by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

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

by Andy Lester (PETDANCE)

Andy sings the praises of List::UtilsBy. This is similar to List::Util, but provides functions that take a block which controls how the function works.

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

This week our happy crew spent most of their time discussing 2nd generation Pokémon, and who has and hasn't got Snorlax yet.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Gabor shows how to import just the functions you're going to use, when use'ing a module.

by Sinan Unur (NANIS)

Sinan looks at some of the problems you might encounter trying to use Unicode with Perl on Windows.

Jeremy wondered whether anyone else would like an else clause on loops, which would be run if the body of the loop was never run. I've never wanted such a thing, but I did enjoy the comments, which illustrate that one person's "you don't need to ever use X", is another person's "I use that all the time".

by Timo Paulssen

The weekly collection of Perl 6 news.

by Moritz Lenz (MORITZ)

Building a visualisation showing what's taking up diskspace, in Perl 6. This is from Moritz's book, Perl 6 by Example, a work in progress.

by Mark Dominus (MJD)

Mark talks us through the problems he had with one line of code.

by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS)

Dave is fighting entropy.

by Marcus Ramberg (MRAMBERG)

Mojolicious now includes Mojo::File, a class for manipulating files. I haven't done a feature-by-feature comparison, but it's similar to Path::Tiny, if you're familiar with that.

by Claudio Ramirez (NXADM)

Videos from the Perl room at FOSDEM.

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