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by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

Neil Bowers released a new scoring method and a new list of top 1000 CPAN distributions that might need adoption.

by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (MIYAGAWA)

Meta fatpacking by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa

by Christian Walde (MITHALDU)

TIOBE ranks programming languages. While many people shown that TIOBE has its flaws, most people only want an easy answer and thus look at TIOBE for an answer. Mithaldu (aka. Christian Walde) has a long fight improving the position of Perl. The simple point is that it would be probably hard to get TIOBE fixed and we - people writing about Perl - are misleading the way it creates its ranking. (You can see some numbers in the post and in the comment section.) So the suggestion is to use the expression 'Perl Programming' in places where you'd normally just write Perl. You might think 'why should we play according to their rules?', but isn't that what we do when we provide solutions in broken environments, using outdated software? Isn't that part of what we, Perl programmers, excel? Mithaldu included some simple instructions for what you could do, even if you don't have a web site.

by Mark Leighton Fisher

How can you run something on the command line 'as administrator' on a Windows machine? Mark Leighton Fisher has an almost one-liner in Perl.

by JT Smith (RIZEN)

I've heard about SQL and NoSQL but I think this is the first time I hear the expression 'Column Oriented Databases'. JT Smith writes that these are good for data warehousing or catalog app.

by Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Joel Berger was asked to give the keynote at YAPC::Brazil and he now invites all of you to attend the conference.

Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer is looking for someone with design talent to polish the site before going into beta later this month. (It is interesting for me too as I'd also like to have a nice design for the Perl Maven site.)

I am not sure I like the whole idea of betting on sports games of others, but I hear there is a lot of money in that field. So you might be able to make a few million dollars offering such a service, and then you can donate part of that money to the development of Perl or of CPAN modules. I bet that would be cool.

Do you like to use the latest version of Perl, Python or Ruby? Apparently you share this problem with oylenshpeegul (aka. Tim Heaney). He used to use perlbrew, pythonbrew, and rvm for this, but now he found rbenv, plenv and pyenv. But he still needs to handle 3 different tools for 3 different languages. That's where acmenv comes in to play. I wonder in which languages it is going to be written?

by John Napiorkowski (JJNAPIORK)

John Napiorkowski is thinking about the next milestone of Catalyst.

by Brian Medley (BPMEDLEY)

Brian Medley set up a new site as a new start-up company to find bargains near your current location. It uses Mojolicious, PostgreSQL, jQuery Mobile, and a couple of other technologies. I think it is currently only relevant to the USA, but I wish good luck to Brian!

by Larry Wall

by Jonathan Schiefer

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

It is very easy to upload new modules to CPAN and it is not too difficult to take over maintainership of a module, but this usually only happens after a long period of inactivity on that module. How can a module author indicate that she is no longer interested in the maintenance of the module and that she is looking for someone to step in? While there is no special mechanism for this, Neil Bowers explains what is the accepted way to mark a module to be looking for a new maintainer.

Do you use 'screen' for your command line work? I have it running on each one of my servers, but I thought I should have a central one that is already logged in to all the other machines. Dominic Humphries explains how he does that and how he even keeps the colors.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

This is a guest post written by Meir Guttman providing a relatively short overview of what is Unicode. This article does not cover Perl yet, it is a generic introduction.

September 19-21, 2013, Keio University Hiyoshi Campus, Tokyo, Japan

October 4-5, 2013, Paris, France

October 4-6, 2013, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

November 15-16, 2013, Curitiba, PR, Brazil