by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

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

by Yanick Champoux (YANICK)

Yanick has released some new commands for his tool for TaskWarrior.

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

The weekly round-up of P5P notes, which includes links to a lot of grant updates from Dave and Zefram.

by Flávio Glock (FGLOCK)

An update from Flávio on Perlito, an implementation of Perl 5 that runs in the JVM. You can now run Perl scripts from inside a Java application.

by Jeff Goff (JGOFF)

Jeff takes us through testing in Perl 6.

by Elizabeth Mattijsen (ELIZABETH)

The weekly roundup of Rakudo news, with links to a videos for Perl 6 talks from TPCiA.

by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN)

Jonathan describes his recent work to improve the concurrency features provided by Supply.

by Mark Keating

It was great seeing Mark at LPW, throughly enjoying being an attendee, and that shines through in this post as well.

by Lance Wicks (LANCEW)

Lance gave a tutorial on the Bailador web framework for Perl 6, and shares this thoughts on how that went, along with the rest of the day. I loved this line: "It was just so darn friendly, and the whole darn Perl community is so darn friendly".

by JJ Merelo (JMERELO)

JJ's thoughts on the day, during which he gave a talk on using Perl 6 for teaching programming to complete novices.

by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR)

Mohammad gave his first-ever Perl talk last year at LPW, and he came back to talk about Map::Tube this year.

by Alberto Simões (AMBS)

Alberto passes on an update from Chad, for his work on Test2, being done under a TPD grant.

by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR)

Mohammad has got addicted to help others, via pull requests. He gives us some statistics on his journey so far.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

A not too common, but rather annoying error.

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