by Sebastian Riedel (SRI)

Congratulation to Sebastian Riedel (sri) and the rest of the Mojolicious team! A number of significant changes were listed in the announcement. For example the minimum required version of perl was moved up to 5.10.1 and Morbo was added. Morbo is the self-restarting development web server that just works, even on Windows.

by John Napiorkowski (JJNAPIORK)

John Napiorkowski is running an 8-week long Perl class introducing Modern Perl to people new to Perl. This seems like a great opportunity to send a friend of you to learn Perl on a very low cost training class.

Jacinta Richardson has just sent out the latest issue of the Perl Tips. This is a great overview of why you need to write automated tests. She is also describing the two major testing strategies: White Box Testing and Black Box Testing. In addition, if you were subscribed to their perl-tips newsletter, you'd get a discount on their next training course.

After more than 2 months of absence, Denise, one of the two owners of the site, has posted a longish update on what's going on at Dreamwidth. In case you don't know, DreamWidth is an open source fork of the LiveJournal system with a very open policy of publishing content.

Chisel gives some very useful tips on how to configure the built-in command line debugger of Perl.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

Another excellent post by Neil Bowers comparing modules to parse the User-Agent strings passed by browsers to web servers. It sounds like a simple problem but due to the 'interesting' decisions made by the browser authors it became an annoyance. Having so many different solutions to this problem just adds to the confusion so I think it is great Neil compared them and recommended one.

by Yanick Champoux (YANICK)

Yanick Champoux continuous describing how to use Pod::Weaver. Specifically he described plugins, sections and bundles

Clinton Gormley is considering ditching RDBM for his next application and using ElasticSearch as the only data store. For this he wanted to have a human friendly way to get unique sequence numbers from ElasticSearch.

by Leon Timmermans (LEONT)

Some people complain that 5.12 and 5.14 have not added many new user visible features to Perl. Leon Timmermans asks why do we want them. I think the more interesting question would be 'What new features do you want in core Perl?' and that's what some people answered. That's what you should also consider and post as a comment.

Peter Makholm describes a sequence of operations he has implemented several times already - something like a proxy - and how this was getting frustrating to do so and how it was not working really well. So he is proposing a new module to wrap splice(2) of Linux.

Posted by Jonathan 'Duke' Leto

by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN)

Jonathan Worthington describes his work that will be included in the October release of Rakudo. This brings the performance of Rakudo, in some very specific cases, to be - let me be careful here - not too far from that of Perl 5.

by Ricardo Signes (RJBS)

Lovely report by Ricardo Signes (rjbs)

by Daisuke Maki (DMAKI)

Daisuke Maki (lestrrat) points out that they collected more than 150 blog posts about YAPC::Asia. Most of them are in Japanese of course but there are a number of entries in English for the rest of us. I think this is awesome to have so much publicity and to provide some sort of recognition to the bloggers themselves.

This is the report of the 3rd day of the German Perl Workshop by Wolfgang Kinkeldei. Links to the previous reports can be found in the comments.

November 4-5, 2011, Vienna, Austria and Bratislava, Slovakia

November 12, 2011, London, UK

January 13-15, 2012, Orlando, Florida, USA