by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

Chris Williams (aka BINGOS) is another of those elder members of the Perl community. He maintains an impressive number of modules deadling with the testing toolchain, the Windows environment, Dist-Zilla and the asynchronous POE framework. He's also one of the most, if not THE most, active CPAN tester. Neil Bowers points out in an article this month that Chris reported his twentieth million smoke test, an accomplishment that is quite awe-inspiring.

All the cool kids are doing it. And now, at least one cool tookit is doing it as well. CPAN Testers now has an official Twitter account.

by David Cantrell (DCANTRELL)

Usually, we announce new things. This time, however, David Cantrell warns us that CPANdeps and cpXXXan are going down (but only on the 28th, just long enough for a data center move)

If you are going to YAPC::NA, consider adding your arrival/departure times to this wiki, to facilitate meet-ups and cab sharings.

Mojolicious had its own conference in 2014, and Salve J. Nilsen brings us tidings that it'll happen again next year.

Remember the Vim function that Ovid brought to our attention last week? confuseAcat revisits it, and proposes some improvements.

Peter Martini has a look at this old two-edged sword that is Perl's sub prototypes.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

The CPAN testing network could be argue to be the awesome marrow that is one of the prime factors that makes the CPAN skeleton so strong. But, of course, this testing network is not run magically by elves. Neil Bowers takes time to tip his hat to Chris Williams, who reported this month his 20th million test report. Yes, that's two-zero-zero-zero-zero-zero-zero and zero.

Nikos Vaggalis reviews brian d foy's Master Perl's book.

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

Exercism.io is an awesome site giving small tasks to learn a vast array of languages, and providing a nice feedback system. David Farrell shows how easily one can contribute to and expand the list of Perl exercises.

Here is a feature that you probably didn'y know about. Not content to merely having unearthed this gem, Peter Martini also sleuthes around and finds out exactly since when, and why, this feature has been lurking in the depths of Perl's guts.

Foswiki is revving up for its 1.2 release.

by Barbie (BARBIE)

Ooooh, statistics! Barbie shares the survey results of both the Deutscher and the Nederlandse Perl workshops.

by Herbert Breunung (LICHTKIND)

Lichtkind reports on the first Czech Perl workshop.

YAPC::NA is almost upon us (only one more month to go), but the communication channels of the conferences have been rather quiet. To the point that Laufeyjarson muses aloud if he should go. For once, the comments shouldn't be skipped as Chris Prather, one of the organizers, explains the silence, and issues reassurances that the conference is still happening.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

While you can put more than one package in one .pm file, Gabor Szabo reminds us that we don't necessary want to do that.

Good news for module repository wranglers everywhere: Neil Bowers and Barbie joined forces, and a new index generator for the BackPAN, or a mirror following its structure.

Gabor plays the number game and sees how many of the new distributions advertise their licenses and repository urls.

by Thomas Klausner (DOMM)

Like App::TimeTracker? The Trello organizer web service as well? You're in luck: domm just extended the former to work with the latter.

Ovid is working on his sci-fi, mmorpg browser-based game, and he needs your help for the hardest task of them all: find the right name for the thing.

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

Sawyer X at NLPW::2014::Utretcht, being his awesome, profane, wonderful self. (20 min)

Paul Fenwick gave this talk in 2012 at the Perth Linux User Group. (80 min)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

In the following cities: Paris (FR), St. Petersburg (Ru), Orlando (FL/USA), Sofia (BG), Flörli Olten (CH)