As usual, without any announcement outside of the Perl 5 Porters mailing list, the newest stable version of Perl has been released.

by kmx (KMX)

Soon after the official release by the Perl 5 Porters, kmx has released Strawberry Perl for Windows which core Perl + a bunch of interesting modules.

Have you ever implemented a test for a bug just to find out the bug won't be fixed in the current release? What do you do with the failing test then?

Explaining diag(), note() and explain() that come with Test::More

by brian d foy (BDFOY)

The Perl Power Tools that is also known as the Unix Reconstruction Project has not been maintained for quite some time. Now brian d foy takes it into his hands.

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

David Farrell uses HTTP::Tiny and WWW::curlmyip to fetch the IP address as seen by the curlmyip.com site and then uses Geo::IP to map it to a city.

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

Ovid, who knows quite a bit about testing and Agile software development has just started to like BDD and Cucumber. He shows what is a good and a bad 'story' and how the good 'story' can be easily expressed in Test::Cukes, the Perl implementation of Cucumber.

The various bits and pieces Net-A-Porter is using to standardize their Perl code. A pragma module, a set of Perl::Critic policies etc.

by Andy Lester (PETDANCE)

A pitfall in how Template::Toolkit works.

by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK)

A set of handy methods for working with classes and objects in Perl created by Toby Inkster. These are weird methods, all starting with a $-sign such as $class->$_new(%args) and $object->$_clone().

by John Napiorkowski (JJNAPIORK)

For the new release John Napiorkowski has moved the issues from Questhub to Github. You can also get an explanation why is this release called after a chicken?

by Peter Rabbitson (RIBASUSHI)

Are you a module authors? MetaCPAN can now drive visitors directly to the IRC channel where you provide support. Ribasushi explains what do you need to add to your META files in order to enable this feature.

Some of the MetaCPAN servers have moved.

by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS)

Every day Dave Cross encounters someone who want to solve some problem without installing any module from CPAN. Here he tries to explain why is that a broken idea. IMHO the problem is that many people 'in the Perl community' (see elsewhere) are busy showing why the others are wrong, instead of trying to understand the real reasons behind not wanting to deal with third-party modules. See also the Reddit discussion.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

Neil Bowers tries to answer the above question, with drawings of layered onions and radiating suns, but I think there is another question: Why does it matter?

by Philippe Bruhat (BOOK)

The next edition of the French Perl Hackathon will be held in Lyon, from November 27 to November 30, 2014. The focus of this Hackathon is Act, the web application running most of the YAPCs and Perl Workshops.

by Philippe Bruhat (BOOK)

Some of the people who would like to attend the Act Hackathon in Lyon will need help in financing their trip. This is your chance to help.

This is a new project by yours truly (szabgab), to statically analyze source code, to display in interesting ways, to collect 'common practices', to build an index of code expressions etc. It is at a very early stage, but if you are interested, you can follow the blog.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

Installing Geo::IP always involved several failed attempts for me, but that should not be the case any more. This article describes the steps to install Geo::IP. It also provides the rules you can add to your .travis.yml if your GitHub repository depends on Geo::IP.

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

by Stefan Hornburg (HORNBURG)