Links

The links listed below are those that we feel may be of interest or use to anyone using or learning Perl. You can suggest a link, or notify us of any failing links, by sending an email to links@birmingham.pm.org with details.

Links - Index

The links listed are those we feel may be of interest or use anyone using or learning Perl. If you wish to add a link to the list, please email us with details.

Links - Recommended Viewing

The following links are probably already known to you before you found us, but in case you haven't come across these sites, they are all worth a look.

The Perl Community - News, Conversation & User Groups

use Perl; use Perl; - A collection of useful stories and journals by notable Perl hackers.
Perl Monks Perl Monks - Questions, Discussions, Tutorials, Obfuscation, among many other things. A bit over powering for a beginner, but stick with it there is some useful stuff in there.
The Perl Foundation The Perl Foundation - Grassroots co-ordindation of Perl things.
The Perl Directory The Perl Directory - Lots of links to all things Perl.
Perl Mongers User Groups Perl Mongers User Groups - Find other groups in and around you area, especially if you thought we were Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
London Perl Mongers London Perl Mongers - Our friends in the big smoke.

Perl Magazines

The Perl Review Perl Review - A natural successor to The Perl Journal.
The Perl Journal The Perl Journal - A rejuvenated online magazine.

Perl Conferences

YAPC Europe YAPC::Europe 2009, Lisbon, Portugal.
YAPC America North YAPC::NA 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
2009 O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2009 O'Reilly Open Source Convention

Book Publishers

O'Reilly O'Reilly.
Pearson Education Pearson Education
Sams Publishing Sams Publishing
Manning Publications Co. Manning Publications Co.
No Starch No Starch
Apress Apress
Peachpit Press Peachpit Press
Osborne McGraw Hill Osborne McGraw Hill

Recommended Code Sites

CPAN CPAN - The home of the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network.
nms Perl scripts at Sourceforge NMS - There is a long history of people using bad scripts from a certain repository of scripts. This sites aims to put that right and provide a site where scripts can be obtained in the knowledge they contain good perl code.
Download Perl Download Perl - Whichever machine/OS you're running, this page contains all the variations of Perl that you could ever require.

The Linux Community

South Birmingham LUG Wolverhampton LUG Malvern LUG Coventry LUG Redditch & Bromsgrove LUG
South Birmingham LUG Wolverhampton LUG Malvern LUG Coventry LUG Redditch & Bromsgrove LUG
Gloucester LUG Nottingham LUG Northants LUG Leicester LUG Worcestershire LUG
Gloucester LUG Nottingham LUG Northants LUG Leicester LUG Worcestershire LUG

Interesting Links

UKLUG Agency Rating site UKLUG Agency Rating site
UKLUG Sharp Practices UKLUG Sharp Practices

Geek Stuff

The Linux Emporium The Linux Emporium

Our Sites

Birmingham.pm Birmingham Perl Mongers. Please use this image to link back to us.
Open Guides to Birminghamm Open Guides to Birmingham.

The Credits - Software used in Development & Testing

EditPlus EditPlus - HTML editing
VI VI - HTML editing
Top Style Top Style - CSS editing
The GIMP The GIMP - graphics
Firefox Firefox - web browser

The Credits - LAMP Technology used in Production

Linux The Linux kernel.
Debian The Debian distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system.
Apache The Apache web server.
MySQL The MySQL database.
Perl The Perl programming language.

Other Sites

BBC News BBC News
Slashdot Slashdot
The Onion The Onion
Think Geek Think Geek
Google Google
Perl.com Perl.com
Steal These Buttons Buttons by Steal These Buttons