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Emma Howson is learning Perl and writing about it.

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

Using Perl::Critic to improve the code of your module is important, but is it also important to use it to clean up your tests? Asks Randy J. Ray. (hint: yes)

by Steven Haryanto (SHARYANTO)

Excellent example using signals to ask a program: What are you doing?

by John Napiorkowski (JJNAPIORK)

John Napiorkowski has a farm and raises all kinds of animals. Not surprising that he named the next release of Catalyst after the Ancona Duck.

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

David Farrel describes how to get started with this new blogging platform. Have you started to use it? If yes, please let me know, even if the blog is not about Perl. (reddit)

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

Neil Bowers continues his quest to make CPAN a better place. This time he calls upon the CPAN authors to make sure the one-line abstract they have for their modules is well formatted. (This is another excellent opportunity to get your feet wet if you'd like to contribute to a CPAN module. Help an author fix the tag-line.)

Martin Evans uploaded the latest production version to CPAN.

by JT Smith (RIZEN)

JT Smith implemented the Perl side of the iflychat web chat service so you can integrate it with your website.

by brian d foy (BDFOY)

brian d foy describes the background, how modules on CPAN that have lost their original author can live on, and gain a new maintainer. brian also mentioned the available RSS feeds on Perl authors on O'Reilly Programming blog.

By Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason.

by Timm Murray (TMURRAY)

Timm Murray reporting from the Wumpus Cave: The UAV::Pilot distribution is going to be split into several smaller distributions.

by Dan Wright (DWRIGHT)

This is the annual report of The Perl Foundation. Many thanks to Dan Wright who started to produce these reports in the last 2 or 3 years.

It is chromatic reaching a certain age an contemplating his past and future. A good read for some of us with comments on reddit.)

by Buddy Burden (BAREFOOT)

Part 11 of the series Buddy Burden has been publishing.

by Timo Paulssen

MoarVM has it own web site, doc.perl6.org became prettier among many other news. Including a section on how can you get involved.

by JT Smith (RIZEN)

JT Smith shows several stages in the design of space looks like in Lacuna Expanse.

by Peter Rabbitson (RIBASUSHI)

Gittip is a place where you can set up a regular weekly contribution to someone (probably an open source developer). Last week Peter Rabbitson called upon the Perl community to join Gittip and start giving a few dollars a week, this time it is Ovid. His point was that even just having Perl on the front page of Gittip will help Perl. Indeed his call brought Perl from the 19th place to the 10th place. I think we can do even better. The only thing you need to do is to join the 'Perl community' at Gittip. This is free. - Of course I'd go further and call upon you to start sending a few dollars a week.

Some background story about DDG on how they care about our privacy, and a few words on the fact that they mostly use Perl. - They currently serve more than 4,000,000 search queries per day.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

Is the meaning of the above words clear to you? Do you maybe use some of them interchangeably? Have some of those several different meanings?

Have you encountered the problem that forked processes generate the same series of random numbers? Here is why, and how to avoid it.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Perl events need funding. Developers need training. Companies need more knowledgeable developer. Some of us like teaching and visiting places. A win-win situation. So if you are an organizer, please get in touch, but if you are a would be attendee at one of the events, you could also contact the organizers and ask them about courses.

March 31, 2014, Cluj, Romania

13-14 June 2014, Paris, France

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