by Graham Ollis (PLICEASE)

Graham describes changes with Alien::Base and plans for the future, now it's being looked after by a team, who've taken over from Joel Burger.

by Alex Balhatchet (KAORU)

Nestoria's module of the month for April is Dumbbench, a replacement for Benchmark, written by Steffen Müller.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

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

by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (MIYAGAWA)

Miyagawa describes his current thinking for cpanm 2.0. It was interesting seeing him work at the QAH: incredibly focussed and clearly very productive. I felt like I was attending a yakathon in comparison.

by David Cantrell (DCANTRELL)

You're probably familiar with David's CPANdeps service, but now David has added a service which can show all of a distribution's downstream depenendencies in a tree form. You might think that only 3 other dists are using your dist, but this will show you all the dists relying on yours.

by Philippe Bruhat (BOOK)

BOOK is working on a module that will be like Module::CoreList, but for Git.

by Tina Müller (TINITA)

Tina organised the hackathon, and did a great job at it. This is her post-event write-up.

Some of the attendees have blogged about their time at the QAH: Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chad Granum, David Golden, Herbert Breunung, Ingy, Neil Bowers, Olaf Alders, Rik Signes, Steffen Schwigon, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Tina Müller.

You're probably getting a bit tired of hearing about the sponsors of the QAH, but it wouldn't be possible without their support. Thank you to them all.

by Andrew Shitov (ANDY)

Andrew has created a catalogue of all Perl books, with their covers. He's looking for any titles he's missed, particularly non-English ones.

by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX)

Flavio presents his wrapperl script, which is on github. It provides a mechanism for localising scripts to multiple different environments.

by Matt S. Trout (MSTROUT)

Matt describes the approach they came up with for testing code that opens a pipe to sendmail. These kind of war stories are great, showing the sort of thorny problems that come up in real-life testing, and the sort of thinking need to deal with them.

by JT Smith (RIZEN)

A video of a talk about test-driven development.

by John Napiorkowski (JJNAPIORK)

John posted a catalyst poll for members of the Catalyst community, and also announced a new development release.

by Tudor Constantin (TCONST)

Tudor enthuses about the Pull Request Challenge. I've always liked Tudor.

The Perl Foundation has announced that DreamHost has signed up as a sponsor of YAPC::NA 2015.

by Moritz Lenz (MORITZ)

Moritz describes how writing documentation, and thinking about your users as you do so, can improve your code. Aka documentation-driven development.

by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN)

Jonathan's been working on Normal Form Graphemes for Unicode support, the fatal pragma, and some other things besides.

Sourcegraph has created "a search engine and code browser to help developers find better code and build software faster".

by Liz Keogh

How mature is your agile development team?

by Glen Sanford

A discussion of code reviews, and why they're important: "I believe that the single most important thing a team can do collectively to improve its throughput is to make code review a (or better yet, the) top priority for all team members". We need to do more code reviews of CPAN code, particularly of the modules we all depend upon.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

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