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by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

Neil Bowers points out the advantages of specifying the supported perl versions of your distributions.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Gabor Szabo is the owner of the 'perlprogramming.org' domain, but doesn't really have a use for it. So he's asking if anybody is interested in taking over.

by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK)

Type::Tiny is one of those keystone minimal implementation-distribution that found their way in almost everybody's toolbox. Toby Inkster announces proudly that it has now reached its v1.0 milestone.

by Christian Walde (MITHALDU)

Mithaldu let us know that a new version of PPI is out. It's faster, with more documentation, tests, and now live on GitHub!

by Sinan Unur (NANIS)

Sinan Unur releases App::multiwhich, a variation of the venerable 'which' command.

BooK announces the arrival of a new CPAN site. It's still very new and very bare, but it might pay to come back and have a look at it in the upcoming weeks.

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

Database schemas are hard to get right. Ovid tries to help us along the way, and shares a quick checks that is likely to make some of its flaws come out of the woodwork.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

CPANTesters is the bee's knee, but recently we have seen the rise of Travis CI, a general-purpose testing service. Neil Bowers shows us here how to use it for Perl distributions.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

Neil Bowers regales us with a break-neck recap of the last 20 years of CPAN.

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

Ovid discusses at a high-level the challenges and intricacies that goes in writing a MMORPG.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

Neil Bowers makes the case for putting your CPAN distribution on GitHub.

by Richard Elberger (RICHE)

Richard Elberger discusses how he ported an application from Axis2 to Mojolicious.

by Chad Granum (EXODIST)

Lots of changes are coming to Test::Builder. Chad Granum explains their motivation here.

by Ingy döt Net (INGY)

Now that the dust is settling on CPAN day, peoples are looking at the scoreboard of releases. Samuel Kaufman draws our attention on Ingy dot Net, who really went ALL out.

by Richard Elberger (RICHE)

Richard Elberger is the new maintainer of Net::Gnats, an interface to the GNU Gnats bug tracking system.

Having it is only half the battle: one has to also be able to find it. Mike Greb shares his tricks to find what he's looking for in a local CPAN mirror.

So your little Catalyst application is not so little anymore, and it has reached a size where it becomes unwieldy and should be fragmented in smaller, separate parts. Dave Wood has been there, and tells us how he proceeded.

by brian d foy (BDFOY)

The slides of brian d foy's talk at the August meeting of Chicago.pm.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

In the following cities: Sofia (Bulgaria), Tokyo (Japan), Flörli Olten (Switzerland), Hancock (NY/USA), Itapema (SC/Brasil), Salzburg (Austria), Barcelona (Spain), London (UK)