by Renee Baecker (RENEEB)

Renee Baecker announced that the 20th edition of the German $foo Magazine is at the newstands. Well, sort of. Of course, it is in German.

by Ricardo Signes (RJBS)

Let's thank Jesse Vincent for his excellent work on leading the Perl 5 porters improving Perl in a direction we did not believe could happen. Then let's thank Ricardo Signes (RJBS) for taking this hard job.

In response to an article by Ovid, linked from this article, chromatic explains why he prefers to use the name 'technical friction' where others, use 'technical debt'. Its an interesting discussion that can have some impact on how developers and management sees (bad) code.

by Olaf Alders (OALDERS)

Olaf Alders celebrates the first anniversary of MetaCPAN and uses the opportunity to mention the recent changes. If you still have not switched to MetaCPAN, this might be a good opportunity to give it a try.

by John SJ Anderson (GENEHACK)

John Anderson (genehack) continuous his series explaining how he is building a Catalyst based project. This time he is using CatalystX::SimpleLogin to add authentication to the application. Code, explanations, tests. It's a great series to learn how to build a real application.

John Wang takes his recent experience explaining why he is using Perl and shows what kind of articles he would like to see. In a nutshell, he tries to show 'How Moose makes Perl more Maintainable than Other Languages'.

A while ago Alberto Simões started a CPAN book. As he is too busy with his regular work now he asked for contributors. If you like the idea and have some time, this can be a great way to contribute to the community.

by Jeffrey Thalhammer (THALJEF)

In this weeks episode of the FLOSS Weekly Randal Schwartz and Aaron Newcomb interview Jeffrey Thalhammer, the developer of Perl::Critic. It's an hour long video (though you can also download the audio alone) in which you can learn about the history and the future of Perl Critic. You can hear about the problems the developers encountered but maybe most importantly you can get some ideas how to get started with it and how to convince your manager and your co-workers to use it.

Stanislav Sinyagin gave presentations about 3 Perl-based open-source software products for network management and monitoring: Torrus, Gerty and Mooxu.

by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY)

Dave Jacoby from /var/log/rant describes his alternative to the well known traveling salesman problem and provides code implementing it.

Almost every Perl programmer who ever gave a presentation has written a system for creating slides. Some have done it more than once. This time Michele Beltrame (arthas) shares his own version. It looks simple and very nice and he shared the code as well. I think I'll rewrite mine now, based on ideas from his software :)

by Sebastian Riedel (SRI)

Sebastian Riedel (sri) showing some code how WebSockets can be used in Mojolicious.

by Al Newkirk (AWNCORP)

Al Newkirk (awnstudio) created a screen-cast for Mojolicious.

by Barbie (BARBIE)

In his monthly CPAN Testers report Barbie told us about the e-mail reports that are being sent again, about the updated statistics of the system and that finally they might be able to accept donations.

by Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi (VTI)

Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi (vti) collected the best practices of TDD (Test Driven Development)

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

When starting a new module it is very easy to start writing unit tests from the beginning. In this article, from yours truly, you can learn how to use the Perl testing framework in the most simple way. This article marks the renewal of the Test Automation Tips newsletter. If you are interested, please subscribe.

by Mark Keating

I was a bit surprised to see Mark Keating (mdk) writing about Perl code and not only about marketing and organizing things but maybe the fresh air in San Francisco had its effects.

by Solomon Foster

Solomon Foster (colomon) takes the newly release Niecza Perl 6 for a ride to handle his collection of 23,564 MP3 files.

by Damian Conway (DCONWAY)

Damian Conway is going to give 4 public training classes in Melbourne and Brisbane. I guess I don't need to explain why is it great to hear the Perl Best Practices from its author but maybe the Presentation Aikido needs a bit more push. I was lucky to see part of this presentation at YAPC::EU in Riga. It is great. If you give talks (e.g. at conferences or in your company) it is worth attending.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

I think in the last week I've published 5 new entries in the Perl Tutorial. They are all more or less equal in importance so instead of pointing out one of them, I am linking to the main page of the whole tutorial.

by Christian Walde (MITHALDU)

In this article I was trying to encourage the Perl community to help the newbies by directing them to the good Perl Tutorials. At the end of the article you can find a link to the new web site of Christian Walde (Mithaldu) cataloging the Perl tutorials.

by Christian Walde (MITHALDU)

Christian Walde (Mithaldu) started a listing and evaluating all the Perl tutorials on the Internet. It would be of great help if you could also help him.

November 12, 2011, London, UK

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