For the more playfull and advanced stuff, maybe the fun-with-perl mailinglist is the place to be.

The Perl Journal seems to be focused more on Perl as an IT solution and as a place to introduce people to neat easy-to-use Perl technologies.

I am a long time subscriber of The Perl Journal and I was allways satisfied with its mixture of usefull articles, and never thought that TPJ was focused on IT solutions. Some articles like Sean M. Burke's "Braille" article I missed the first time because I wasn't very interessted in this topic, but when I actually read this article I found a nice introduction to look-behind and other new RegEx features. Don't look only at the title of the articles; even if the look like IT-Solutions, you may learn a lot even if you are not interessted in this specific solution.

That said, I have to admit that I am not sure wether to renew my subscription. Looking at the TOC of issue 21, Fall 2001 of The Perl Journal , TPJ seems to be pretty thined out, while the subscription rate went too much up (especially for overseas subscriber), because you have to subscribe to Sys Admin as well -- a magazine I am not interessted in. If The Perl Journal was bundeld together with Dr.Dobb's which seems to be published by the same group I probably would renew my subscription with further thinking, but Sys Admin will be too expensive without much merit for me.

Well The Perl Journal is in transision time, so it is too early to judge its future and I may re-subcribe if the next issues will look not that thined out and the topics covered will remain the nice mixture as before.

Hanamaki