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by Len Jaffe (LENJAFFE)

Len Jaffe maintains and Advent calendar collecting the links to other advent calendars.

by Moritz Lenz (MORITZ)

The first episode of the Perl 6 Advent calendar tells us that in 2014 MoarVM became the de facto standard backend of Rakudo and points us at a few more items in the expanding Perl 6 world.

by Steven Haryanto (SHARYANTO)

This is the first episode in perlancar's 2014 Advent Calendar introducing to a selection of 24 modules he wrote in 2014.

This is sort of 'the' Perl Advent calendar. This article is about temporary directories.

After skipping a year, the Dancer developers have started publish the Advent calendar for 2014. Let's see if they bring in enough contributors.

Finally, if you are really serious, you could also follow the Advent Calendar of the Seoul Perl Mongers. In Korean.

Passing values the the process method of Template::toolkit

Passing parameters to the template() function. Conditionals in Template::Toolkit.

by Sinan Unur (NANIS)

Sinan Unur keeps bumping into test failures while using perl 5.20.1 compiled with Visual Studio 2013 CE. I wonder if he is also sending bug-reports or even patches to fix these issues, or is he trying to get people understand the problems and fix them by themselves? Have you sent any patches (or pull requests) recently?

by Sinan Unur (NANIS)

This time the directory separators were returned incorrectly on Windows.

by Olaf Alders (OALDERS)

The idea behind this project is to encourage you to contribute to an open source project every day. Even if each contribution is small, this can get you in the practice of contributing.

by Nikos Vaggalis

Nikos Vaggalis looked at Mojolicious' history: why Sebastian left Catalyst for Mojolicious, present: what does the framework actually do, the project's future: Sebastian's long-term plans.

by Masahiro Nagano (KAZEBURO)

Slides introducing Gazelle a web server for PSGI based we applications. In some cases as much as 3 times faster than Starman(!)

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

If the 24 pull requests in December challenge seems like to dense for you, this one can work. Neil promises to send you a CPAN module every month and you are expected to send a pull-request fixing some issue in that module. One every month in 2015.

Best Practical has release a new bugfix version of Request Tracker.

by Steven Haryanto (SHARYANTO)

An overview of what you need to do if you'd like to get your program to provide tab completition in various Unix/Linux shells.

by Carl Mäsak

Embedding SQL in Perl 6 which is embedded in HTML which is embedded in Perl 6... It's just turtles all the way down. And interesting, or maybe horrific example of how slangs (dialects ?) can be embedded into each other with Perl 6.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

It might be obvious to many long-time Perl developer that 'length @array' does not return the number of elements in an array, but what doses it do? And how to get the length of an array?

In many applications either load time or memory usage is important. This articles shows the technique with 3 modules used for Object Oriented programming in Perl.