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by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

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

by Ricardo Signes (RJBS)

Rik has released a module (RTF::VimColor) and associated script (synrtf which will take some code and produce an RTF file which has syntax highlighting on the code.

by Yanick Champoux (YANICK)

Yanick presents File::Serialize which will (de)serialise YAML, JSON and TOML, using the 'right' module behind the scenes, so you don't have to remember which is the right module to use these days.

by Lee Johnson (LEEJO)

Lee describes a change that he's made to CGI which simplifies the code and will mean CGI now gets correct test coverage results. It's currently a developer release, so please test it if you use CGI.

by Aristotle Pagaltzis (ARISTOTLE)

Aristotle presents a small perl script which illustrates a way that the unwary, and those new to Perl, can be surprised when playing around with subroutine arguments.

Ivan presents an easy-to-install monitoring system he's created called curry, which is built on Docker and Dancer.

by Kieren Diment (ZARQUON)

You often read about the need to call make_immutable on your Moose classes, but do you know what the impact can be if you don't? kd benchmarked one of his webs after before and after, and found that adding make_immutable made it 5 times faster.

by E. Choroba (CHOROBA)

For his February assignment, E decided to look into his dist's CPAN Testers failures. He describes his approach and how it led in his pull request. The comments on his post point out some other tools that can help this sort of investigation.

by Philippe Bruhat (BOOK)

You may think of him as "BooK", or "the guy in the pink shirt". Philippe has added some new pages onto cpan.io which show leaderboards for all years, such as this one.

by Yanick Champoux (YANICK)

Yanick introduces the inversion of control concept, and presents how you can do it with Bread::Board. Obviously Canada has multiple definitions for the word 'gentle'.

by Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt (FREW)

Frew shows how his thoughts on handling configuration has evolved via various technologies, to his latest approach.

by David Bradford (DBRADFORD)

David ask what sources of tech news do the rest of you (us) follow, which he might find of interest. He means aside from Perl Weekly, of course.

by Billy Vierra (BVIERRA)

Billy has created a Chrome extension that will automatically redirect you from search.cpan.org to MetaCPAN.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

There are several hundred people taking part in the pull request challenge who want to fix your bugs. All you need to do is put your distribution on github, and make sure the repo is listed in the metadata.

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

Curtis shows how Perl 6's gradual typing can prevent certain types of bugs in your code. He throws some other Perl 6 titbits in as well.

by Moritz Lenz (MORITZ)

Moritz presents the IRC bot camelia, which will run Perl 6 code snippets seen in the #perl6 IRC channel, and give feedback on them. I have to admit that my first thought was wondering what naughtiness might be possible, but it's pretty cool!

by David Golden (DAGOLDEN)

David lays out his current thinking on Perl 6. TL;DR: likes some bits, but thinks it seems large / complex and under-documented at the moment.

by Timo Paulssen

The weekly Perl 6 update: performance improvements; the 'long' type, and stricter laxness, among other things.

by Makoto Nozaki

Nozaki-san has proposed a change to TPF rules for grants, aimed at defining a deadline for all grant applications, beyond which projects would be deemed to have failed. If you have an opinion, please add a comment.

by Karen Pauley

Karen posted Dave Mitchell's latest report for his TPF grant to support work on the Perl 5 core.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Some explanation about the CPAN Testers and about cpXXXan.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Files generated by the Perl toolchain, by the editor, an even by the operating system should usually be excluded from version control system. Here is a list of what should be excluded and how to to that.

by Dan Wright (DWRIGHT)

Dan described all the different ways you can keep up-to-date on news related to YAPC::NA.