Friday, February 02, 2007
Herding Groundhogs
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Happy Groundhog Day, Perl Newsletter subscribers. For the non-Americans in the
readership, this is a strange holiday where so-called reporters gather outside
a groundhog hole and, if the poor hibernating creature emerges to see its
shadow, we leave our calendar well enough alone. Otherwise, we move the spring
equinox up six weeks. (Your editor has never quite figured out how that works.)
Your editor does know how Perl works, though (hence the disturbing dreams of
macros). Here's what's new in the Perl world.
* Perl Events
OSCON 2007 (also known as The Perl Conference 11)'s call for papers expires
Very Soon. Submit your talk and tutorial proposals now, or conference chair
Allison Randal will not let you into the conference.
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/17/069232
YAPC::NA 2007 in Houston, Texas has announced its CFP as well:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/26/0033204
The fabulous Ann Barcomb announced the European Perl Hackathon in the
Netherlands from 2 - 4 March. All you need is a laptop:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/31/2033239
* Perl News
A minor storm gathered around the release of a module named XML::Tiny. In
question is the goal of the ::Tiny modules, the value of releasing modules
that deliberately do only a subset of a larger task, and potential confusion
in the names:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/29/1318231
Ann Barcomb has summarized the weeks in Perl 6:
http://use.perl.org/~kudra/journal/32143
http://use.perl.org/~kudra/journal/32224
Your editor has minuted the Perl 6 design meetings:
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/32309
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/32310
The Perl Foundation has announced its latest call for grants:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/02/grants_calls_for_proposals.html
Dave Cross analyzed an interesting job situation in London; there are more
Perl jobs than available hackers:
http://blog.dave.org.uk/archives/001195.html
Perl had able representation in the Plat_Forms web development contest:
http://www.plat-forms.org/2007/blog
* Perl on ORN
HTML::Template is a deceptively simple templating system for web pages. It may
look like it has only a few features, but there's a lot of power in those
features--and there's even more power available without mixing presentation and
business logic. Philipp Janert has followed up on his HTML::Template tags and
filters article with an exploration of building custom widgets and controls:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/02/02/htmltemplate-widgets.html
One article you might have missed during your editor's end-of-year, out-of-the-office
jamboree (where he forgot to write at least one newsletter) is a review
of Komodo 3.5. Yes, Komodo 4.0 is out now, but it takes time to get the new
copy, use it for real work, and see what's great and what didn't quite fit
yet. Here's what Michael J. Ross thought a couple of months ago:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/12/21/komodo-35-for-dynamic-languages.html
Your author started a conversation asking why people contribute to
community documentation:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/why_do_you_contribute_to_commu.html
... after Andy Oram opined about the missing pieces of online
documentation:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/online_documentation_whats_mis.html
Don't forget, the next Parrot Bug Day is 17 February!
PBC to C,
- c
chromatic@oreilly.com
Editor, Perl.com, et cetera
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