If you talk to Jarkko about the CPAN, he'll likely tell you that it's primarily a distribution service. It's a series of regularly updated mirrors containing some metadata and an archive of redistributable code. Many proposals for enhancements and replacements and reinventions in other languages have come and gone. Most of them have tried to add complexity to this simple base.

First, like all non-standard Perl modules, you will need to install Yahoo::Search perl module from CPAN, go to cpan> console and install Yahoo::Search perl module

"We have a new addition to our testing builds page. Starting today, we are regularly posting the source for any and all of our dedicated linux testers...Here is a link to the build docs for any extra info you might need."

The other day the beta 2 disks were released to the testers team. Thanks to the wonderful feedback by the testers for beta 1, we were able to get a lot of things fixed. Fabio is back from his vacation and so it took him a bit to get through all the emails. There is still a few known issues and will hopefully get addressed in 5.0 RC1.

As mentioned on Xubuntu.org, the Xubuntu development team is in a great need for testers of the latest version of Xubuntu, 7.10 (the Gutsy Gibbon). Being the good Xubuntu citizen that I am, I intend to spread this message you any potential testers (you) so the Xubuntu team is not flooded with bug reports after the final version is released.

"Besides being the owner and president of Best Practical, the people who bring you RT, Hiveminder, Jifty, and svk, Jesse Vincent is the current project manager for the Perl 6 effort. He took over those duties from Allison Randal in 2005. He's also a co-author of RT Essentials and the author of many CPAN modules. The Perl Review intereviewed him about the current state of Perl 6."

Last weekend, the Birmingham Perl Mongers group hosted and was main financial sponsor of the 2009 QA Hackathon, which was held at the Birmingham City Inn. Key developers in the Perl Quality Assurance world flew in from as far afield as Sydney, Portland, OR and Birmingham itself to spend 3 days hacking on all aspects of the Perl and CPAN toolchain.

Improvements in Perl 5.14 include full Unicode support, improved IPv6 support, easier CPAN client configuration, a new non-destructive substitution option, flags to switch regular expressions between ASCII and Unicode, a new package declaration syntax and optimisations to use less memory and CPU than previous releases.

Flickr isn't just for photo sharing and social networking; it's a legitimate business tool. Learn how Perl programmers can use the CPAN Chart modules to create charts and graphs, and the Flickr::Upload module to upload the charts to Flickr.