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For the first time in the USA, I am going to teach a condensed version of my Test automation using Perl course. It will take place along the other master classes on June 19-20, 2008, the two days right after YAPC::NA.

Thanks to brian d foy you can go and already register to the class.

The good thing about attending the QA Hackathon is that you learn about all sorts of important things.

Like the famous last words created by Thomas Klausner

This is just to let Technorati know this is my journal. Technorati Profile

and to let my journal know that after 90 days of inactivity and 4 days of fighting Technorati managed to update itself from my blog

So I posted this article What can bring the excitement back to Perl on digg.com.

But I am not that convinced that Blogging about Perl outside the community can have any benefit to Perl or the community.

I wish I could make small monthly donations to TPF. I don't know about others but I'd rather pay 20 USD/month than 200 USD/year even thought the former will cost me more. I am also quite sure I'd forget to pay another 200 USD next year.

Am I so much alone with this that its not worth for TPF to improve their payment system to include recurring payments? PayPal already supports this and one of the options in the donation form of TPF is Paypal.

So why is that TPF does not support this?

It seems the communication between the perl porters and CPAN module authors on one side and the distributors of these packages on the other is, well, lacking.
To slightly improve the situation I talked a bit with the Perl packagers of Debian and Fedora that resulted in a wish list from their part. I have posted it on the Perl 5 wiki under CPAN packaging

I also started to create a list of the other perl and CPAN distributors so it will be easier to ask them as well.

I need your help to create a comprehensive list of these, so if you know who is responsible for the native perl and/or CPAN packages in your favorite operating system, please post it under Distributions

I am glad to announce that during the 3 days preceding the QA Hackathon/Workshop I am going to teach my QA Automation using Perl course in Oslo, Norway.

The course will take place in the offices of Linpro. This is a hands-on course. Computer lab is provided by Linpro.

Part of the income will go back to the Oslo Perl Mongers to help finance the Workshop.

For more information please contact me directly at gabor@pti.co.il .

I am sure it's just me but I find the website of TPF difficult to use.

This time I was trying to locate the perl5 wiki.

There is no link on the main page. So I typed "wiki" in the search box.

The second hit was July 9th, 2007 - A new wiki for Perl 5 but clicking on that link gives me the same content as the Press Release Archive

Is there anyone in TPF who can fix this?

BTW in the end I used Google and found the perl5 wiki.

In preparation to my talk on the Israeli Perl Workshop next week I have written 4 micro articles about some of the new features in Perl 5.10

• What's new in Perl 5.10? say, //, state
• Smart Matching in Perl 5.10
• Switching in Perl 5.10
• Regular Expressions in Perl 5.10