the same workshop. The theme is, however, just a loose guideline: the workshop is interested in any Perl-related submission.

 Posted by Community Submission at 14:26
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