by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

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

by Dana Jacobsen (DANAJ)

Dana reviewed CPAN modules you can use for random number generation, in place of the rand built-in.

by Max Maischein (CORION)

Max introduces his new module, DBIx::PivotQuery, which lets you build pivot tables, similar to those you can use in Excel.

by Dan Book (DBOOK)

Dand introduces his Autoload::AUTOCAN module, which makes it easier to do Autoload right.

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

Sawyer's weekly update from the P5P mailing list.

by Ryan Voots (SIMCOP)

Up to now, the @INC variable (used to search for modules when your program uses them), has had '.' (the current directory) in it. But this is a security risk, so in Perl 5.26 @INC will no longer contain '.'. Ryan goes through what that might mean for your CPAN distributions, and has assembled a list of distributions that appear to break with this change. If you're an author, check for your distribution(s) please!

by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN)

Jonathan has made significant improvements to how MoarVM handles memory allocation in multithreaded applications.

by Zoffix Znet (ZOFFIX)

An update on Zoffix's work on Perl 6 IO.

by Carl Mäsak

Carl ruminates on Perl 6's EVAL built-in, which is a bit different from Perl 5's eval.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

Before the Toolchain Summit starts, the attendees are asked to add their work list to the wiki. Everyone is invited to have a look at the project list, and let us know if there are additional things you want to suggest for inclusion (bug fixes, new features, etc).

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

The third article in a series about the distribution metadata that you'll find in the META.json file. This article was supported by MaxMind, a gold sponsor for the summit.

by Dawn S. Wallis

The organisers of The Perl Conference (YAPC::NA as was) have started sharing parts of the schedule, and encourage interested parties to sign up now!

by E. Choroba (CHOROBA)

E Choroba got Jemplate in the pull request challenge, and in fixing a bug in that, he ended up fixing the same bug in the Template Toolkit (Jemplate is an implementation of the Template Toolkit in Javascript).

by Makoto Nozaki

Tony Cook has asked for an extension to his Perl 5 maintenance grant: $20k for another 400 hours of work.

by Mark A Jensen (MAJENSEN)

In 2015 a grant was awarded to switch blogs.perl.org to a new blog engine. The grant has stalled, and so the grants committee has decided to cancel the grant. They would still welcome someone replacing the current engine behind blogs.perl.org.

by Aristotle Pagaltzis (ARISTOTLE)

Aristotle quotes Alan Kay, suggesting that we should consider focussing on funding people who do good things for Perl, rather than worrying so much on specific projects.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

The first episode of the new podcast by Gabor: How do other companies create high-quality sotware?

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