I'm quite happy to say that Beginning Perl has now been released. You can buy it on Amazon or a number of other online bookstores, and I'm guessing a few local bookstores, too. There are also a couple of translation deals, too, but they're not finalized, so I'm unsure if I can talk about them.
If you're interested in Perl but worried about the title, the book actually takes you all the way through OO programming and even has introductory sections on Catalyst, DBIx::Class, Plack, and other tools. It's fairly comprehensive.
As some of you may know, I gave a talk at YAPC::Europe 2012 about Agile Companies. Due to some miscommunication, the video is not online (yet), but I'm trying to get that sorted.
Today I checked an email folder I don't read frequently and discovered that the survey feedback on my talk came in:
Due to some (legitimate) criticism I received for complaining about MySQL in another forum without bothering to say why, here is my list of my top MySQL complaints:
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