YAPC::EU is featuring 3 courses:
- Web Application Development using Perl, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript;
- Practical Career Development for Perl Programmers;
- Database Development with Perl and DBIx::Class;
Early bird registration ends on 1 June.

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by Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Joel gives us a quick tour of six modules that he's released recently. Five are Mojo-related, plus Webservice::Shipment which provides a standard interface for getting shipping updates from carriers (currently UPS and USPS).

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

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

by Aristotle Pagaltzis (ARISTOTLE)

Aristotle has released Plack::Middleware::SignedCookies to CPAN. It is Plack middleware that "signs outgoing cookies on the server with a HMAC digest and verifies the digest on incoming cookies. If a cookie doesn’t pass the signature test, it is dropped on the floor and your application never gets to see it".

by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (MIYAGAWA)

Miyagawa wrote up a discussion from the plack IRC channel on the difference between two popular Plack servers: Starman and Starlet.

by Charlie Gonzalez (ITCHARLIE)

Charlie shares his experiences with us, both helping organize and participate in the recent New York hackathon. As a result I now know what an alley-oop is.

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

David describes what he did at the New York Hackathon: writing a Perl 5 script to submit a whole heap of Perl 6 tickets.

by E. Choroba (CHOROBA)

Choroba describes his efforts to try and resolve some CPAN Testers failures for AnyEvent::ForkManager. Ultimately he was unsuccessful — maybe you can take a look and help him out?

by Mark Keating

Mark continues his series about companies using Perl, this time with MongoDB.

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

Following the demise of Mojoconf, David and Richard Elberger are organising a mini conference in New York on Saturday 6th June. Current plans include training, a hackathon, and lightning talks. Plus swag!

by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS)

Dave's giving a one-day introductory course on DBIx::Class at YAPC::EU this year.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Gabor's continuing his experimentation with an alternative interface for searching CPAN. He's added an interface that lets you find all distributions that contain a given filename.

by John Scoles (BYTEROCK)

Byterock describes his experience adding an async call into an existing website. Tests in development worked fine, but releasing it on production quickly resulted in hundreds of zombie processes...

by Mark Dominus (MJD)

Mark lists some of his unfinished projects. He's hoping some of us might be interested in working on these, either with Mark or not.

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

Ovid continues his series about the game, code-named Veure, that he's developing.

by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN)

Jonathan covers what he did in the first week of May (he's catching up after OSDC.no): reducing the memory used by hashes, improving Rakudo's startup time on MoarVM, and fixing various bugs.

by Timo Paulssen

A summary of many Perl 6 things going on at various events.

by Ricardo Signes (RJBS)

Rik's puttering with the Perl 6 REPL.

by Dave Mitchell

There's probably not much in this, relatively short, list that most readers will understand, but I think it's important we all acknowledge Dave's work. This is a key part of the grind that keeps Perl 5 moving forward.

by Tony Cook (TONYC)

Tony's latest report on his work on Perl 5.

The first stable release of the Rust programming language was announced this week. "Rust combines low-level control over performance with high-level convenience and safety guarantees. Better yet, it achieves these goals without requiring a garbage collector or runtime, making it possible to use Rust libraries as a 'drop-in replacement' for C". Rust's equivalent of CPAN is crate.io, which currently has 2,092 crates.

A high-level introduction to "the internet of things": what it is, what tech is involved, and the areas affected.

A new community column, doc dish, dedicated to documentation. The first article is RTFM? How to write a manual worth reading. Scroll down and you'll probably recognise someone.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)