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Tim Bunce developed and released the first version of the DBI and DBD::Oracle modules in 1994. He is the founder and CTO of Data-Plan Services.

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Ryan Benedetti holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the University of Montana and teaches in the Liberal Arts Department at Salish Kootenai College (SKC) on the Flathead Indian Reservation.

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Perl News & Commentary

Four short links: 27 Mar 2009

By Nat Torkington
March 27, 2009

Design, Perl, Heresy, and Ephemera: Product Panic: 2009 -- Bruce Sterling essay on design for recession-panicked consumers. As is usual with Bruce, I can't tell whether he's wryly tongue-in-cheek or literally advocating what he says. Great panic products are like Roosevelt’s fireside chats. They’re cheery bluff. The standard virtues of fine industrial design—safety, convenience, serviceability, utility, solid construction … well,...

Unix's Magical Moment, as Foretold by Tom Christiansen

By Allen Noren
February 13, 2009

Today I received the following from Tom Christiansen, author of several of our bestselling Perl books, frequent speaker at OSCON, and Perl consultant extraordinaire. He asked that we publish this special news on his behalf. If you're at all interested...

New York Times Settles Linking Suit

By Peter Brantley
January 27, 2009

In what many of us thought was a slightly bizarre case, the New York Times Co. has settled with GateHouse Media in a suit attempting to cease the automated...

CGI is Dead; mod_perlite is Alive!

By chromatic
January 15, 2009

PHP's application deployment model is difficult to beat. Perl has lacked something similar for years -- until now. Byrne Reese and Aaron Stone address the gap between CGI and mod_perl with mod_perlite, one of the features Perl 5 needs most.

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