Perlcast 13 is out. This is a short one, pretty much just covering the news and one Phalanx module.

News

• Independently Parsing Perl
• 3 weeks until YAPC North America
• YAPC::EU Schedule
• ActivePerl Launched on Mac OS X
• Perl Certification
• Teaching Parrot to Say “PHP”
• Playboy spreads open source software

Phalanx Module

• Net-FTP-Common

The GarageBand.com artist this week was once again Enter the Haggis with Another Round.

Perlcast 12 has been released. This is an exciting episode! There is an interview with David Wheeler of Bricolage. There is a module talk by Kees Cook. And finally, there is the first of our contests for copies of Advanced Perl Programming, Second Edition.

News

• Catalyst Introduction and Tutorial
• Big Nerd Ranch Announces Perl Bootcamp with Andy Lester October 3-7, 2005
• LogicBoxes Introduces Perl API Kit for OrderBox
• Build a Perl/CGI voting system
• Google Summer of Code
• Bricolage ideas for the Google Summer of Code
• The Perl Foundation ideas for the Google Summer of Code
• Perl 5.8.7
• YAPC::NA… get those lightening talks ready

Interview
This weeks interview with David Wheeler, the president of Kineticode and lead developer of Bricolage project. Quite a few linkable items were mentioned in the interview… the one that I’m putting here is for Krang, the CMS system that David said was similar to Bricolage.

Phalanx
Kees Cook was kind enough to provide a talk about Device-SerialPort, which he is currently maintaining.

Lest we not forget that you shouldn’t use Crypt-DES, but should instead turn to Crypt-Rijndael. You have be warned.

Contest
The first O’Reilly give-away starts today… the broken code for the contest should be posted shortly.

GarageBand.com
The GarageBand.com artist this week as the Lemmings with their track More.

Perlcast 11 is out-and-about. I screwed up on the interview this week, so this episode is just me rambling. Still, some cool modules were covered, including a set of list utilities. Also, I finally figured out a decent way to link to CPAN modules… notice the module links below :)

The GarageBand.com artist this week was Owen Gray with his song Mumbo Jumbo.

News

• ApacheFriends.org release of XAMPP
• NewsForge article that links to an IBM article
• The Web Pro News mini-tutorials on vec and LWP::Simple
• Perl.com’s how-to on integrating Perl with Word

Modules

• The first module/modules mentioned this week were the Scalar and List Utilities
• The Phalanx module for the week was DBI. A tutorial can be found here

Perlcast 10 has been released to the world. This week contains Perl news for the week ending on the 21st of May 2005, an interview with Allison Randal of The Perl Foundation, a little talking about scripting GMail and about trusted Perl modules.

This week I had a new mic, which helped a lot with the show sound. However, I also dropped the show bitrate down from 96 to 64. Be sure to let me know if the change is intolerable.

News
Lots of news this week. Below, you can find links to each of the topics mentioned.
YAPC::EU Registration
Call For Lightning Talks
YAPC::EU Call For Venue
Parrot 0.2.0
Perl 5.8.7 RC1
Catalyst 5.2.0
Catalyst PPMS
Intro to Perl at HTML Goodies
Creating A Wireless Access Point
mod_perl 2.0.0

Allison Randal
This week I got to talk with Allision Randal, the President of The Perl Foundation and project manager for Perl 6. Below are some links to things that we talked about in the interview.
Interview at Perl.com
Book Allison Co-Authored
Journal
The Perl Foundation
Onyx Neon

Accessing GMail
Grrr… access gmail through Perl. Here are the modules that I used and a journal entry about the experience.
WWW::GMail (Didn’t Work)
Mail::Webmail::Gmail (Didn’t Work)
GMail::Checker (Worked!!)
My Journal Entry On The Experience

Getting Command Line Options
I cheated and talked about Getopt::Long this week for the Phalanx discussion. On top of that, I wasn’t even prepared.
Getopt::Long

Perlcast number nine has been released. I’m a little irritated with this cast. There is some background clicking noise that I couldn’t stop from happening. I’m not sure what I was doing, but it hurts the sound quality… I even tried a complete second take, but couldn’t make it go away. Oh well, by next week I should have my new mic setup and will have overall better sound quality anyway.

News Items Covered This Week

1. SVK version 1 has been released. svk is a decentralized version control system written in Perl. It uses the Subversion filesystem but provides additional, powerful features. In its current form, svk is a client of remote Subversion, Perforce and CVS repositories to allow for offline operation. A svk-specific server is in its early alpha testing. The Use Perl article notes that the Pugs creator uses svk for his development.
   • Use Perl Article
   • SVK Website
2. Perl.com has an article entitled “Inside YAPC::NA 2005”, which is an interview with Richard Dice, the organizer of the conference. I’ve only made it about half-way through the article so far, but it looks like there are some really cool events planned for the Monday and Tuesday nights of the conference. It looks like you might need your digital cameras and possibly a life jacket :)
   • Perl.com Article
3. CPAN’s first European mirror goes live. They now use Geo DNS to direct all requests from Europe to a box hosted by Digital Craftsman.
   • CPAN News
   • Digital Craftsman
4. Slashdot has a book review of Perl Medic: Transferring Legacy Code by Peter J. Scott. The book, published by Addison Wesley, got a rating of 8 out of 10 from the reviewer, Craig Maloney.
   • Slashdot Book Review
5. Perlcast has been accepted as a basic member of the techpodcasts network. You can find other technical podcasts at techpodcasts.com.

Beginners Talk

This talk was based on a tutorial from an article by David Oswald at Perl Monks and concerns ‘and’ and ‘or’ short-circuit operators in Perl.

Perl Talk

Perlcast is going to try to talk about the modules found on the Phalanx project over the next few (hundred) casts. This week, we discussed CPANPLUS.

Interview

None this week; however, I do have a few lined up. Please let me know who you would like to hear from.

Audio

The GarageBand.com artist for this week was Scotland Barr and The Slow Drags with their song Sun Years.