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Dancer2 has a new release out, codenamed "LoonyPandora" in honor of contributor and friend James Aitken who recently passed away. This release comes with some pretty substantial changes dealing with the main context object and the way Dancer and PSGI apps relate to each other.

by Makoto Nozaki

Makoto Nozaki announces that Mark Jensen has joined the Perl Foundation Grants Committee has a grant manager.

Sad that YAPC::EU is over? Don't be! The Swiss Perl Workshop is happening in two weeks.

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

We all know: the language is only half of the story. The other half is the vast ecosystem of add-ons, modules, plugins or packages. David Farrell explores how the package managers of Perl, PHP, Python, Node.js and Ruby fare against each other.

The Google Summer of Code is winding down. Talina Shrotriya gives us her last thoughts as she enters the last week of the program.

The 2014 edition of the Outreach Program for Women is now over. Pattawan gives us here her last report for it, as well as what the near future has in stock for her.

Léon Brocard reports on the first day of YAPC::EU.

Perl blogger Tobez reports from the YAPC::EU front-line.

Tobez reports on day 2 of YAPC::EU.

Leon Brocard narrates his second YAPC::EU day.

Dan Muey would like not to see the ::Tiny namespace get out of hand.

by Barbie (BARBIE)

Barbie summarizes what happened in the world of Perl testing in July.

by Richard Elberger (RICHE)

Offline testing of modules interfacing with external services is always tricky. Richard Elberger shares his adventures in mocking the external components of Net::Gnats.

by Yanick Champoux (YANICK)

Yanick compares a few of the modules available to test Dancer/Dancer2 applications.

by Jeffrey Kegler (JKEGL)

Jeffrey Kegler talks about Marpa, and how it can deals with ambiguous grammar definitions.

by Sinan Unur (NANIS)

Sinan Unur released App::multiswitch last week-end, as part of CPAN Day. Later on, he realized he might have reinvented a wheel already included in File::Which's trunk. Oops.

by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK)

Toby Inkster points out that Type::Tiny types are objects by themselves, and can be used outside of attribute definitions for, e.g., validate any value you might care for.

by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK)

So you have a generic type, and one attribute is kinda of that type, but also could be coerced from a value in a special, snowflaky unique way? Toby Inkster shows you how Type::Tiny deals with those one-off special cases.

by Christian Hansen (CHANSEN)

Christian Hansen takes a moment (haw, haw, ... okay, I'm sorry) to discuss the round-trip parsing speed of this new time module. And it's pretty darn fast.

by Reini Urban (RURBAN)

A simple hash won't do? Don't worry: Reini Urban has *perfect* hashes for you.

by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK)

Toby Inkster

by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK)

Toby Inkster demonstrates how to have a peek on the validation of any defined type is done.

by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK)

For types that are arrays of specific sizes, Type::Tiny has the concept of 'Tuples'. Toby Inkster shows how to use them.

by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK)

Type::Tiny, this small fountain of marvels, refines the definition of hash into two types: maps and dictionaries. Toby Inkster shows here when and how they apply.

Splitting a string into pieces with a max length but without breaking up words. Manually and using Text::Wrap. (article + screencast)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

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