Perl Testing Contest: Round 3

It is time for the third give-away of Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook. You might remember that Perlcast did an interview with Ian Langworth and chromatic, the authors of Perl Testing, a month or so ago.

Through Friday of this week, we will be holding a daily contest for a copy of Perl Testing. Each contest will take the form of a question. Answers should be emailed to perlcast at gmail dot com. Entries will be accepted for 24 hours following each contest posting. Everyone with a correct answer will be entered into a drawing to be held soon after each days submission deadline.

Here is todays question:

Name three other languages that have ports of Perl's testing tools.

Good luck and thanks for listening.

Perl Testing Contest: Round 2

Ding. Ding. Ding. Time for the second give-away of Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook. You might remember that Perlcast did an interview with Ian Langworth and chromatic, the authors of Perl Testing, a month or so ago.

Through Friday of this week, we will be holding a daily contest for a copy of Perl Testing. Each contest will take the form of a question. Answers should be emailed to perlcast at gmail dot com. Entries will be accepted for 24 hours following each contest posting. Everyone with a correct answer will be entered into a drawing to be held soon after each days submission deadline.

Here is todays question:

What is the full name of the protocol that Perl's testing tools implement?

Good luck and thanks for listening.

Perl Testing Contest: Round 1

This week O'Reilly has provided five copies of Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook for Perlcast to give away. You might remember that Perlcast did an interview with Ian Langworth and chromatic, the authors of Perl Testing, a month or so ago.

Monday through Friday of this week, we will be holding a daily contest for a copy of Perl Testing. Each contest will take the form of a question. Answers should be emailed to perlcast at gmail dot com. Entries will be accepted for 24 hours following each contest posting. Everyone with a correct answer will be entered into a drawing to be held soon after each days submission deadline.

Today's question comes straight from the sample chapter available online at O'Reilly. Here goes:

"Perl's documentation suggests using h2xs to create new modules. What module, that Ian and chromatic mention, is just a modern alternative for the h2xs method?"

Good luck and thanks for listening.

Perl News 2005-08-28

A new Perl News Summary is finally out. Use Perl was active this week, so there was a lot to cover. This weeks news covers items as varied as Perl testing and PHP embedded within Perl.

Be sure to check back in at Perlcast.com throughout the week, as we are having five days of book give-aways. Details will emerge each morning this week.

Links for the news item mentioned in this summary can be found below. Thanks again for listening to to Perlcast, your Perl podcast.

• Brainbench Perl 5.8 Exam Beta Available


• Search Source Code from Books


• Perl and PHP Mashup


• The Perl Review 2.0 Hits Presses


• Parrot 0.2.3 "Serenity" Released!


• Perl Needs Better Tools


• Parsing iCal Data


• Using OpenPGP Encryption Within Perl


• Important Notice for Perl.com Readers About O'Reilly RSS and Atom Feeds

Interview with Chris Brooks

Recently, I got to speak with Chris Brooks about one of his latest projects, Talkr. In short, Talkr takes a textual blog and turns it into a podcast. Though the text-to-speech might not be done in Perl, there is a lot of Perl around in the Talkr system.

In the interview, you'll hear about what Talkr is and how it works, as well as, some commentary on podcasting and entrepreneurship. Take note of the introduction of the interview. It is a small sample of what you'll get from Talkr.

Interview with Peter Scott

At OSCON 2005 I was lucky enough to get to sit down with Peter Scott and talk about his new book Perl Medic: Transforming Legacy Code. There is a fair amount of background noise for the first few minutes of the interview, but it quickly fades into the background.

Interviewed by The Perl Review

Recently, brian d foy over at The Perl Review interviewed me about Perlcast. If you are interested, you can check out the full interview text.

As a separate plug, be sure to check out The Perl Review. The fall issue should be out soon. I was fortunate enough to get to see a preview copy and it is definitely worth the subscription. Hopefully, I can get brian on soon for a little preview.

Perl News 2005-08-16

The Perlcast Perl News Summary for this week has finally been released. News was light this week, with only four articles. Still, keep checking back during the week for two interview releases and another contest. The interviews will be with Peter Scott, the author of Perl Medic, and Scott Brooks, the creator of Talkr.

• YAPC::AU/OSDC 2005 Call for Papers


• Automated GUI Testing


• Lloyd's underwriters to cover legal risks arising from open-source use


• 2005 White Camel Awards

Perl News Summary 2005-08-07

It has been a while, but the Perlcast Perl News Summary is out again. There has been a lot going on as of late, so there was a lot of news to cover. Links to all of the articles mentioned in this summary can be found below.

• Using Perl to Manage Plist Files


• Using Perl to Manage Plist Files, Part 2


• Building a 3D Engine in Perl, Part 4


• Porting Test::Builder to Perl 6


• YAPC::AU/OSDC 2005 Call for Papers


• PHP, Perl and Python on the wane?


• OSCON by Geoff Broadwell


• Learning Perl, Fourth Edition: The Llama is Back--Revamped for Today's Nascent Perl Programmers


• Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook-- Using Perl's Automated Testing Tools to Streamline Your Work


• Learning Perl Reviewed on Slashdot


• Catalyst Movies

Interview with Damian Conway

Yesterday I had the opportunity to sit down with Damian Conway and record an interview about his involvement with Perl and about his new book Perl Best Practices.