Users Groups, Conferences, and Workshops
Announcing the 9th German Perl Workshop
The 9th German Perl-Workshop will take place from Wednesday, 21 Feb. 2007 to Friday, 23 Feb.2007 and you are invited to submit proposals for talks or tutorials. We will happily accept proposals for interesting talks related to Perl.
Dates Set for YAPC::NA 2007
The dates for YAPC::NA 2007 have finally been established! The Houston.pm group and YAPC::NA 2007 organizers are pleased to announce that next year's YAPC::NA will be Monday, June 25th through Wednesday, June 27th, at the University of Houston. You can also visit the YAPC::NA homepage at www.yapc.org—America
New Users Group
The Vlaanderen.pm group was formed last month and are beginning to organize at vlaanderen.pm.org
Perl In Print
State of The Onion 10
Larry Wall's State of the Onion 10 is now online on Perl.com. This talk was presented at OSCON 2006.
Perl Review Fall 2006
The Fall 2006 issue of The Perl Review is online and ready for download. Subscribers should have alread received an email telling them all about it. You can even buy TPR on the newsstand now if you shop at Powell's Technical Books in Portland.
In this issue (besides the cover showing the Larry Wall action figure by ArtCard Mike):
- Google's Summer of Code -- Jim Brandt
- pmtools -- Mark Leighton Fisher
- Parrot Magic Cookies -- Jonathan Scott Duff
- Agent-based Programming in Perl -- Guinevere Nell
- ETL Nightmares -- Thomas MacKenzie
- and more!
Google Code Search
Google has released a code search at www.google.com—codesearch
Modules of Interest
Possibly Yet Another Web Framework
Bigtop 0.18 has been released along with some movies demonstrating its capabilities. Bigtop is a language for describing the data of a web application. Usually this data will be stored in a relational database. Once you have a description of your data, you can generate a web application from it. This includes all the pieces you need like: the sql statements ready for feeding to your database command line tool, the httpd.conf you need to Include in the httpd.conf on your system, the modules that will handle the web requests, the models that make the database tables look like classes, etc. Search for BigTop on CPAN to find out more.
Parting Words
The Perl community lost one of its long time contributors, Nick Ing-Simmons, who died of a heart attack on Monday September 25th 2006. Nick was once the Pumpking for Perl 5 and is also a key contributor to the Tk and Encode modules. For more information, please see the Perl Foundation Blog entry at news.perlfoundation.org.