After 6 long years of waiting, the Movable Type Hackathon is finally returning to New York City on October 17th, 2013! There are still a few more places left.

by Thomas Klausner (DOMM)

Which is less than 3 weeks away!

Although the example published by Johnny Morano uses CGI, it can help you get started with the creation of a chart showing the earth and displaying the countries with different colors.

by Yanick Champoux (YANICK)

Oozie is a workflow scheduler for Hadoop that defines its workflows using a horrific XML dialect. Yanick Champoux took his Template::Caribou for a ride to make the XML behave.

by Timm Murray (TMURRAY)

Parsing the error messages from a test script might be difficult as those include free text and were designed to be read by humans, not by computers. OTOH if you can get a well formatted version of this output then it will be possible and even easy to write a parser for them. This is what came out of the Wumpus Cave of Timm Murray.

by David Cantrell (DCANTRELL)

I did not have time to listen to the actual podcast yet, but what David Cantrell writes about the distinction between Quality Control and Quality Assurance is interesting.

There was a big server upgrade that went well with only a few hiccups. Of course the server is not free. You can read how it is being financed.

by Rob Hoelz (RHOELZ)

In this part of the series, Rob Hoelz covers the optree, which is quite similar to what others might call an abstract syntax tree (AST). comments

by Damian Conway (DCONWAY)

Tom Christiansen started discussing the idea to create a set of Perl::Critic rules that will cover the recommendations of the Camel book (aka. Programming Perl). In case you don't know, Perl::Critic is the implementation of the recommendation from the book 'Perl Best Practices' written by Damian Conway. It is extendable and can server as a great tool to make sure your code follows recommended practices.

by Dominique Dumont

Thanks to Dominique Dumont, Debian and thus Ubuntu are going to get a new version of the Devel::ptkdb debugger.

Niels Thykier has recently released a new, and much faster version of autodie and now Lintian. autodie will turns silent errors into an exception, and Lintian is a Lint-like tool for Debian packages. It tries to find bugs and policy violations.

by David Golden (DAGOLDEN)

Do you know how should a version number on CPAN look like? Not? Don't worry. Apparently there are a few other people who have very interesting ideas about how version numbers should look like.

by David Golden (DAGOLDEN)

Apparently David Golden was on a roll checking CPAN. What is totally unclear to me is why do those two distribution need so many packages (modules)?

by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN)

Jonathan Worthington offers another peek into the labs of Perl 6.

DKIM is one of the tools that you, as a sysadmin, mail server owner can help your users to deliver their e-mail avoiding the spam-filters and to ensure that others cannot abuse your domain by faking messages being sent from it. DKIM signs the messages on the server so the recipient will be able to verify it really came from a server authorized for the domain.

by Tudor Constantin (TCONST)

Tudor Constantin reveals details about the most sacred. His salary. But not only that. He runs a comparison of income and cost of living in a couple of cities.

by Larry Wall

Did your study of linguistics play a role in Perl's development? - How are human languages and programming languages similar?

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

Devel::hdb tops the list the week I posted the article about it. Nice.

The weekly update by Konrad Borowski

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

In this article you get from zero to a deployed skeleton of a Dancer based web application.

October 24-25, 2013, Lisbon, Portugal

by Renee Baecker (RENEEB)

October 26-27, 2013, Frankfurt, Germany

November 2-3, 2013, Salzburg, Austria

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