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

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; - A collection of useful stories and journals by notable Perl hackers.
	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 - Grassroots co-ordindation of Perl things.
	The Perl Directory - Lots of links to all things Perl.
	Perl Mongers User Groups - Find other groups in and around you area, especially if you thought we were Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
	London Perl Mongers - Our friends in the big smoke.

Perl Magazines

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

Perl Conferences

	YAPC::Europe - The 2007 Conference is being hosted by Vienna.pm.
	YAPC::America::North - The 2007 hosts will be Houston.pm.
	2007 O'Reilly Open Source Convention

Book Publishers

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

Recommended Code Sites

	CPAN - The home of the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network.
	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 - 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 Gloucester LUG Nottingham LUG Northants LUG Leicester LUG Worcestershire LUG

Interesting Links

	UKLUG Agency Rating site
	UKLUG Sharp Practices

Geek Stuff

The Linux Emporium

Our Sites

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

The Credits - Software used in Development & Testing

	EditPlus - HTML editing
	VI - HTML editing
	Top Style - CSS editing
	The GIMP - graphics
	Firefox - web browser
	HTML Validator - Firefox extension
	Selenium - web testing

The Credits - LAMP Technology used in Production

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

Other Sites

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

About Birmingham.pm

We are one of the UK's largest Perl user groups, representing Birmingham UK to the international Perl community since 2000. We hold monthly social and technical presentations, and several of our members are now regular attendees and speakers at the YAPC::Europe Perl Conferences.

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14 January 2009
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25 February 2009
The Victoria
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Associate Links

Birmingham OpenGuides
The Perl Foundation
Perl Mongers
Perl Jobs
CPAN

UK Perl Mongers

Aberdeen Perl Mongers
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Belfast Perl Mongers
Birmingham Perl Mongers
Cambridge Perl Mongers
Cumbria Perl Mongers
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North of England Perl Mongers
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