The MetaCPAN team have announced a competition to design them a logo, the winning entry will get a prize of $400 USD, not to mention having their design used on this great site.
The prize has been provided by the Enlightened Perl Organisation
The deadline is the 13th of January 2012, so make sure to have your laptop with you over the holiday season.
For more information visit http://contest.metacpan.org/ or see the entries so far.
Strawberry Perl, an enhanced distribution for Windows, has a new maintainer, KMX and a new preview release for Perl 5.14.2.
http://prepan.org/ was recently launched at http://yapcasia.org/2011/ and was announced to the rest of the Perl community by @kentaro.
The site focuses on code review and discussions, with the goal of helping module authors get feedback, suggestions and help before they upload a new module to CPAN.
This is a really interesting idea and is getting lots of use even after having been live for only a couple of days. There are several changes and additions planned for the future, so this is definitely a site to keep an eye on.
http://learn.perl.org/ has been rewritten and relaunched, along with basic step by step guides to installing and using Perl, there are screencasts and some useful examples.
The PerlFAQ (previously hosted at http://faq.perl.org/) is now integrated to the learning website and can be found at http://learn.perl.org/faq/.
There are further changes planned for both the learning website and PerlFAQ in the near future.
The White Camel Awards recognize outstanding, non-technical achievement in Perl. Started in 1999 by Perl mongers and later merged with The Perl Foundation, the awards committee selects three names from a long list of worthy Perl volunteers to recognize hard work in Perl Community, Perl Conferences, and Perl User Groups. For the past two years, these awards have been managed by The Perl Review in conjunction with the The Perl Foundation.
This year, the White Camels recognize the efforts of these people whose hard work has made Perl and the Perl community a better place:
You may have noticed that many of the core Perl sites, such as www.cpan.org and www.perl.org look a lot different. Indeed, they look a lot better. Perl, being very popular in the early days of the web, it’s websites settled on the early features and never left them. Leo Lapworth dragged many of the Perl websites into the modern age and made them look more attractive at the same time. Not only that, he’s one of the driving forces behind Perl News. Surely there’s more to come from Leo, too. For this, we recognize Leo Lapworth for the 2011 White Camel Award for Perl community.
If you’re doing Perl in Japan, you’ve probably run into Daisuke Maki. He’s active in Shibuya.pm and many of the YAPC::Asia. He also started the Japan Perl Association, the counterpart to The Perl Foundation and YAPC::Europe Foundation. For this, we recognize Daisuke Maki for the 2011 White Camel Award for Outstanding Contribution to Perl user groups.
If there were a contest for the most Perl events organized, Andrew would most likely be the winner. The number of conferences isn’t the only category he’d win though. He’s not content just to organized conferences in his own country, Russia, but also in Bulgaria, the Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan, and many others. He’s also win the competition for organizing two events the farthest apart: The Second Russian Perl Workshop in Vladivostok and YAPC::EU 2011 in Rīga, Latvia. That’s still not enough. He’s the moving force behind YAPC::TV, which collects videos from Perl events and lets you view them for free. For this, we recognize Andrew Shitov for the 2011 White Camel Award for Perl conferences.
Perl 5.14 has been officially released.
Some of the key changes are:
A big thanks goes to Jesse Vincent (release manager) and all the 150 contributors to this release.
The second release candidate for Perl 5.14.0 is available for download from CPAN.
Since RC1:
While Perl5-Porters go to great lengths to ensure that new versions of Perl don’t break existing programs, it does happen. It’s really, really important that all unintentional breakages are caught before the final release of Perl 5.14.0.
As always, don’t get rid of your old perl before you know your stuff works with the new one.
If no “showstopper” class bugs are found in the next 7 days, Perl5-Porters will release a virtually identical tarball as Perl 5.14.0 on Wednesday, May 11.
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.
The first release candidate for Perl 5.14.0 is available for download from CPAN.
While Perl5-Porters go to great lengths to ensure that new versions of Perl don’t break existing programs, it does happen. It’s really, really important that all unintentional breakages are caught before the final release of Perl 5.14.0.
It is imperative that you test this release candidate with any software written in Perl which you use or maintain. As always, don’t get rid of your old perl before you know your stuff works with the new one.
If no “showstopper” class bugs are found in the next 7 days, Perl5-Porters will release a virtually identical tarball as Perl 5.14.0 on Thursday, April 28, 2011.
The Mojolicious team have released version 1.16 which fixes a serious security vulnerability.
You are advised to upgrade immediately.
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