Perl News 2006-12-02

Randal Schwartz is back with another dose of Perl news.

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Jerrad Pierce on the Perl Advent Calendar

Jerrad Pierce pointed out the Perl Advent Calendar to me today, so I called him up to talk a little about what the calendar is and what we can expect. The first item is already up for everyone to enjoy. Also, don't miss out on the Catalyst Advent Calendar over at catalystframework.org.

• Interview Audio


• The Perl Advent Calendar


• Catalyst Advent Calendar

Me On OnLamp

Thanks to Victor over at O'Reilly's OnLamp blogs for putting up an interview with me. Kind of strange being on the other side of the table.

Chip Salzenberg, The Parrot Pump King

Just off the heels of the Chicago Perl Hack-A-Thon, which focused very much on Parrot, I have a great interview with Chip Salzenberg. Chip is a past Perl 5 Pump King and is the current Parrot Pump King.

Parrot, as many of you know, is a virtual machine that is intended be a platform for running Perl 6. Actually, the Parrot virtual machine hopes to run many languages other than Perl 6. There is currently beginning implementations of many languages on Parrot including Ruby and TCL. Parrot is different than many other virtual machines that we know of. It is register-based, as opposed to the common stack-based architectures, and it is designed to run dynamic languages.

Listen to hear what Chip has to say about the state of Parrot and what you can do to help out.

• Interview Audio


• Parrot


• Perl Hack-a-thons

Kirsten Jones on the Socialtext Wiki

Kirsten Jones of Socialtext talked with us here at Perlcast about the REST API beta available now on thier wiki. Socialtext is a company based around a powerful wiki written largely in Perl. The wiki was recently open sourced and is available for download at SourceForge.

• Interview Audio


• Socialtext OPEN on Sourceforge


• Invitation to REST Beta

Interview with Bill Odom, President of TPF

Bill Odom, President of The Perl Foundation, sat down with me at the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop to talk a little about The Perl Foundation and how it is helping to support Perl and the Perl community. In the interview Bill talks about a wide range of topics including how he sees TPF helping drive the continued success and adoption of Perl as a programming language for years to come.

• Interview Audio


• The Perl Foundation


• TPF Blog

Perl Hacks Winners

Congratulations to all of the winners of our "Perl Hacks" book give-away and thanks to O'Reilly for providing and shipping the books for the giveaway. We had five winners from around the globe... Todd C. from Michigan, Timothy P. from Wisconsin, Vincent F. from Canada, Arjen L. from The Netherlands, and Ian B. from the UK.

Check back soon for more contests and book giveaways at Perlcast.