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briandfoy_perl

  1. @leprevostfv You can send postcards to The Perl Review to the address on our contact page: theperlreview.com/contact.html
  2. yfrog.com/kekkmcxj This cross-stitched originally appeared on a cover of The Perl Review. Now it's on my wall.
  3. I'll be at Portland Perl Mongers, Sunday, May 20 at 7pm at Paddy's on 65 SW Yamhill. It looks like we won't see not seeing the sun.
  4. @oddlid I'll be in Stockholm the week before OSCON. I'd like to get together with any Swedish Perl mongers who are around. :)
  5. And, on the evening of Sunday the 21st, I hope to hang out with some Portland Perl mongers, although we don't have definite plans yet.
  6. On Tuesday the 22nd , I'm at Marchex in Seattle for a Seattle Perl Users Group meeting. seattleperl.org
  7. @am0c You can still send your comments on Intermediate Perl to me. Just email them. Thanks :)
  8. Fixing bugs instead of explaining them: David Golden, one of the reviewers for Intermediate Perl, gave me extens... bit.ly/JCsWFM
  9. Instead of me explaining in Intermediate Perl the edge cases in Test::Output, David Golden just fixed Test::Output bit.ly/JcSlCP
  10. I just gave Intermediate Perl to O'Reilly. It's their turn to play with it and turn it into a book. Thanks for everyone's help. :)
  11. Perlybook turns your module's documentation into ePub and Mobi formats perlybook.org
  12. Perl 5.16.0-RC0 is available: cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5…
  13. How do you update your system Perl?: Although I'm an advocate of configuring and installing your own perl while ... bit.ly/Krr97d
  14. @orangeacme announced WWW::UsePerl::Server: Pudge and I are going to setup useperl.org to host an instance.
  15. Get 20% off OSCON with OS12FOS. Come to my Mastering Perl tutorial on Tuesday afternoon. bit.ly/JgIYF6
  16. There are going to be many Perl authors at YAPC::NA blog.yapcna.org/post/227170402…
  17. Major writing operations in Intermediate Perl have ended. Email me if you'd like to review it before I send it in next week.
  18. @unixandperl Yes, I want to review your new Perl book. I downloaded it a month ago and read the first few chapters. It was good so far. :)
  19. Multiple package VERSION declarations: I’m re-reading the parts of Intermediate Perl where we introduce packages... bit.ly/Kjq14x
  20. It's Day Against DRM! O'Reilly has 50% off it's always-DRM-free ebooks today. Use DRMFREE to buy Programming Perl dld.bz/byC3a