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by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

Would you like to win a Perl Nerd Badge with a Velociraptor on it? You only have to write an article for the Perltricks site and submit it before February 21, 2014.

by Peter Rabbitson (RIBASUSHI)

You might know that warnings can be changed to throw exceptions in a lexical scope. What you might not know is that some modules, that turn on 'use strict' - for example Moo, will also change the warnings into exceptions. I don't think the fear created in the title is warranted, but it is better to remind ourselves of this behavior. In any case, you can comment on the article to voice your frustration.

by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK)

The monthly news report of Toby Inkster on Object Oriented side of Perl, with a strong focus on Moose, Moo, and related modules.

by Yanick Champoux (YANICK)

Yanick Champoux wants to create a 'Map of CPAN' for a single CPAN distribution. Here is how he started collecting the data.

Should one use the Error and Error::Simple modules for exceptions?

by John Napiorkowski (JJNAPIORK)

John Napiorkowski describes what is in this release. As a Catalyst user it is very important that you check out this release and make sure your application works with it as well.

Introducing Demeter which is a scientific software for the processing and analysis of XAS data built using Perl, wxWidgets, Gnuplot, and other open source technologies.

by Buddy Burden (BAREFOOT)

Buddy Burden continuous exploring his relationship to Perl. This time he discusses the need for the language to change and evolve.

by Tony Cook (TONYC)

The report of Tony Cook - Approximately 30 tickets were worked on, and 10 patches were applied.

by Makoto Nozaki

Makoto Nozaki has replaced Alberto Simões as the secretary of The Perl Foundation grant committee.

by David Golden (DAGOLDEN)

David Golden checked the worst-case scenario, when you have a freshly installed perl and you need to install Dist::Zilla with more than 170 dependencies and suggests two ways to reduce the install-time. Even with those it will probably take more than 10 minutes. Just enough to do get up from your chair and do some exercises.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

Would you like to adopt a CPAN module but don't know where and how to ask? Neil Bowers explains all of that.

by Jeffrey Thalhammer (THALJEF)

CPAN Is like A Box of Chocolates. Pinto is a powerful tool for creating and managing a private chocolate box.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

BambooHR is a commercial web-based HR (Human Resources) information system. This package created by Neil Bowers is the Perl module to access their public API.

by Curtis Brandt (CURTIS)

Curtis Brandt used WWW::YouTube::Download to download videos from YouTube, but had an issue with the ones where age limit was set. He solved it.

Last week there was an article explaining what was new in the latest release of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler. This release of Rakudo Star contains the latest version of the compiler with a bunch of extra modules.

by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN)

The slides of Jonathan Worthington for his talk at FOSDEM. (thanks to Steve Mynott for the link)

by Sinan Unur (NANIS)

This is strictly for people who understand statistics, or who want to understand it! Sinan Unur explains why the statements of Ovid when using random dice rolls, were incorrect.

A relatively new web site for people who would like to learn Perl by Chris Kildegaard, a high school student in California.

by Damian Conway (DCONWAY)

Damian Conway is going to be back in Zurich giving a few training classes. Get ready!

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

'Chomp removes the trailing newline of a string.' says the common sense, but does it? What does chomp really do? And what is $/?

While in new Perl applications you might prefer to use Moo or Moose, but there are plenty of cases when classic Perl OOP is needed. For example when you need to maintain an existing application. This is the first article of a series of articles explaining the core Perl OOP.

A list of open source, Perl based products that you can use, or even help develop.

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

The hackathon will be held during February 8-9, 2014 in the Technologia Incognita hackspace, in Amsterdam.

In the following cities: Amsterdam, Hannover, Utrecht, Poznan, Prague, Kiev, Orlando (FL)