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chromatic is the author of Modern Perl, a book that for the last few years fills the niche of presenting Perl via the lense of its modern best practices. The electronic versions of the book (pdf, ePub, mobi) are available for free, and the raw source of the book itself is available on GitHub.

It's modern, and now available as a ePub and mobi eBooks.

by Thomas Klausner (DOMM)

Not anything planned for this October? How about visiting the beautiful city of Salzburg, and attend the Austrian Perl Workshop?

Hunting for conferences that are not in exotic, incredibly warm places? The Swiss Perl Workshop now has rented its locale.

Infinity Interactive's list of YAPC::NA courses. Yes, there is still time to register for these!

by Yuki Kimoto (KIMOTO)

Yuki Kimoto releases a new version of GitPrep, the Perl-based GitHub-like repository service.

by Salvador Fandiño (SALVA)

Hankering for conferences in exotic locations? The Granada Perl Workshop is going to take place on Friday, June the 27th, Salvador Fandino reminds us.

by Karen Pauley

Only a handful of weeks until YAPC::NA, and Khaos is slowly preparing herself to take the road for the event.

by Andy Lester (PETDANCE)

As a follow-up to Andy Lester's article of last week, Joe McMahon reminesces about the days where computers's weight (in tons) and storage capacity (in megs) were roughly equivalent, and how that wildly different paradigm shaped his skills.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Gabor has reasons to celebrate: Maven Pro is now one year old!

This entry is the first of a series, where Kasek Galgal plans to explore the role and potential of Perl in developing countries.

by Michael Gerb.

by Mike Friedman

Perl 5.20 gives us a few more shiny tools to play with, but enabling them usually requires a line or two more of boilerplate code at the top of your files. Mike Friedman wants the former very much, but isn't too keen on the latter.

by Paul Evans (PEVANS)

List::Util and List::MoreUtils are a cornucopia of useful functions. LeoNerd tells us about the latest changes that come to them for, and in the wake of, the 5.20.0 release.

by Steven Haryanto (SHARYANTO)

Steven Haryanto shares a few more tools useful for the scrubbing and clean-up the old releases of one's CPAN account.

The original skyline uses Python's numpy and scipy. Here we have a port of its algorithms in Perl's own PDL.

Owner of an Apple laptop and want to query and graph your battery usage? mikegrb has a script for you.

Dmitry Karasik is porting a First-Person engine in Perl using Cairo. Good news, the coding was smooth sailing. Bad news, performance is not quite the zippiest.

by Stefan Hornburg (HORNBURG)

Stefan Hornburg (Racke) talks about Dancer and DBIx::Class. (35 min)

In direct from NLPW::2014, Merijin Band (Tux) presents "CSV Less complicated". (40 min)

by Theo van Hoesel (VANHOESEL)

Theo van Hoesel talks about math and how he extended Number::Fraction. (20 min)

Elizabeth Mattijsen (liz) comparing Perl 5 and Perl 6 syntax. (40 min)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

Why Perl could not parse the JSON file created by a Python script?

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