by Ask Bjørn Hansen (ASK)

The Perl NOC are proposing to switch cpan.org to https-only later in September. Please let them know if you think this might cause any problems, for example for any CPAN clients or other tools.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

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

by Ben Bullock (BKB)

Ben introduces WWW::CheckGzip, a module that will check whether a web page has the correct gzip compression.

by Anirvan Chatterjee (ANIRVAN)

Anirvan tried what he thinks is invalid markdown with four different markdown modules, and as a result suggests that Text::Markdown::Discount may be a good choice. One of the problems with markdown is that there are a lot of things not covered by the official spec (which is what prompted Common Mark, amongst other things).

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

Pastel de Nata is a Portuguese egg tart pastry. If you haven't tried one, you should try and track some down, because done well, they're delicious. I'm pretty sure 8 out of 10 P5P participants would agree with me.

by Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi (VTI)

Dave scratched his blogging itch, and here VTI tells us how he scratched his packaging itch, by developing stew.

by Tim Retout (DIOCLES)

At CV Library they hit a problem when running Perl as process id 1 inside Docker containers. Tim takes us through the problem, and their solution.

by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS)

For many developers, there comes a time when you decide to write your own blog engine. That time has come for Dave, and his blog engine is called Aphra.

by Ben Bullock (BKB)

Ben works through matching C-style comments with regular expressions.

There are videos for some of the talks at the recent Swiss Perl Workshop, now available for your viewing pleasure.

by Elizabeth Mattijsen (ELIZABETH)

Liz's weekly roundup of Rakudo news, the headline for which is Jonathan's Cro framework for building web services.

by Zoffix Znet (ZOFFIX)

On the first Saturday of every month, the Rakudo gang plan to have a bug squashathon. The first one was on the Saturday just gone, but you've got plenty of notice for the next one.

by Lance Wicks (LANCEW)

Lance took part in last weekend's bug squashathon, which he was prompted to join in on, as he's started working on a web app using Bailador (the Dancer "port" for Rakudo).

by Zoffix Znet (ZOFFIX)

Zoffix shares some of his thoughts about what makes some communities more welcoming, and easier to join, than others.

by Sylvain Colinet (SCOLINET)

Sylvain explains how to use the native trait when using NativeCall to call a C function from Rakudo.

by Steve Mynott

A detailed report on the Swiss Perl Workshop.

by Mark A Jensen (MAJENSEN)

An update on Samantha's grant to work on Unicode support in Rakudo.

by Will Coleda (COKE)

Tina's grant proposal for YAML::PP has been approved.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Gabor is starting another weekly newsletter: this one is going to provide a curated selection of blog posts published by major tech companies. You can sign up at developer-weekly.com.

G’day, Perl Mongers of Australia! Do you have a strong background in Perl, but a desire to learn and apply other languages? This client is looking for a polyglot developer, with a focus on Perl but potential to also use (and be cross-trained in) Scala, Ruby, Python and JavaScript. It is a small, flexible team and there may be the opportunity to undertake some DevOps work too if interested.

The Victorian poet Matthew Arnold called Oxford ‘the city of dreaming spires’, and even the most unromantic among us would surely agree there is something magical about Oxford on a misty autumnal morning.

Friendly and quiet office in London (W1) looking for a Perl (or similar) developer with at least two years experience. You’re expected to have fullstack experience/abilities, from improvements on the client’s HTML front-end to backend services. It’s a small company, so there’s some fluidility expected between roles - a good place to expand on your jack-of-all-software-trades skillset.