We're a growing software company using open source software/modern Perl practices to build innovative e-payment, auction, and tax collection web applications.
We're looking for talented, motivated professionals committed to flawless work and customer service.
Please apply online.

by Buddy Burden (BAREFOOT)

It is Buddy Burden again, explaining how Perl is the language that Gets Shit Done, but probably a lot more importantly, he explained his process of finding candidates for employment. I know not many companies work that way, but I think it is great. I love it!

by David Golden (DAGOLDEN)

I keep using the cwd() function from the Cwd module when I need the current working directory, but I think David Golden has a point. I should just change the habit and start using getcwd().

by Sinan Unur (NANIS)

An article by A. Sinan Unur using regexes and HTML::TokeParser::Simple.

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

Curtis 'Ovid' Poe, who runs the company called 'All Around the World' with his wife, has released some of their test-training materials under the Creative Commons by-nc license.

by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK)

Last week we saw some discussion about the problems FATAL warnings can cause. In response to that, Toby Inkster created a module that will leave run-time warnings alone and only turn compile-time warning into exceptions.

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

Use __DATA__, Use FindBin to locate the data file, Makefile.PL / Build.PL and use File::Share. See the explanation of David Farrell.

by Ron Savage (RSAVAGE)

Ron Savage describes how he installed DBD::mysql and used it to access MariaDB.

by Yanick Champoux (YANICK)

Yanick Champoux writes: Something that Catalyst has and Dancer doesn't is chained routes. But he cannot leave it that way, can he?

by John Napiorkowski (JJNAPIORK)

Before every release, John Napiorkowski checks if Catalyst with all of its 117 dependencies can be installed on a clean Perl. Spoiler: it can be.

(reddit)

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

An excellent compilation by David Farrell of some of the newly released modules on CPAN.

Ali Anari from Crowdt:lt while creating and upload WebService::NationBuilder to CPAN.

by Mark Leighton Fisher

As Mark Leighton Fisher explains: the Jaccard Similarity Coefficient is a simple measure of how similar 2 sets are.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

This is mostly for researchers, who, for some strange reason, would like to research the content of ancient distributions uploaded to CPAN.

pmtools aka. Perl Module Tools is a collection of command line tools that can show you the location of a module, the version number, etc.

After a long break, finally Randy J. Ray has released a new version of his module and even blogged about it!. The next day the CPAN Testers sent him fail reports, which lead to some interesting bug hunting. (I hope he'll post about that too).

by Philippe Bruhat (BOOK)

It is a really great description of how BooK found an unmaintained module, got ownership in a nice way and released a new version of the module.

One of the tools that I saw have brought people to use Perl was Image::ExifTool. Martin Evans show a simple use-case.

The Perl Foundation wants to participate in the GSOC again. It is looking for mentors!

by Daisuke Maki (DMAKI)

Daisuke Maki has replaced Renée Bäcker.

by John Scoles (BYTEROCK)

How to use (or avoid) the before and after method modifiers of Moose.

I have been using Vim for many years, but watching this video taught me so many new things. Presented by Doug Miles at the Phoenix Perl Mongers meeting.

Finally I understood what the attributes on functions can do. They are like decorators in Python, but way more powerful. Presented by Steve Baker at the Phoenix Perl Mongers meeting.

See also the mailing list or contact Robert Blackwell directly. (reddit)

Matthew Wilson (diakopter) invested quite some time to compare stats on Perl vs other programming languages. Especially Python. Does not look good. So what does this mean to you? reddit.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

My collection of some numbers. Most interesting are the Google Analytics graphs from blogs.perl.org, MetaCPAN, and search.cpan.org.

by Damian Conway (DCONWAY)

Damian Conway will run a class called Understanding Regular Expressions in London on 12th March. See the description and the link to registration.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

As part of the series describing the class Object Oriented System of Perl, this article shows operator overloading.

The 3rd part of the classic OOP series.

Do you know what is the real name of the ternary operator?

March 13-16, 2014, Lyon, France

April 2014, Swindon, UK

22-24 August, 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria

5-6 September, 2014, Flörli Olten, Switzerland

In the following cities: Lyon (FR), Hannover (DE), Swindon (UK), Utrecht (NL), Poznan (PL), Prague (CZ), Kiev (UA), Orlando (FL/US), Sofia (BG), Flörli Olten (CH)