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Have you wondered how do those Perl Maven Pro screencasts look like, but wasn't sure about the money part? Now you can try it for free for one month. But don't wait too much, because this offer is only valid till the end of the week.

by Jeffrey Thalhammer (THALJEF)

Jeffrey Thalhammer (THALJEF) announced that perlcritic.com (a web interface to his popular Perl::Critic module) has been moved to new hardware and completely rewritten (source in github).

by Brian Medley (BPMEDLEY)

Brian Medley (BPMEDLEY) describes how he uses Minion as a job queue for sending email.

by Sinan Unur (NANIS)

Sinan Unur (NANIS) shows how to use the Windows Speech API to convert text to speech.

Getting statistics about CPAN from MetaCPAN.

For serving static files such as images, CSS files, JavaScript, or the robots.txt, Plack has an easy solution using the 'Static' middleware.

Vytas Dauksa (VYTAS) describes how he thinks Perl could be made more palatable for use in education. It can be summarised as 'enable all the Modern Perl stuff, break backwards compatibility to drop some of the legacy features, and bundle the best of CPAN'.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) has started curating a list of Perl-based web sites for which the source is available.

by Sinan Unur (NANIS)

Sinan Unur (NANIS) decided to try and compile Rakudo Perl with Visual Studio 2013, which Microsoft made freely available.

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

David Farrell (SILLYMOOS) suggests that a good way to get started with Perl 6 is by writing one-liners.

by Sinan Unur (NANIS)

Sinan Unur (NANIS) demonstrates why we all need to know how to use quotemeta.

by Barbie (BARBIE)

Barbie (BARBIE) posted his monthly round-up of news related to CPAN Testers.

by Dan Wright (DWRIGHT)

Dan Wright describes the budgeting process of The Perl Foundation.

Peter Baranyi has released the source for mailnesia, a disposable email service.

by Ricardo Signes (RJBS)

Rik Signes (RJBS) has released a trial version of Email::MIME::Kit v3, which sorts out encodings, but might temporarily make your life worse, if you were (possibly unknowingly) relying on the previous brokenness.

by JT Smith (RIZEN)

JT Smith (RIZEN) has released Imager::Draw::Hexagon. Given the name, you might be surprised to discover that it's for drawing hexagons using Imager.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

Neil Bowers (NEILB) created a simple interface to todoist.com, an online todolist service. He also finds it weird writing about himself in the third person.

by Taiki Kawakami (MOZNION)

Taiki Kawakami (MOZNION) has released the first non-developer version of Perl::Lint, which was funded by a previous grant.

by David Oswarld (DAVIDO)

David Oswald (DAVIDO and INGY posted their 5th update on the Inline grant, which mainly covered topics related to module builders.

This is your last chance to comment on INGY and David's latest grant proposal. Comments have to be submitted by November 25th.

TPF have announced the location of YAPC::NA 2015. Registrations are already being accepted online: YAPC::NA 2015 registration.

by David Oswarld (DAVIDO)

David Oswald (DAVIDO introduces the team who will be organising YAPC::NA 2015.

The videos from the recent LPW are now available online. Start off with I am developer, which will only take you 5 minutes.

by Mark Keating

Mark Keating (oh yeah, no PAUSE id, because he still hasn't released any damn code), posted his thoughts and feelings about the London Perl Workshop 2014. TL;DR: it was awesome, everyone was awesome.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

The ten most rated Perl questions on stackoverflow last week.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

Niceperl's list of highly-rated modules that saw a release in the last week.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

Newly favourited and most favourited distributions on MetaCPAN.

Using strftime() in the POSIX module to generate a simple timestamp, for example to use in a logfile.

Playing with the all function from List::MoreUtils.

by Jeffrey Kegler (JKEGL)

Jeffrey Kegler (JKEGL) compares top-down and bottom-up parsing, and explains why the latter has re-emerged as the approach of choice.

Martin Fowler encourages us to plan for a relatively short lifetime for the code we're designing and writing today.