Perlbuzz news roundup for 2010-07-06

These links are collected from the Perlbuzz Twitter feed. If you have suggestions for news bits, please mail me at andy@perlbuzz.com.

• Detect regex-slowing match variables in your code (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• JT Smith talks WebGUI and plugs modern Perl tools (sourceforge.net)
• Rakudo Star, the first usable release of Rakudo Perl 6, coming on July 29, 2010 (use.perl.org)
• Schwern's perl5i makes Perl 5 awesomer until Perl 6 comes along. (search.cpan.org)
• Perl 5 wiki gets big upgrade (news.perlfoundation.org)
• RT @morungos Devel::SawAmpersand just helped us find and protect against a 200x slowdown in our code!
• RT @pjf Watching @szabgab's Perl on Android talk. Awesome to see it in action. Download at (code.google.com)
• Dist::Zooky converts your existing distributions to Dist::Zilla distros (blogs.perl.org)
• "dzil setup" will make Dist::Zilla easier to get started out of the box (rjbs.manxome.org)
• Validation is overrated (sethgodin.typepad.com)
• Should perlfoundation.org move to WebGUI? (blogs.perl.org)
• What performance increases can we expect as the Perl 6 implementations mature? (stackoverflow.com)
• The draft of @chromatic_x's "Modern Perl: The Book" is now available for review (modernperlbooks.com)
• YAPC::NA 2010 technology overview (blogs.perl.org)
• Four fundamental concepts every Perler should know (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• A user looking for help installing Perl 6: (superuser.com)
• Announcing CPAN Testers 2.0 (blogs.perl.org)
• Using Growl from the command line (blogs.perl.org)
• Installing CPAN modules on SOlaris 10 (blogs.perl.org)
• The marketing of Perl (blogs.perl.org)