"In 2006, the arena of Perl web frameworks pitted the heavyweight Catalyst against the lightweight CGI::Application. Since then Perl’s framework options have continued to evolve. While both CGI::Application and Catalyst remain popular, several new options have appeared lately. Here’s a quick rundown..."

"The Parrot Foundation announced today that the BBC, UK-based public service broadcaster, will join the Parrot Foundation's advisory board. The Parrot Foundation advisory board is made up of a select group of companies who can offer perspective and experience on the current and future applications of the Parrot virtual machine and related language implementations..."

"The second annual FSCons is about to take place in Gothenburg, Sweden the 24th to the 26th of October. I am giving a talk about Perl and debian, and there are lots of good talks this year as well as the second Nordic Free Software Award, won last year by Skolelinux. We hope you'll attend if you are in the neighborhood!"

Looking at the difference between combinations and permutations with a little combo generating code.

"Moritz Lenz has started a series of blog posts about moving from Perl 5 to Perl 6, including why some design choices were made, and how you can take advantage of some of the Perl 6 features today in Perl 5..."

Wanna learn Perl? Huh? Do ya, do ya, do ya? Sorry. When I started thinking about writing this review, I had a Dory moment. The question (such as it is) still stands, though. Do you want to learn Perl? If you do you've come to the right place...maybe. Let me explain.

Multitouch interfaces provide a great deal of benefits for integrating new interaction modes within applications. Newer hardware and drivers on Mac OS X and Microsoft® Windows® allow for a variety of gestures beyond point and click that create more efficient application navigation.

Translating equivalent arithmetic operations between bash, Perl and awk. Part of an ongoing series on porting code.