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Greetings from the post-OSCON 2007 Perl newsletter. This mailing goes out
twice a month (that's 24 times a year, not 26) to a few thousand of
Perl.com's closest friends. Here's what has happened since the previous
newsletter.

* Perl News

The White Camel awards are a staple of OSCON. This year, they went to
Allison Randal, Tim O'Reilly, and Norbert E. Grüner. Congratulations to
all three:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/25/1617256

Andrew Ford released a new quick reference card for the Perl debugger;
this makes 10 Perl-related cards on refcards.com:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/0524235

Kirrily Robert launched the Perl Survey, a five-minute survey to gather
information about who you (yes, YOU) are, in order to help everyone
understand who uses Perl and how and why. Please fill out the survey, if
you agree with its usage terms, and pass it on to your friends and
colleagues:

http://news.perlfoundation.org/2007/07/help_the_perl_community_better.html
http://perlsurvey.org/

Mike Schilli has put videos of some of the Perl Lightning Talks at OSCON
online. Thank you, Mike! (Of particular note are Julian Cash and Pudge,
though they're all worth watching.)

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/02/182239

YAPC::NA looks like it will be in Columbus, Ohio or Chicago, Illinois. TPF
has released the bid details for both (but how about a West Coast YAPC?):

http://news.perlfoundation.org/2007/08/yapcna2008_columbuspm_bid.html
http://news.perlfoundation.org/2007/08/yapcna2008_chicagopm_bid.html

Your editor minuted the Perl 6 design meetings, minus the OSCON hiatus:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/03/1720217

* Perl at O'Reilly

"Perl is dead," some people say. "Hasn't Ruby or Python or Java or Mono or
Flash or PHP eaten its lunch?" Your editor gives you permission to scoff
in return, especially after reading JT Smith's "Perl is Dead. Long Live
Perl!" The short response is that plenty of people are still getting their
work done on time and well, thanks to Perl and everything the community
has built. Join the discussion, won't you?

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/08/perl_is_dead_long_live_perl.html

At OSCON, your author sneaked into the Haskell track for a couple of
talks. In particular, Simon Peyton-Jones's "A Taste of Haskell" caught his
attention. Why? There's a good balance of conciseness and composability:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/07/a_taste_of_haskell_a_taste_of.html

And then he followed up on a question from Scott Walters, namely "why does
it seem like Java developers are so much better at designing large OO
systems than are Perl developers?"

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/07/why_is_there_more_ooad_in_java.html

Perl Testing notebook guru Ian Langworth provided some thoughts on which
features the next big web framework is likely to have:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/07/on_the_next_big_web_applicatio.html

And he ruminated on absent Perl weblogger Andy Lester's talk on managing
technical debt (your author recommends the simple, six-step program):

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/07/and_managing_up_too.html

Finally, Andy Oram suggested that there are very few reasons anymore to
hold your source code close to your chest:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/07/open_source_convention_you_hav.html

What's coming up? Andy Sylvester will look at refactoring toward the
basic unit of Perl reusability. No, it's not the subroutine. It's the
module.

Modules, modules, modules,
- c
chromatic@oreilly.com
Editor, Perl.com, et cetera
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