Perlcast is back with an interview with Jeffrey Thalhammer, the creator and maintainer of Perl Critic, a static source code analyzer for Perl written in Perl. In the interview Jeffrey talks about what Perl Critic is, why he created it, and where he sees the system going.
Welcome back to Perlcast! We have a great round of shows lined up for the new year starting with none other than Tim Bunce talking about the future of the Perl DBI. Based on the interview, it looks like we’ll need to take the word ‘Perl’ out from in front of DBI because it looks like Tim has big plans for the future of the distribution.
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.
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.
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.
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