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News: White Camel Awards

posted by davorg on 2009.07.24 5:00

Last night at OSCON, this year's White Camel Award winners were announced. The winners were:

Tim Bunce
Michael Schwern
Philippe Bruhat (BooK)

I hope you'll agree that they are three very deserving winners. The Perl community is lucky to have them.

Congratulations to all the winners.

Module Listings: New CPAN Distributions for July 23, 2009

News: Parrot 1.4.0 "Mundo Cani" Released!

posted by davorg on 2009.07.23 7:08

cotto writes "On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 1.4.0 "Mundo Cani." Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.

Parrot 1.4.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site, or follow the download instructions. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Subversion on our source code repository to get the latest and best Parrot code.

Module Listings: New CPAN Distributions for July 22, 2009

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News: Beijing Perl Workshop, September 19th, 2009

posted by davorg on 2009.07.20 6:00

Qiang writes "PerlChina is organizing another free one day event of Beijing Perl Workshop this year on September 19th (Saturday). Yes, It is happening one week after the awesome YAPC::Asia and it is only less than 4 hours flight away from Japan. If you have ever been fascinated by the Chinese (the food, the great wall or the great firewall :) or chinese perl hackers), This is an awesome opportunity!

Module Listings: New CPAN Distributions for July 19, 2009

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Testing needed for all-new Strawberry July Release Candidate

Journal written by Alias (5735) and posted by brian_d_foy on 2009.07.17 15:28

After 9 months of hard work put in by the amazing Curtis Jewell, I'm happy to confirm that the Strawberry Perl is finally going ahead with the long-awaited switch-over from an .exe to a .msi installer.

Strawberry Perl July 2009 will be first release from the completely rewritten 4th generation distribution generator, built on the Microsoft Open Source WiX installer toolchain.

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Major update to perldoc.perl.org

Journal written by jj (2990) and posted by brian_d_foy on 2009.07.17 15:27

I'm pleased to announce a significant update to perldoc.perl.org, the Perl documentation website.

The main change is a complete new visual design, bringing a fresh, modern look to the site. Additionally there are a number of new features to aid navigation and usability - a floating page index window, recently read pages list, improved Pod rendering, and many more.