Recollections of YAPC::NA 201120110728220223
Recollections of YAPC::NA 2011
July 28, 2011activeperl, conference, cpandoc, perl
I was at YAPC::NA in late June. I should have written a summary about it a long time ago, but I wanted to include a link to the video of my Stackato L...
Highlights of Perl 5.1420110517213645
Highlights of Perl 5.14
May 17, 2011activeperl, perl, perl 5.14, ppm, regular expressions, release
We’ve just released ActivePerl 5.14.0! The exhaustive list of new features and improvements can be found in the perldelta document, but hereR...
PPM Index: A new way to browse Perl packages20110209144356
PPM Index: A new way to browse Perl packages
Perl Package Manager (PPM) installs pre-built Perl modules into ActivePerl. The ActiveState PPM repositories currently contain 13,000 to 16,000 module...
How to install CPAN modules into ActivePerl20101022132142
How to install CPAN modules into ActivePerl
October 22, 2010activeperl, cpan, DBD-mysql, perl package manager, ppm
For information on how to install CPAN moduels on newer versions of ActivePerl, read the blog Installing CPAN modules on ActivePerl 5.18 or Later. Act...
What’s New in ActivePerl – Rollout of Features from Perl 5.1220100413213946
What’s New in ActivePerl – Rollout of Features from Perl 5.12
April 13, 2010activeperl 5.12, perl 5.12, perl 5.12 release, perl programming
Yesterday, we released our blog post Perl 5 is Alive, tracing the history of Perl 5 development and commenting on the continued commitment from the Pe...
Perl 5 is Alive20100413070000
Perl 5 is Alive
April 13, 2010perl, perl 5, perl foundation, perl programming
Perl 5 core development was in a downward spiral for a couple of years. Releases happened less and less frequently, the number of contributors dropped...