2012.04.05 in #37use Perl6; A few very welcome changes in Perl5++
Steve Bertrand started his Perl blog by learning, and explaining a bit about Perl 6. Its nice to see and I hope more people will start discovering it.
2012.04.06 in #37use Perl; Guide to references: Part 1
This is the 1st part of a 4 part series of posts by Steve Bertrand explaining references in Perl. If you are struggling with this part of Perl, you might want to give this a try. Two newer parts are already linked from this one.
2016.06.02 in #254Revisiting Perl 6, and my first PR
It's the classic story: boy meets language, boy learns language, boy somewhat ends up submitting patch for language.
2017.01.27 in #288Send in a Perl aref to C, get back a Perl array
Steve shows you "how to pass a Perl array reference (aref) into a C function, convert the aref into a C array, work on it, then push it back onto the stack so the C function returns it as a Perl array".
2017.03.17 in #295Wrapping a C shared library with Perl and XS
Stealing the first line of Steve's post: this tutorial shows how to wrap a C shared library using XS and Perl (including creating a trivial test shared library).
2017.03.31 in #297berrybrew, the Perlbrew for Windows has been updated
Berrybrew is a tool for Windows users that can manage installations of multiple versions of Perl, like perlbrew. There's a new version of berrybrew available, and this post summarises the changes.
2017.06.26 in #310List your dist's prereqs where newer versions have become available
Steve has written a module (and script) that will go through all modules by an author, and check their dependencies, to see if there's a newer version on CPAN than is required by the target module. You shouldn't automatically bumped the required version of your dependencies to the latest release, unless you're sure that your module really does require that release. Generally specifying a version is either to ensure a feature you rely on is available, or to avoid one or more bugs in earlier releases.
2017.07.17 in #313berrybrew, the Perlbrew for Windows, updated to v1.13
A new version of berrybrew has been released. This lets you have multiple versions of Perl installed on a Windows machine, and switch between them as your default Perl.
2017.12.28 in #336Verifying your distribution's revdeps still work after a change
When you upload a new version of your distribution, it is not enough to test that it still works on its own. It is also a good idea to test all the other distributions that depend on your code. Have you made an unplanned backward incompatible change that did not have a test?
2021.02.12 in #499berrybrew version 1.33 released!
berrybrew allows you to build and install your own versions of Perl on MS Windows. I personally don't know why you would need this unless you are writing some Perl code for Windows so I'd love to hear from people who use berrybrew - in what situation do you need it?