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• Open source is improv, so say "Yes and" (petdance.com)
• craigslist donates $100,000 to the Perl Foundation (news.perlfoundation.org)
• Text::AsciiTeX renders TeX formulas as ASCII art (blogs.perl.org)
• The most important pig in the office (with nod to @chipsalz, too) (petdance.com)
• An hour-long video of Damian Conway talking Perl and physics (blip.tv)
• Speed up Perlbrew with parallel tests (modernperlbooks.com)
• Visualizing the Perl 5 support policy (dagolden.com)
• MooseX::Role::Loggable adds logging goodness to your objects (blogs.perl.org)
• Rakudo Star 2012.01 released (rakudo.org)
• What's next in Rakudo (6guts.wordpress.com)
• I'll be presenting "29 ways to get started in open source today" at YAPC:NA (act.yapcna.org)
• DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop is April 14th. $25 for two tracks of talks. (dcbpw.org)

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• Perl interface to the nginx web server (blogs.perl.org)
• The 2011 Perl 6 coding contest: Write Perl 6 code, win $100 of prizes (strangelyconsistent.org)
• Perl documentation is awesome (blogs.perl.org)
• YAPC::NA 2012 is now accepting talk proposals (blogs.perl.org)
• A look back at Perl 2011 (onionstand.blogspot.com)
• Installing Citrus Perl on OS X (blogs.perl.org)
• How do I debug memory usage? (blogs.perl.org)
• Perl::Critic finds annoying little bugs in your code (perlbuzz.com)
• (changes.cpanhq.org) checks your Changes file for standards compliance. Whether that's useful is left as an exercise to the reader
• Andrew Dunstan says the Perl 5 bug tracker is "worse than useless". (people.planetpostgresql.org)

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• Tracking users with Plack and Catalyst (modernperlbooks.com)
• FOSDEM 2012 in Brussels is looking for Perl speakers (nxadm.wordpress.com)
• Why is ack packaged as ack-grep? (blogs.perl.org)
• DBIx::Connector reduces the technical friction of managing DBI connections (perladvent.org)
• Minecraft-like game written in Perl and C (ue.o---o.eu)

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• Brazilian Perl Mongers team wins Latin America web app contest (perlnews.org)
• Use system or exec safely on Windows (blogs.perl.org)
• Check out the slick YAPC::NA 2012 idea booth. Vote on what you would like to see. (ideas.yapcna.org)
• How to give a conference presentation, by MJD (petdance.com)
• How to make disposable web servers for testing (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• Command line tricks in Perl (perladvent.org)
• Carp::Always::Color is Carp::Always with color (metacpan.org)
• RT @rjbs Remember, if you build a tied fh with your own PRINT, you have to respect $\ for "say" to work: (gist.github.com)
• RT @hoelzro me wonders if this year someone should write an advent calendar entry for each #moose clone =P #perl
• Updates to Neil Bowers' CPAN module reviews (blogs.perl.org)
• What does CATALYST_DEBUG do? (blogs.perl.org)
• Zoidberg, modular Perl shell (blogs.perl.org)
• MongoDBI, interface to MongoDB (blogs.perl.org)
• Use B::Stats to check for bloat (blogs.perl.org)
• Track app progress with writeable $0 (modernperlbooks.com)

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• Know the difference between character strings and UTF-8 strings (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• perl1line.txt, @pkrumins' collection of Perl one-liners (catonmat.net)
• Tel Aviv Perl Mongers meeting (blogs.perl.org)
• YAPC::NA 2012 will s/auction/raffle/. (blog.yapcna.org)
• Optimize your tests for parallel execution (modernperlbooks.com)
• Return error objects instead of throwing exceptions (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• All about split's special cases (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• Falling in love with Pod::Weaver (blogs.perl.org)
• Finding a lost dog's owner with WWW::Mechanize (perlbuzz.com)
• Gabor Szabo's "Beginning Perl Maven" class (szabgab.com)

