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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS)

So there are all those web services out there, with glorious APIs. And they have documentation pages, offering helpful examples. Often in Ruby, Python, in PHP, perhaps even in Java. In Perl? Alas, that happens more rarely. Dave Cross, bless his heart, wants to fix that.

It's not too late! The Hackaton ends on the 8th, so provided you have enough coffee and ramen noodle packs close by, you still have time to join.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

Neil Bowers offers us a CPAN-based retrospective of 2013. Which namespace had the most growth? Which author released the most distributions? How many new modules were born? He presents the shocking answers to all those questions. (warning: seeing the statistics of the most CPAN prolific authors is likely to make you feel like an unredeemable slacker)

by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK)

Thought that December was strictly for reindeers? Hah! Toby Inkster proves you wrong.

2013 was a pleasantly busy year in the Perlverse. chromatic presents here the highlight of the last twelve months.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

Want to have the awesomeness of a full year of brilliant minds doing brilliant things distilled into 10 bullet points? Here's the top ten distributions of 2013, according to their metacpan ratings.

Caching. In a nutshell, we want it to be fast, reliable and not too much of a pig, memory-wise. Celogeek helpfully benchmarks here a few of the typically used caching modules/solutions.

chromatic muses on the balancing act for a programming language of having a vision, and yet not allowing itself not to be blinded by it.

by Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Just when you thought you seen it all... Joel Berger comes here with what seems to be a new coding pattern.

by Yanick Champoux (YANICK)

Yanick revisits his old idea of a web library tool, meant to complement and work with your favorite web framework.

by Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Prototypes and the use of '&' for function invocation... two things newbies gleefully hamstrings themselves with. Joel Berger shows us here a good example why those constructs are tricky, and should be used with caution.

Steffen Mueller announces the official release of Sereal v2, the serialization protocol concocted by the fine folks at Booking.com.

by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK)

Not only do you want your attributes to be read-only, but also want to ensure that whatever structure they point to stays unmodified? Toby Inkster has a solution for you.

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

Most Perl modules are trivial to install. A select few are however... ah, shall we say, more challengeful? Image::Magick is definitively an emerit member of this very exclusive teeth-gnashing club. But take heart: David Farrell shares with us the proper incantation to summon this most useful image manipulation module to your machine.

by Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Want to add a method to Test::Mojo, but don't want to commit the sin of monkey-patching? Joel Berger is there to offer you a more virtuous alternative.

Miyagawa walks us through minting a new distribution with Milla, his user-friendlier, customized Dist::Zilla wrapper application.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

January 25th, 2014, Tampa, Florida, USA

March 26-28, 2014, Hannover, Germany

16-18 May, 2014 in Poznan, Poland