Perl Beginners' Site - News
03-August-2009: More updates to Perl-Begin.org
I thought the Perl Beginners' Site was perfect after the last update, but boy I was wrong. A quick review and critique of the site by a certain prominent Perl developer proved me wrong, and afterwards I had more stuff that I found lacking. So here's what has changed.
We're now mirroring the public domain "Perl for Newbies" tutorial as well as the GFDLed book "Impatient Perl" by Greg London. Their presence on the site was done in order to preserve Perl-Begin's common look and feel, and to make sure people would be able to access them without having to go to a different site, which may be blocked by over-zealous web-filters. We hope to mirror other freely distributable material that may prove useful to beginners on Perl-Begin in the future.
The "call-for-action" notice at the beginning was changed to "Learn Perl Now!" and now appears on all the pages.
We also fixed several look and style glitches.
There are also several corrections to text and links.
Stack Overflow was added to the web-forums page.
There are now mentionings of two new topical books - "Perl & LWP" and "Programming the Perl DBI".
Finally, the "About this site" page was updated and made more modern.
We hope you enjoy the new site. If you like it, please recommend it to your friends - if you don't - let us know and we'll see what we can do.
27-July-2009: Updates to Perl-Begin.org
After the last news item, a lot of work was invested into Perl-Begin.org, the Perl Beginners' Site, making it even better than it used to be. Here's a summary of the changes:
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A testimonials page was added, with some honest-to-God testimonial quotes which are now featured in the Testimonials side-bar.
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There's a new IDEs and tools page, featuring some Integrated Development Environments.
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There's a new page sporting links to collections of blogs.
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Several new topical pages were added:
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A ShareThis button was added to the bottom of every page for easy bookmarking and sharing.
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Many writing errors (spelling, grammar, syntax, phrasing, etc.) have been corrected by Alan Haggai Alavi. He seems to have a good eye for catching such problems, and I am indebted to him.
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Corrected several broken links including those to Ovid's CGI course.
We hope you enjoy the new Perl Beginners' Site and please recommend it to your friends. All content on Perl-Begin is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence which allows almost unlimited re-use.
14-May-2009: Many Updates and Corrections
Recently, the Perl-Begin site has seen many updates and corrections. Among them are:
- In the Perl on Windows page, we now recommend the open-source and community-headed Strawberry Perl instead of the proprietary and quirky ActivePerl.
- The contributors list is now in the global navigation menu. This makes sure it will be prominently featured on all pages of the site, and won't be left out-of-date.
- The systems administration page now contains links to many useful modules.
- Many new links have been added, both internal and external, and some broken links have been fixed.
- The licensing blurb at the bottom was clarified to be CC-by 2.0, or at your option a later version.
Aside from all that, we'd like to note that our attention has been directed to an effort on the Perl 5 Wiki to list all Perl-related mailing lists. This effort needs help, and there are instructions for that, at the link.
07-July-2006: The wiki is now part of perl.net.au
The contents of our wiki were integrated into the perl.net.au MediaWiki as its "New to Perl?" section. This was done to consolidate the Perl wiki'ing efforts, because there's much more action on perl.net.au than there was on our wiki, and for ease of maintenace. Our wiki will be removed soon.
Also of note is a new section of the site on Perl-related wikis.
04-November-2005: Perlmeme.org
There's a new site for Perl beginners called Perlmeme.org. It collects tutorials, howto documents, and frequently asked questions (FAQ) lists. I was referred to its developers by a mutual friend, and since then became heavily involved in its development. (E.g.: some of the material from my Perl for Perl Newbies series, was integrated there. )
Perlmeme.org tries to be as up-to-date as possible and is certainly worth checking out. On a different note, I'd like to mention that I went over the material in the Perl for Perl Newbies series and heavily updated and corrected it. It should be much better now.
-- Shlomi Fish.
06-June-2005: Wiki Restored
The Wiki was heavily spammed and so was taken off. Now, a new wiki was set up with a better implementation - MediaWiki, and now we monitor the RSS feed and use other measurements to prevent Spam.
All the content of the old wiki was restored.
29-February-2004: New Wiki
We now have a new Wiki with a better implementation. The previous wiki was dumped because it was a JavaScript hell and was quite lame in its conventions. The newer wiki implementation (PmWiki to be exact) is much better in this and other regards.
All the content from the old wiki was transferred to the new one. We hope you'd like it better.