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by Ron Savage (RSAVAGE)

.. on the web site of Ron Savage.

by Alexis Sukrieh (SUKRIA)

Not exactly Perl specific, but Alexis Sukrieh has some good point for the interviewers. Of course if you are looking to be employed by a good firm, you might also want to read this to see the reasoning behind some of the interview questions and processes. For example: Who the hell needs to be able to program at a whiteboard?

Recently there was a thread on the p5p mailing list discussing the topic. I'd suggest reading the whole thread, but if you don't have time, this might explain how p5p, the Perl 5 Porters currently work. IMHO it would be great to have a centralized place where people who actively work on perl core could list their TODO items, break them down into smaller steps, and let others, who might have time, to join in implementing specific steps needed to accomplish that TODO item. A roadmap of many individual roads. Maybe an enhanced (I am not sure in what way though) version of the current TODO list. Maybe including the names of the people who consider each item as their personal goal with links to RT tickets and branches where the work already happens.

by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK)

Vytas Dauksa rants about certain ways of parameter unpacking. He hates code that uses 'shift' there. Why not use 'pop' too then he argues. The reply is not waiting long. Toby Inkster mentions he would use pop if it was necessary.

by Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Joel Berger is extracting 'Ooooh's and 'Aaaah's from onlookers by showing off some of the capabilities of Mojolicious: WebSocket, UserAgent, eval, testing.

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

The, already traditional monthly round-up of David Farrell listing a number of new CPAN modules.

A skeleton of an article explaining CPAN to users, contributors, and (would be) module authors.

by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK)

The monthly collection of Object Oriented news by Toby Inkster.

by Peter Rabbitson (RIBASUSHI)

This is that time of the year again when Peter Rabbitson (Ribasushi) is getting ready for a new release of DBIx::Class and he wants to be sure it will work for you! So if you use DBIx::Class in an application, and especially if you have good test suite, then this is a very good time to test it with the upcoming release candidate.

Do you know how to search for modules with 'Middleware' in their name? How to find all the modules that are version 0.01 ? Maybe combine the two?

by David Cantrell (DCANTRELL)

David Cantrell implements in 50 lines of clean(!) perl what the other application does in 1,300 lines of PHP. True, he uses a few CPAN modules, but hey, loading them also adds to the line count!

The Perl Foundation is waiting for your grant proposals till 14th September.

by brian d foy (BDFOY)

As I understand from other sources, the 'whitespaces' meant by brian d foy in his talk are the places where the Perl community has some kind of a hole to be filled. For example a module implementing the API of a public service. Though I am not sure. I wish I also heard the talk, not just seen the slides.

The Strawberry Perl on Windows project requires a build server. It had one sponsored in the past 12 months by Auditsquare, but for the coming year kmx, the project maintainer has published a call to support Strawberry Perl. Mark Keating quickly jumped on the call and paid for the server for the next year.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

What if you a bunch of regexes and you would like to filter the lines of a file that match all of there regexes? (article + screencast.)

by Upasana Shukla (SWEETKID)

Upasana Shukla went to her first YAPC in Bulgaria. She managed to list the names of a lot of people. I wonder what would have happened if she had better memory?

by Kerstin Puschke

Xing was at YAPC EU in Bulgaria Kerstin Puschke reports.

by John Scoles (BYTEROCK)

Report written by byterock.

by John Scoles (BYTEROCK)

Report written by byterock.

by Laurent Dami (DAMI)

Laurent Dami was skeptical about the Swiss Perl Workshop.

Tobi Oetiker even took a picture to proove it was fun!

Pattawan Kaewduangdee went to Tokyo in the Send-A-Newbie program. Here is what she saw.

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

It's almost a year from now, but if you are interested, mark it in your calendar now! (Remember, it is in Granada, Spain. Even if you don't care about Perl, it's a good excuse.)