by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

The announcement for this year's QA Hackathon, which is being held in Rugby (in the UK), from Thursday 21st April through Sunday 24th April.

by Dan Wright (DWRIGHT)

The YAPC::NA::2016 call for speakers is now open! There must be something you could talk about: Perl 5, Perl 6, the transition between the two (either way!), some other programming language, or some other topic you think may be of interest to programmers.

by Dan Wright (DWRIGHT)

YAPC::NA are looking for people to give master classes before and after this year's YAPC::NA.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

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

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

David's selection of new modules released to CPAN in January. He's decided not to continue with his "module of the month", considering it an experiment that has run its course. One worth looking at is Importer.

by Steven Haryanto (SHARYANTO)

Perlancar describes the lcpan tool, which you can use to manage your own CPAN mirror. There's going to be a series of daily tips on lcpan usage: here's the first.

by Philippe Bruhat (BOOK)

Philippe takes us through all the different versions of Git that he's tested Git::Repository against, and shares the scripts he's written to help with that.

by Timm Murray (TMURRAY)

A video of Timm's talk to Madison Perl Mongers about programming quadcopters in Perl.

by Alex Muntada (ALEXM)

Alex wondered what's the easiest way to serve up files using a Perl 5 module? Several people have chipped in so far in the comments, but I'm sure more of you won't be able to resist.

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

As Chester discovers his son Danny has been sleeping with Annie and everyone awaits the kidnappers' demands for Jessica's release, the governor urges Burt to disassociate himself from his family.

by Andy Grundman (AGRUNDMA)

Andy describes a bug found in the way Perl builds DLL files on Windows when compiling with GCC, and how it was fixed.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Gabor shows how you can use Perl::Tidy to ensure your code always followings your layout preferences, even if some of it was written by someone else.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

When refactoring tests for a module, Gabor noticed functions for reading and writing files. He shows how you can use Path::Tiny for this, and also mentions File::Slurper, which is my go-to module for those tasks these days.

by Thomas Fahle (TOMFAHLE)

I can't really tell you much beyond the title, because it's written in German.

by Ricardo Signes (RJBS)

When you look at a module or dist on MetaCPAN or search.cpan.org, they both show the last person who released it. Rik points out that this isn't always the most appropriate person to show, and suggests that the owner of the distribution should be displayed. He also opened a github issue for MetaCPAN, specifically about highlighting when a module has ADOPTME, HANDOFF, or NEEDHELP.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

This was my response to Rik's post. I think that rather than show just one person, we should show everyone who's done a release, in the order of whose released most recently.

by Helmut Wollmersdorfer (WOLLMERS)

This was Helmut's response to Rik's post. He thinks that everyone with upload permissions should be displayed, which is slightly different from my proposal.

by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN)

Jonathan outlines his Perl 6 will be versioned, including the language definition, the Rakudo compiler, and MoarVM.

by Jeff Goff (JGOFF)

Jeff continues his series on Perl 6 regular expressions and grammars, which has so far been about the former.

by Enkidu

Enkidu bemoans the fact that lots of Perl 6 modules are being created with top-level names, such as Chess, and not being put in appropriate namespaces, such as Games::Chess.

A MacOSX installer for the latest Perl 6 Rakudo star release is now available.

by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN)

Yary had been thinking about writing a reversible grammar, so you could feed it a parse tree and it would generate the original text (that had produced the parse tree). Raiph pointed out in the comments that Jonathan Worthington has a proof of concept already.

by Makoto Nozaki

Will Braswell has applied for a second grant: $1600 to continue work on the Learning RPerl user tutorial. Add your comments if you agree or disagree with this proposal being funded.

by Andrew Solomon (ILLY)

Andrew shares his tips for minimising churn while growing a development team.

Mike Perham urges Ruby developers to look to their dependencies, and trim them down to only those really needed. As he notes, this is an issue for all programming languages.

Paul Seal's tips on being a better programmer. What would you add to his list?

Michael Glukhovsky, co-founder of RethinkDB, shares his tips for how to make your project successful on GitHub. In his words, "it's all about engaging the community".