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by Philippe Bruhat (BOOK)

Philippe Bruhat presents a problem with use of requires when working with roles, and also presents a solution.

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

Curtis Poe describes how roles can be treated as partial classes, a concept in some languages, where a class can be split into multiple files. A bit like roles, you might be thinking.

by Chad Granum (EXODIST)

Chad Granum posted an update on changes to Test::Builder, Test::Simple, and Test::More. These changes will be part of Perl 5.22.

by John Napiorkowski (JJNAPIORK)

John Napiorkowski announces a developer release with a lot of fixes related to UTF-8 and encoding. "If you never bother to test development releases of Catalyst, this is the one time you really should".

by Jeffrey Thalhammer (THALJEF)

Jeffrey Thalhammer announced a developer release of a new version of Perl::Critic, which now uses MCE to run tests in parallel.

Added a custom 404 error page to your project.

Something about protecting from a crash.

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

Curtis Poe posted a small programming challenge, and a bunch of people gave their solutions (in the comments, gists, etc).

Nestoria describe how they process a lot of data in XML using XML::Simple.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Gabor explains regular expression quantifiers, which specify how many of a given sub-pattern you want to match.

by Sinan Unur (NANIS)

Sinan Unur muses (more than once) on the right thing to do when you hit problems trying to install someone else's software. These resonated with me, since I spent way too long trying to get GD and GD::Graph working on a machine last week. Sometimes, when you've got the damn thing working, you're out of time and energy, and just need to move on. And sometimes not.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

Miguel Prz's regular lists: Great modules released last week; MetaCPAN weekly report; StackOverflow Perl report.

by Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi (VTI)

Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi interviewed Olaf Alders, the founder of MetaCPAN. Topics covered: how he got started in Perl, what led to MetaCPAN, and his current web framework of choice.

Each month Nestoria tip their hat, and wallet, to a favourite module. November's choice was Perl::Critic.

by Philippe Bruhat (BOOK)

Philippe Bruhat might count as a professional workshop organiser. He reports on a recent hackathon held in Lyon, without actually mentioning what they were hacking on.

by Thomas Klausner (DOMM)

Thomas Klausner has released lib::projectroot, which makes it easier to load all the project-specific, non-CPAN code ("DarkPAN") in your project's scripts

by Robert Rothenberg (RRWO)

Robert Rothenberg has released a new version of Pod::Readme which has hooks for working with Dist::Zilla. This means your pod can now include sections just for inclusion in the README, for example.

by Steve Cookson

Steve Cookson emailed the wxPerl mailing list, "After six years of graft and toil we have just launched our project i-Mage at a medical conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil".

OTRS is an open-source ticketing system written in Perl (Wikipedia page). Version 4 was released recently; one of the changes was to move to the Template toolkit.

by Tony Cook (TONYC)

This kind of work is critical to keeping Perl moving forward, and stopping the bit-rot.

by Ingy döt Net (INGY)

Ingy and David describe their recent work to make "auto-stubbing" a reality. This lets you create lightweight modules in C using Inline, rather than going full-fat XS.

by Mark Fowler (MARKF)

Mark Fowler has been doing a sterling job on this advent calendar thus far, covering Test::TempDir::Tiny, Mac::Safari::JavaScript, HTTP::Tiny, Plack, Sub::Util, Test::DatabaseRow, and Time::Limit.

A selection of authors have so far covered: The State of Perl 6 in 2014, Rakudobrew, Cap your junctions, Composers, Coercers, and the Case of a Camel's Curious Corner, Act with great Responsibility, Running External Programs from Perl 6, and That's how we .roll these days.

by Steven Haryanto (SHARYANTO)

Steven Haryanto is being greedy or impressive, or both, describing one of his 2014 modules each day. So far: App::jpath, App::nauniq, DBIx::Diff::Struct, App::datecalc, App::rmhere, File::umask, and App::SetScreensaverTimeout.

by Matt S. Trout (MSTROUT)

Matt Trout is giving his thoughts on themed modules each day. So far: web frameworks, web deployment, XML, HTML, Files,

The Dancer project have their own advent calendar too. Topics so far: Another year of Dancing, Starting anew, Migrating to Dancer 2, Your website in a Carton box, Packing the Fat, Static file serving in Dancer 2, and Doing an API mashup with Dancer.