Perl Mongers Perl Magazine

howardjp writes: "The Perl Mongers have announced that they are starting a new magazine called The Perl Review (not to be confused with the literary journal Pearl). Its first issue was published on 1 February in PDF-only format, but the article 'Extreme Publishing' describes the process by which they plan to expand. With The Perl Journal's future still somewhat in doubt, this is welcome news."

Comments

Perl Journal's future isn't in doubt.

[strredwolf]

It was bought by CMP, the same folks behind Sysadmin, so things are very much stable. http://www.tpj.com

Why go back in time?

[Ars-Fartsica]

Its funny how these groups attempt to make a go of old-school once-a-month publishing format when sites like O'Reilly Network, IBM DeveloperWorks, and MSDN have demonstrated that the publish-while-you-go method, online only, is far more useful.

I suspect that over time this effort will die and Perl.com will become the de facto route for publishing articles that perl users need to read.

but have you read it?

[Preposterous Coward]

It's not just the folks behind Sysadmin, it's been folded into Sysadmin. And I was disappointed with the resulting magazine, at least what I've seen of it so far. It just didn't seem to have the depth and quality of the old TPJ. In fact, my sub is now up for renewal, and I decided not to spend the money for another year -- even though I'm not at all a penny-pincher and subscribe to *lots* of magazines and for-fee services. I just didn't see it providing any real value in its current form.