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Greetings from the post-OSCON 2007 Perl newsletter. This
mailing goes out
twice a month (that's 24 times a year, not 26) to a few
thousand of
Perl.com's closest friends. Here's what has happened since
the previous
newsletter.
* Perl News
The White Camel awards are a staple of OSCON. This year,
they went to
Allison Randal, Tim O'Reilly, and Norbert E. Grüner.
Congratulations to
all three:
h
ttp://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/25/1617256
Andrew Ford released a new quick reference card for the Perl
debugger;
this makes 10 Perl-related cards on refcards.com:
h
ttp://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/0524235
Kirrily Robert launched the Perl Survey, a five-minute
survey to gather
information about who you (yes, YOU) are, in order to help
everyone
understand who uses Perl and how and why. Please fill out
the survey, if
you agree with its usage terms, and pass it on to your
friends and
colleagues:
http://news.perlfoundation.org/2007/07
/help_the_perl_community_better.html
http://perlsurvey.org/
Mike Schilli has put videos of some of the Perl Lightning
Talks at OSCON
online. Thank you, Mike! (Of particular note are Julian Cash
and Pudge,
though they're all worth watching.)
ht
tp://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/02/182239
YAPC::NA looks like it will be in Columbus, Ohio or Chicago,
Illinois. TPF
has released the bid details for both (but how about a West
Coast YAPC?):
http://news.perlfoundation.org/2007/08/yapc
na2008_columbuspm_bid.html
http://news.perlfoundation.org/2007/08/yapcn
a2008_chicagopm_bid.html
Your editor minuted the Perl 6 design meetings, minus the
OSCON hiatus:
h
ttp://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/03/1720217
* Perl at O'Reilly
"Perl is dead," some people say. "Hasn't Ruby
or Python or Java or Mono or
Flash or PHP eaten its lunch?" Your editor gives you
permission to scoff
in return, especially after reading JT Smith's "Perl is
Dead. Long Live
Perl!" The short response is that plenty of people are
still getting their
work done on time and well, thanks to Perl and everything
the community
has built. Join the discussion, won't you?
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/b
log/2007/08/perl_is_dead_long_live_perl.html
At OSCON, your author sneaked into the Haskell track for a
couple of
talks. In particular, Simon Peyton-Jones's "A Taste of
Haskell" caught his
attention. Why? There's a good balance of conciseness and
composability:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp
/blog/2007/07/a_taste_of_haskell_a_taste_of.html
And then he followed up on a question from Scott Walters,
namely "why does
it seem like Java developers are so much better at designing
large OO
systems than are Perl developers?"
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlam
p/blog/2007/07/why_is_there_more_ooad_in_java.html
Perl Testing notebook guru Ian Langworth provided some
thoughts on which
features the next big web framework is likely to have:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlam
p/blog/2007/07/on_the_next_big_web_applicatio.html
And he ruminated on absent Perl weblogger Andy Lester's talk
on managing
technical debt (your author recommends the simple, six-step
program):
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007
/07/and_managing_up_too.html
Finally, Andy Oram suggested that there are very few reasons
anymore to
hold your source code close to your chest:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlam
p/blog/2007/07/open_source_convention_you_hav.html
What's coming up? Andy Sylvester will look at refactoring
toward the
basic unit of Perl reusability. No, it's not the subroutine.
It's the
module.
Modules, modules, modules,
- c
chromatic oreilly.com
Editor, Perl.com, et cetera
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