2011.08.10 in #5In Praise of Perl and the Llama
Nikos Vaggalis writes about the new edition of the Learning Perl book and offers a few reasons why people should learn Perl. None of this is new to people already using Perl but I found it important to mention as this was published on a generic web site for programmers.
2014.11.26 in #175All about Mojolicious - interview of Sebastian Riedel part 1
Nikos Vaggalis looked at Mojolicious' history: why Sebastian left Catalyst for Mojolicious, present: what does the framework actually do, the project's future: Sebastian's long-term plans.
2016.07.25 in #262Health Level 7 (HL7) with Perl
Apparently, HL7 is the name of the defacto standard in the health sector for exchanging clinical and patient information over heterogeneous systems and there is a module called Net::HL7 to handle that format.
2018.06.25 in #362Massive Summer Event
Nikos Vaggalis talks about workshops by GeekUni and Dave Cross at the European Perl Conference in Glasgow.
2018.10.17 in #378Sourcegraph Powers Up Your Code Repository
Sourcegraph is a code navigation engine that non-destructively rearranges your repository's structure to organize it, as well as powering it up with code intelligence and advanced search capabilities.
2018.11.26 in #384The Perl Renaming Debate Highlights Tensions
Nikos Vaggalis takes us in the past and shares what people thought about it then. A very interesting insights into the debate. Highly recommended.
2018.12.27 in #388GitLab goes serverless
GitLab adds to the competition among cloud services providers with its own FaaS solution.
2019.01.09 in #390EU Bug Bounty - Software Security as a Civil Right
This EU initiative is part of the Free and Open Source Software Audit (FOSSA) project, thanks to Julia Reda MEP of the EU Pirate Party, who started the project thinking that enough is enough after severe vulnerabilities were discovered in key infrastructure components like OpenSSL.
2021.01.08 in #494New To Perl? What Do You Need?
Developers who use Perl are invited to take a survey to provide feedback on what help and guidance they would find useful. It's a Perl Foundation initiative to guide developers in their journey of learning Perl.