A new 3-day conference revolving around Perl, the web and Mojolicious is coming to Oslo in May 23-25, 2014.

3 May, 2014, Silver Spring, MD, USA

by Moritz Lenz (MORITZ)

Moritz Lenz's website Sudokugarden recently got a sizable spike in its traffic. With great success come scaling snags. He shares with us the problems the site hit, and what he did to work around them.

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

DBIx::Class is a pretty useful piece of software. Ovid, however, takes it one step further and leverages its mechanisms to help in the design and sanity-check of database schemas.

The key to a healthy database is eagle eyes. Johnny Morano shares with us how he gathers and reports statistics from his PostgreSQL database.

You release a module to CPAN. And then, boom, error reports begin to pour in. What to do? Is panic the appropriate reaction? Randy J. Ray shares his experience, and his recommendations on how to stop worrying, and love the reports.

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

David Farrell shows us one of the new cool features coming in Perl 5.20.

The difference between arrays and lists is a subtle one, and tripped more than one beginner. Emma Howson discusses those two beasties, highlighting in which ways they are alike and differ.

by Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Joel Berger reminesces on his DFW deduplication contest entry.

Martin Evans benchmarks the main Perl HTTP clients, reasserting the merit of some old workhorses, and introducing some interesting newcomers.

by Buddy Burden (BAREFOOT)

by Mark Dominus (MJD)

Why? Because it's usually simple to do, and makes things easy. Mark Dominus makes the case for the ever-useful unique identifier.

Twelve of the current big Perl players have been asked the question: "This is February 2014. What's the state of Perl?"

by Peter Rabbitson (RIBASUSHI)

Peter Rabbitson (aka. Ribasushi) embraced the current Perl Gittip movement, and argues how it can be a good way to give a nod to your favorite CPAN authors.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

Gittip now has a Perl community. If you are a CPAN author, you should consider joining. Here, Neil Bowers shows you how to add a gittip icon to your MetaCPAN account (spoiler: it's super easy).

Minesh Patel gives an introduction to the joys of Devel::Cover.

by Barbie (BARBIE)

Barbies offers a view of what's happening in the Perl world, through tester's lenses.

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

Testing with databases is typically hard and messy. Yet, sanity might shines at the end of the tunnel: Ovid has a new way to manage those unruly fixtures.

by Yanick Champoux (YANICK)

On the outside, the new version of Git::CPAN::Patch will now clone the official git repository of a module if available. On the inside, Yanick discusses how to write tests for a module that pushes all of the hard buttons (command-line scripts, file/directory meddlings, network access, the works).

by Yanick Champoux (YANICK)

Hadoop's Oozie logs are a little... noisy. To be able to pare them down to something readable, Yanick wrote a small script.

Code in Ruby? Love Moose? Rejoice, for there is now a port of our favorite ungulated OO system in the land of gems.

Lincoln Stein, the original creator of CGI.pm, the module that helped lots of people in the 90's and that's is still in use in many places, is now looking for a new primary maintainer for the module. Its your chance for fame. Or at least to contribute to the greater good.

by Andrew Solomon (ILLY)

The results of the survey of the Perl Web Development job market conducted by Andrew Solomon.

by JT Smith (RIZEN)

Video of JT Smith's talk. And if those are stupid tricks, I guess we probably could all use a few more concussions in our lives.

Interview with Jay from last year.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

What is my and what is our?

Two 'magic' variables in Perl.

In the following cities: Lyon (FR), Hannover (DE), Swindon (UK), Utrecht (NL), Silver Spring, (MD/USA), Poznan (PL), Prague (CZ), Oslo (NO), Kiev (UA), Orlando (FL/US), Sofia (BG), Flörli Olten (CH)