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by brian d foy (BDFOY)

brian posted his thoughts on perl and recruitment, in response to Dave's post last week. Hard to distil down to a pithy one-liner, but here's one good soundbite: "Pay doesn't matter if you suck".

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

ZipRecruiter is a job board startup based in California, and they're looking for Perl developers. A few people you might have heard of already work / contract there, and they allow remote work.

by Pinkhas Nisanov (PINKHASN)

Pinkhas introduces his new module Regexp::SAR, based on his own regexp engine, which lets him trigger events for multiple pattern matches. Written in C/XS.

by Dave Rolsky (DROLSKY)

Dave's released a trial version of Params::Validate, which allows validation callbacks to die in order to provide a custom error message or exception object. If you use it, he'd like you to test this version and report any problems please.

by Yanick Champoux (YANICK)

Yanick goes to town about his new craziness, Pod::Knit, which you can get from github for now. It involves pod, XML, sausages, knitting and dancing kittens. I made one of those up.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)'s regular lists: Great modules released last week; MetaCPAN weekly report; StackOverflow Perl report.

by brian d foy (BDFOY)

The Perl Foundation has announced the recipients for the 15th year of the White Camel Awards: Amalia Pomian for Perl community, VM Brasseur for Perl user groups, and Neil Bowers for Perl advocacy. Congratulations to Amalia and VM!

by Olaf Alders (OALDERS)

The MetaCPAN project is taking on two interns, Rose Ames and Andreea Pirvulescu, as part of the GNOME outreach program for women.

by JT Smith (RIZEN)

Michael McClennen gave a talk at MadMongers last week, about implementing web data services in Perl.

by Ron Savage (RSAVAGE)

Ron has released new versions of his GraphViz2::Marpa and GraphViz2::Marpa::PathUtils modules. Graphviz is the most widely used toolkit for displaying directed graphs, and Marpa::R2 is a modern parsing toolkit for Perl.

by brian d foy (BDFOY)

brian would like to see the love child of Travis and CPAN Testers: getting CPAN Testers results when you push a new version of your distribution to github.

Alex is trying to create an Excel-style spreadsheet in Perl/Tk, and wonders if anyone else has tried such a thing.

by Sinan Unur (NANIS)

Sinan presents more portability bugs he's found in Perl modules, and promises he'll submit patches.

by Timm Murray (TMURRAY)

Setting up a hackerspace webcam using a RaspberryPi and Perl.

by David Oswarld (DAVIDO)

YAPC::NA 2015 is in Salt Lake City, and the call for papers is now open. Your deadline is January 15th.

by brian d foy (BDFOY)

brian's notes from the hack day before Saint Perl. Note: brian's post isn't in Russian, but that other page is.

by Enkidu

This is a great blog post. Enkidu shares his enthusiasm for learning about Mojolicious from Glen Hinkle's Mojocasts. What in the Perl world makes you happy? Blog about it!

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

In addition to all his advent posts, Sawyer announced a new release of Dancer 2. I'm starting to suspect that Sawyer is the name of a collective in Amsterdam.

by David Oswarld (DAVIDO)

David and INGY have been wrapping up their work on the Inline grant. Inline::CPP support is now working well across varied platforms, Module::Build based distributions are now supported, and a lot of testing/debugging has taken place.

by Dave Mitchell

Dave Mitchell's monthly report for his work on the Perl 5 core, funded by a grant. The main item of note was his awesome work on a benchmarking tool.

A range of topics, and not just from Mark: MetaCPAN::Client, Code::TidyAll, Test::Requires, Data::ICal::DateTime, Capture::Tiny, Struct::Dumb, App::ack.

Quoting on Steroids, Three strange loops, MoarVM Internals for the Brave (and Curious), Snow white and the seven conditionals, Helping Santa with Roles, Community smoke testing. Bioinformatics and the joy of Perl 6,

Seven more articles on the Catalyst web framework: Porting Reddit's URL Structure to Catalyst Using Chaining, Instant database admin tool with RapidApp and rdbic.pl, The Plack::App::RapidApp::rDbic interface to RapidApp, Redispatching to a public path, Another Take on redispatching, Application-wide access to the context ($c) for the impatient, The Future of Catalyst, or the Fifty Year Framework.

Seven more articles from Sawyer on the Dancer web framework: Outreach Program for Women (OPW) and Dancer, Command line dancing, Hidden feature: Auto Pages, The method of the setup method, Authentication for the masses, Meddling with Middlewares, Middlewared Dancer: our usage of middlewares.

by Matt S. Trout (MSTROUT)

Five more mini reviews from Matt Trout: Distribution building, Object orientation, SOAP, Exporting, Email.

Seven more of Perlancar's modules released in 2014: App::shcompgen, Proc::Find, File::Unsaved, App::plstrace, Test::WithDB, String::Wildcard::Bash.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

A collection of Perl Maven articles about PSGI, the interface for writing modern web applications in Perl.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Do you know how to give a default value to a scalar variable? What about a hash?