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• File-at-a-time test coverage with Devel::Cover (modernperlbooks.com)
• What I learned at the Twin City (Austria) Perl Workshop 2011 (domm.plix.at)
• Add ack's Google+ page to your circles (plus.google.com)
• Introduction to writing tests with Test::More (perltraining.com.au)
• Benchmarking Marpa vs. regexes for parsing (blogs.perl.org)
• Debugging tips for Inline::C (blogs.perl.org)
• RT @bradfitz Hey #Perl, are times that tough? Where can I donate $50 so you guys can buy a real SSL certificate for (pause.cpan.org?)
• What Perl compiler modules could have been (modernperlbooks.com)
• Handy regular expressions part VII from @pkrumins (catonmat.net)
• Technical quality is an insurance policy (modernperlbooks.com)
• Graphic time-based data in Perl (preshweb.co.uk)
• Pegasus is Module::Starter for DBIx::Class (blogs.perl.org)
• What brian d foy learned from YAPC::Brasil (blogs.perl.org)
• Data::Printer: A colored data structure pretty printer (onionstand.blogspot.com)
• Data::Printer is handy for debugging data structures (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• Padre 0.92 adds Perl 6 support and other features (blogs.perl.org)
• Should YAPC::NA 2012 have an unconference? (blogs.perl.org)

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• HTTP::Tiny is a simple HTTP client library. (dereferenced.com)
• Web framework Mojolicious releases version 2.0 (blog.kraih.com)
• Spreadsheet::WriteExcel is dead. Long live Excel::Writer::XLSX (xrl.us)
• YAPC::Asia was awesome says @rjbs (rjbs.manxome.org)
• Asynchronous MySQL queries with DBD::mysql and AnyEvent (from @hoelzro) (xrl.us)
• Perl presentation at Columbus Code Camp (blogs.perl.org)
• A glimpse of YAPC::Asia Tokyo 2011 (blogs.perl.org)
• Nicholas Clark has done some great work on Perl 5 this month (news.perlfoundation.org)
• DBD::mysql 4.019 and 4.020 are broken on Win32. How to downgrade: (xrl.us)
• You can now log into the YAPC::NA site with Twitter (blog.yapcna.org)
• A simple config for the Perl debugger (blogs.perl.org)
• Gabor laments poor Perl gathering visibility (blogs.perl.org)
• Getting my mind blown by @rjbs in "Email Hates the Living" (youtube.com)
• Survey of modules for parsing User-Agent strings (blogs.perl.org)
• PrePAN is a social reviewing site for Perl modules (blogs.perl.org)
• Perl tutorials suck, and cause serious damage (blogs.perl.org)
• Perl Foundation needs your help for Google Code-In (blogs.perl.org)
• Help proofread the new edition of Modern Perl (modernperlbooks.com)
• Mark Atwood says CPAN takes over his box (machinesplusminds.blogspot.com)
• Freshmeat is now freecode.com (freecode.com)
• Help come up with tasks for students for Google Code-In (blogs.perl.org)

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• RT @briandfoy_perl Huh, the new look for (lists.perl.org) is really slick. Leo Lapworth really deserves his White Camel Award.
• RT @parrotvm We are converting our Trac wiki to @Github! (github.com) If you want to help, let us know!
• Perl, C and Dr. Dennis Ritchie (blogs.perl.org)
• Trial releases with Dist::Zilla (blogs.perl.org)
• Handy guide to core module activity (blogs.perl.org)
• Photos from YAPC::Asia in Tokyo (blogs.perl.org)
• Announcing namespace::sweep (blogs.perl.org)
• Why do you want new major Perl features? (blogs.perl.org)

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• (learn.perl.org) has been relaunched
• learn.perl.org has been relaunched
• If you use EBCDIC in Perl, better speak up now (nntp.perl.org)
• Modules to spell out numbers in English (blogs.perl.org)
• How to learn Perl (modernperlbooks.com)
• Hooray for @github's new Issues Dashboard. Issues aggregated across all your projects. (github.com)
• Net-a-Porter adds $10,000 to the Perl 5 CMF (news.perlfoundation.org)
• See twelve lightning talks from @mjdominus at #pghpw (pghpw.org)
• Implementing WWW::LastFM (blog.robin.smidsrod.no)
• RT @schwern Ever written eval "require $module"? Congratulations! You have a SECURITY HOLE! Replace it with eval {require $module}.

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• Introduction to Perl using the Padre editor (i-programmer.info)
• Mark Keating introduces us to $foo magazine and Renée Bäcker (news.perlfoundation.org)
• What did attendees think of YAPC::NA 2011? (yapc-surveys.org)
• Marketing YAPC::Asia 2011 (blogs.perl.org)
• August has been busy for metacpan (blogs.perl.org)
• Which IP geolocation module should you use? (blogs.perl.org)
• Pitfalls with Jenkins+Perl (blogs.perl.org)