• in #184 Comparing booleans in Perl
  Andrew shows two of the ways you might compare the boolean true-or-false'ness of two scalars in Perl. Hopefully most of the time readability would win out :-)
• 2013.04.24 in #92 Role up! Role up! (but keep hold of your Moose and make your meta immutable)
  Andrew Solomon shows how to add dynamic roles to your *objects* and how do you make sure you are not trying to add them to the class.
• 2013.11.22 in #122 Perl Website Survey
  Andrew Solomon is running a small, one-page survey on Perl and web. Please fill it out in the next 48 hours and if you don't forget, please mention that you read about the survey in the Perl weekly. (I think the 5th question can have this information).
• 2014.02.11 in #134 Snapshot 2014* - Perl on the Web
  The results of the survey of the Perl Web Development job market conducted by Andrew Solomon.
• 2014.06.17 in #152 Why Learn Perl? Interview 1 - Michael Rupp, Polyglot
  Andrew Solomon who is running Perl courses via Geekuni has interviews Michael Rupp, one of his students.
• 2014.06.25 in #153 Why Learn Perl? Interview 2 - Andy Beverley, Serial Entrepreneur
  Andrew Solomon keeps interviewing his students at Geekuni.
• 2014.07.02 in #154 Why Learn Perl? Interview 3 - Savio Dimatteo, Established Perl Developer
  The 3rd interview by Andrew Solomon
• 2014.07.13 in #155 Why Learn Perl? Interview 4 - Emma Howson, Graduate and Emerging Perl Dancer
  Andrew Solomon interviews Emma Howson, a young, nascent Perl developer (and author of the PerlAdventures blog which appears here from time to time).
• 2014.08.06 in #159 Perl as a career option
  Andrew Solomon has been interviewed by Linux Career covering quite a few topic from 'Modern Perl' via web development to 'how to get started with Perl'.
• 2015.01.20 in #236 Quick and Dirty: Vim highlighting and tag matching for HTML and Perl's Template Toolkit
  A quick trick for vim jockeys to be able to jump back and forth between opening and closing tags within ToolkitTemplate tags.
• 2015.02.16 in #186 Predict language popularity in 5 years
  In this survey that you can complete within 1 minute, Andrew is trying to predict which languages will be popular 5 years from now.
• 2015.05.04 in #198 How to install different versions of Perl
  Showing how to use perlbrew to 'upgrade' Perl.
• 2015.06.14 in #203 Statefulness and cookies - three ways to implement sessions
  Cookies. They are delicious. Or, at the very least, darn useful in a web framework context. Andrew shows three different ways they can be used in Dancer2.
• 2015.06.14 in #203 Perl Essentials course at YAPC::EU
  Andrew is very keen to attract Perl Beginners into the community and feel included at the conference, so he is offering a one-day training class for people new to Perl. If you know anyone who might be interested and who needs an excuse for a vacation in Granada, Spain, signing up to this course is the perfect solution!
• 2015.07.08 in #207 Does Certification Matter For Programmers?
  Andrew acknowledges that certification for programmers can split a crowd, but that some managers like to see it. Geekuni has introduced certification for its Perl and web development courses.
• 2015.08.16 in #212 The Perl Community
  Any online community is pretty much a herd of cats. But it could be argued that the Perl community is even a disparater clowder than most. Preparing his panel for YAPC::EU, Andrew muses on what constitute the community, and how to extend it even further.
• 2015.09.30 in #219 State of the Geek 2015
  Geekuni did a survey on which programming languages its users are mostly working in, and which ones they wishes they'd use more. The results are in.
• 2015.10.17 in #221 Interviews - George Karpodinis, Adzuna
  Adzuna (founded 2011) is a crowd-funded job search engine operating in 11 countries with its headquarters in London, UK. George Karpodinis is lead developer at Adzuna.
• 2015.11.10 in #225 Alexis Sukrieh, choreographer of Perl's Dancer community
  Andrew interviews Alexis Sukrieh and traces back with him the genesis of its creation, the Dancer micro-web framework.
• 2015.11.18 in #226 A gentle crash course on Perl in London
  Developers of all programming languages are invited to the London Perl Workshop on December 12. There will be a free 2 hour hands-on course with the highlights of Perl, its community and its ecosystem so that the attendees are well prepared when they encounter it in the wild.
• 2016.01.31 in #238 How To Grow a Development Team ... Hotel California Style!
  Andrew shares his tips for minimising churn while growing a development team.
• 2016.03.06 in #241 The flip-flop - chic for geeks
  Andrew shows how to use the flip-flop operator in Perl, and links to further reading from other Perl bloggers.
• 2016.04.16 in #247 Interview - Perl's Pumpking Ricardo Signes
  If you wonder what is a Pumpking, or if that is even a word, check out what Rik, the outgoing Pumpking says about it.
• 2016.11.23 in #279 FREE Perl courses in London
  Are you near London? If so, you might be interested in two free Perl courses -- one introduction and one on Dancer2 web development -- that will be given on December 3rd.
• 2017.10.28 in #327 Perl string concatenation and repetition
  Remember that 'x' is different to '*' and lists are different to arrays,
• 2017.12.17 in #335 Moo: One approach to terminating the process when attributes of a dynamically assigned role are missing
  
• 2018.01.30 in #341 The challenge of recruiting Perl developers
  Reduce the technical debt. Make the code your developers need to maintain saner. Provide Perl Training. Or read what the Redditors say.
• 2018.06.03 in #358 Growing your Perl Team BOF
  Andrew is running this Birds of a Feather at the up-coming YAPC::EU in Glasgow.
• 2018.10.14 in #377 Case Study - Geekuni at Booking.com, 2018
  Instead of trying to hire just 'Perl developers' Booking is hiring developers in general and teaches them how to write in Perl. Sounds as if they invented the wheel, but it is really just common sense. Other companies might take similar route.
• 2018.10.14 in #377 YAPC BoF How to grow your Perl team
  a summary of the 'Growing your Perl Team' BoF at YAPC::EU
• 2019.05.11 in #407 Cross-training to grow your Perl team
  In a nutshell: how to train you front-end developers, system administrators, data-analysts to be able to write Perl code so the full-time Perl developers will have time to focus on the more complex tasks. Some pitfalls and how to avoid them.
• 2019.07.01 in #415 How to make Perl training part of the onboarding process
  'Demand for Perl developers far outstrips supply in the current job market, so hiring one can be expensive as well as a headache.' but here is a solution.
• 2019.07.01 in #415 Net::Stripe
  On September 14, there will be some big changes to the way that online payments work in Europe. Unfortunately we aren't 100% sure what they are! This is a thread for tracking new requirements of Net::Stripe
• 2021.05.03 in #511 The problem learning Perl using Google
  There were several earlier attempts to get people to link to modern Perl resources without a lot of success. Let's see if Andrew can get the community to influence Google search results.
• 2021.05.10 in #512 The support developers need - survey results and actions taken
  Andrew presenting the survey results and the actions taken based on the results.
• 2021.07.05 in #521 Finding a shared vision of Perl
  The Perl Foundation (TPF) is conducting research to identify the shared values of the Perl community, and their vision of the Perl ecosystem in years to come.
• 2022.07.15 in #573 Case Study - Geekuni at Grant Street Group, 2022
  This new case study will be helpful for any company looking to expand their Perl team - it's clear about what the challenges are!

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