use PerlAll the Perl that's Practical to Extract and ReportQA Hackathon in Birmingham- August 14, 2008 barbie writes "After a successful QA Hackathon in Oslo earlier this year, Birmingham.pm are delighted to be able to announce that a second QA Hackathon will take place in Birmingham, UK. Dates have yet to be confirmed, but we expect the event to take place in MarchApril 2009. More details will forthcoming soon, so please check the new website — qa-hackathon.org — and the usual news outlets, and we will make further announcements in due course. We are happy to talk to anyone wishing..http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/14/0626252&from=rss Pittsburgh Perl Workshop CFP now open!- August 13, 2008 ehdonhon writes "PPW 2008 is just a few months away. That means now is the time to submit a talk proposal. Haven't you been doing cool stuff with Perl Of course you have! Then why not share the fun with the whole Perl community Give a talk at PPW 2008! Just go to pghpw.org and submit a talk proposal. It's that easy. But don't delay. Get your proposal in soon — or else you might miss out. Seize the day! Own the fun! Submit a talk proposal for PPW 2008 now!"Read more of this story at use...http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/13/2115245&from=rss Pasting repository info on CPAN page- August 13, 2008 Out of the comments generated by a post by grink, I've learned that the location of the distribution's repository can be inserted in the META.yml. Neato! And when grink asked if someone could come up with a Greasemonkey script to extract that information and show it on the distro's page... well, that's no simian fun I could let pass untackled. The resulting greasemonkey script can be found on userscripts.org.Read more of this story at use Perl.http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/13/065232&from=rss YAPC::EU::2009 news on Twitter, Jaiku, and Pownce- August 12, 2008 While the venue of YAPC::EU::2009 has not been announced yet, the future organizers will be using Twitter, Jaiku, and Pownce accounts, in order to help improve the communication with the attendees.With the next venue being announced at this year's YAPC::EU in Copenhagen (on August 13th), maybe next year organizers will also make the announcement with these accounts in real time (for those not attending the conference).Read more of this story at use Perl.http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/12/1527219&from=rss Italian Perl Workshop 2008 guest speakers- August 12, 2008 Thanks to the sponsors, this year we have invited several Perl "celebrities": Tim Bunce, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Marcus Ramberg and Matt S Trout. They don't need for additional info :-) The IPW 2008 edition will be a great edition, so don't miss it! Italian Perl Workshop 2008Read more of this story at use Perl.http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/12/1528205&from=rss Parallel tests for the win- August 9, 2008 Test::Harness 3 has the ability to run regression tests in parallel. Until recently, in parallel mode, it would treat all tests as being in one pool, and choose any order of running tests, to maintain the desired number of jobs running concurrently. This is certainly KISS-approved, and useful if any arbitrary pair of your tests can run simultaneously without tripping over each other, due to using the same resources, such as test databases or temporary files. However, some distributions have...http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/09/1335240&from=rss Yet another Russian translation of brian's guide- August 8, 2008 Anatoly Sharifulin, the leader of RostovOnDon.pm, has translated brian's guide on solving any Perl problem into Russian. We've published it in both HTML and POD versions.This translation is very close to the original text, and a couple of items are translated quite interesting. First, the The Daily Show with Jon Stewart was localized with Russian TV-reality. Second, several occurences of noun "master" (a word, which has no suitable direct translation) was translated with a word "guru", which...http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/08/0146249&from=rss Perl courses with Damian Conway (August 08 Zurich)- August 5, 2008 zaucker writes "There are still some free places in the course on various Perl and non-Perl topics by Damian Conway held on August 18th to 21st 2008 from 9:00 to 17:00 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. Follow the link on the overview page to register."Read more of this story at use Perl.http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/05/0011238&from=rss 15 Proposals for Third Quarter of TPF Grants- August 1, 2008 The Perl Foundation grants committee received 15 proposals during the third call for grant proposals for 2008. These proposals are published for public discussion. You are invited to comment each proposal about its relevance and objectives.During the month of July we received the following grant proposals:Read more of this story at use Perl.http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/01/2051231&from=rss CPAN Testers BOF at YAPC::EU 2008- August 1, 2008 YAPCs are always a good opportunity to meet other perl users. As the organisers of this year's YAPC::EU in Copenhagen have been good enough to allow me to do a talk on CPAN Testing, Barbie and myself will be arranging a CPAN Testers Birds of Feather (BOF) session.Barbie's original announcement:This BOF is for anyone who is or wants to be a CPAN Tester. A chance to air any thoughts for improving CPAN testing and highlight any common pitfalls experienced by current testers. Also a chance for...http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/01/2051254&from=rss |