by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

Sawyer summarizes what happened on the p5p front this week. And oh boy is this bunch a busy one.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

YAML seems to be more forgiving than YAML::XS, YAML::Syck, or YAML::Tiny.

by Yanick Champoux (YANICK)

A new plugin infrastructure is being hammered for Dancer. Before it goes live, a call is made to all plugin writers to have a look at it and, perhaps, pre-emptively convert a plugin or two to make sure that nothing has been overlooked.

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

When writing CLI tools, the argument munging and usage/help outputs are the boring, trudging things that are a terrible bore, but needs to be done. But, fortunately for us, Getopt::Long is there to remove most of that tedium.

by Alexey Melezhik (MELEZHIK)

A new high-level black box testing framework is introduced here. The idea seems to compare the output of a given "story" against what is expected, and report if there's any discrepency between the two.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

A 'standard' example for using a stack.

by Jason A. Crome (CROMEDOME)

Jason is the latest addition to the Core Dancer Crew, and he's already getting to work.

by Olaf Alders (OALDERS)

There is nothing more treacherous than a false assumption regarding what a library considers to be success, or "all is good", or "a raging bonfire of blistering victory".

by Buddy Burden (BAREFOOT)

Buddy finishes his review of the date-related modules on CPAN, and begins to lay the architecture fundations of his own temporal scratchpost.

The Dancer micro-web framework had its second conference last week, this time in grand old Vienna. Gert summarizes how the first day went.

Report on the second day of the Dancer conference.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

All the Perl Maven articles related to Perl Dancer, now available bundled in one e-book in MOBI format for Kindle.

by Timo Paulssen

Nothing massive was brewed this week, but a few nice juicy bugfixes happened.

by Yanick Champoux (YANICK)

Exercism.io is a site where you can practice your hand at different languages, and gt the resulting code reviewed by peers. And while Perl 6 is not advertised as one of their active languages, it does have a dozen or so exercises available, if you know where to look.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

Great modules released last week;
MetaCPAN weekly report;
StackOverflow Perl report.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

11 beginner level programming exercises with solutions in Perl.