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Mark Keating (mdk): Video killed the presenting star…
Perl Oasis and LPW2011 Videos: Some Personal Recommendations In the previous three weeks it has been a pleasure to be able to finally get both the videos for the London Perl Workshop 2011 and the 2012 Perl Oasis videos up on Presenting Perl for the e [...]
Ulrich Habel (rhaen): Updating p5-* packages in pkgsrc
I am updating Perl packages in pkgsrc right now. pkgsrc is the package management system from the NetBSD project and … Learn more
chromatic: Avoiding The Vendor Perl Fad Diet
Here we go again. It looks like Red Hat is distributing Perl without the core library ExtUtils::MakeMaker. If you're not familiar with the details of the Perl 5 build chain, all you need to know is this: without MakeMaker, you're...
Michael Rasmussen (mikeraz): Memes from 2012-01-25
Craigslist has enough cash to fund a charitable foundation? Yeps. Gave $100,000 to the Perl Foundation. http://t.co/dCB6DiZV via @OvidPerl # Rules of American Justice: a tale of 3 cases just from yesterday http://t.co/8pmkAG2B via @ggreenwald # Power [...]
Ulrich Habel (rhaen): A new hope – package repository for RHEL 6 based Linux
Everyone needs software which is not in the repositories. That happens from time to time and usually you end up … Learn more
Jochen Hayek: perl: XML::LibXML::XPathContext - registerNs
XML::LibXML::XPathContext - XPath Evaluation - metacpan.org

If your XML has a namespace without prefix (xmlns="…" instead of xmlns:aaa="…", where 'aaa' would be called the prefix), you still have to provide registerNs with a proper prefix and use tha [...]
Jochen Hayek: syndication feeds for blogs on Blogger.com take CGI parameters
You can find the URL-s of the Atom and the RSS feeds for such a blog in its HTML. There are link elements with rel="alternate" and type="application/atom+xml" resp. type="application/rss+xml".

Within the XML of an Atom feed I found a link element wi [...]
Cosimo Streppone (cosimo): Perl client for Etsy statsd, improved and released v0.02 on CPAN

Sometimes bugs reported on the CPAN issue tracker are the perfect excuse to improve your code. In this case, my client module for Etsy statsd service, Net::Statsd, got an update because of this ticket, RT#74172.

As with all my recent CPAN module, when [...]

chromatic: A Decades-Old Technique to Improve Programming Languages
I promised in Testing Your Templates to explain how to solve the problem of the divergence between testable, debuggable code in your host language and a big wad of logic in a template language. This problem is an example of...
Andrew Shitov (ash): Perlburg-3
18 февраля в Екатеринбурге состоится третий Perl-воркшоп Perlburg. Сайт мероприятия, прием докладов и запись участников открыты! Приглашаем зайти на огонек: event.perlrussia.org/perlburg3. Регистрация и участие бесплатные....
Mark Keating (mdk): QA Hackathon
Introduction The QA Hackathon is a free of charge coding workshop for people involved in Quality Assurance, testing, packaging, CPAN, and other projects related to quality assurance. The workshop is not necessarily exclusive to Perl projects, however [...]
Andrew Shitov (ash): Даты и место YAPC::Europe 2012
Организаторы YAPC::Europe 2012 объявили о датах и месте проведения мероприятия. Конференция пройдет с 20 по 22 августа (понедельник — среда) 2012 года в помещении Франкфуртского университета имени Гёте....
David Golden: Visualizing the Perl 5 support policy
My last post showed historical Perl 5 release cycles, but comments I got on and off the blog suggested that my vaguely positive sentiments about the official support policy were misunderstood. This post expands and clarifies my view. I have redone my [...]
Renee Baecker: YAPC::Europe 2012: Datum und Ort stehen jetzt fest
Endlich können wir das Datum und den Ort der diesjährigen YAPC::EU bekanntgeben: Die YAPC::Europe 2012 wird vom 20.-22. August 2012 an der Goethe Universität in Frankfurt stattfinden.

Die Webseite werden wir regelmäßig mit neuen Informationen bestücke [...]
Shlomi Fish (rindolf): git tip: adding remotes to .git/config

When working with the git version control system and editing .git/config to add a new remote, some people may be tempted to copy and change the origin remote that reads something like:

[remote "origin"]
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
        u [...]
miguel prz (niceperl): (xii) stackoverflow perl report

This is the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: question score & answers count
Built date: 2012/01/21 19:30:35 GMT


  1. Why is the year value in Perl's localtime function (and C's tm struct) relative to 1900? - [11/4]
  2. In Pe [...]
Goro Fuji (GFUJI): 「PHPの最初のバージョンはPerlで書かれていた」は都市伝説?

[追記]

どうやら、最初の個人用のホームページ管理スクリプトがPerlで書かれ、後にそれをCで書きなおしたものを"Personal Home Page Tools" 1.0として公開、というのが真相のようだ。

つまり、PHPの最初のバージョンがPerlで書かれていた、というのは都市伝説ではなく事実である

PHP: PHP/FI Version 2.0 Documentation

PHP began life as a simple little cgi wrapper written in Perl [...]

David Golden: Visualizing Perl 5 release cycles
Beginning with Perl 5, version 12, the Perl 5 language began an annual release cycle, with a new stable release around May of each year. Beginning with version 14, the Perl 5 maintainers also announced a formal support policy and ended support for ve [...]
Mark Fowler (Trelane): Frac’ing your HTML
In my previous blog entry I talked about encoding weird characters into HTML entities. In this entry I’m going to talk about converting some patterns of ASCII – dumb ways of writing fractions – and turning them into HTML entities or Unicode character [...]
Herbert Breunung: sorta Perl 6 grant report
uh yes I have a running grant and want to close it in 2012 even it will take much more effort than just written down in the proposal. I was a bit shy with that to don't get rejected. I...
Jochen Hayek: Perl Cookbook, ch. 22.6: XML::LibXML and XPath for "Finding Elements and Text Within an XML Document"
Perl Cookbook, 2nd Edition - O'Reilly Media

Not a really lengthy recipe, but still.
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