by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

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

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

David's monthly column on new CPAN distributions. July's module of the month was PMORCH's Class::Storage. Also of note for me was Assert::Conditional, from TOMC, which gives you a wide selection of functions for doing C-style assertions.

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

A new version of Dancer 2, which both faster and more secure, according to Ol' Pottymouth himself.

by Alexey Melezhik (MELEZHIK)

Alexey has written a tool called swat, which is used to run smoke tests against web applications. It's on github.

by Jan Henning Thorsen (JHTHORSEN)

Jan wrote a piece on why Mojolicious is a good choice for new web projects in general, and a RESTful API in particular, in response to a question on Perl Monks.

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

David shows how you can look for machines on the local network using ICMP.

by Buddy Burden (BAREFOOT)

Buddy talks through the iterations of a tool he's working on for processing text files related to the Heroscape game.

by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY)

Dave's thoughts on running things on remote machines using Net::OpenSSH; read the comments too.

by Will Braswell (WBRASWELL)

The first full release of RPerl was announced by Will. RPerl is a compiler which can make your code run a lot faster, as long as you avoid certain language features. Read more about it on the RPerl home page.

by Flávio Glock (FGLOCK)

Flávio has started work on a backend for Perlito that will generate Java from Perl 5. Early days work in progress.

by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN)

Jonathan's write-up of work done in late June and early July: adding support for multi-dimensional arrays in MoarVM, changes to the regex engine, and a bunch of bug fixes.

by Timo Paulssen

A collection of pointers to many things going on in the Perl 6 world in the week to 6th July.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

We're half-way through the year, but that mean's there's still half a year left, or 6 potential assignments if you join the Pull Request Challenge before the end of July.

by E. Choroba (CHOROBA)

E Choroba was assigned File::LibMagic for July, and decided to address the CPAN Testers fails.

by Andrew Solomon (ILLY)

Andrew acknowledges that certification for programmers can split a crowd, but that some managers like to see it. Geekuni has introduced certification for its Perl and web development courses.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

by Yanick Champoux (YANICK)

Yanick continues his series on Bread::Board, showing how you can "manually create services and set them in a hierarchy of containers so that their inter-dependencies can be resolved by the system".

by Christian Hansen (CHANSEN)

Christian shows how you can use Time::Moment to format to format time deltas in human readable form, such as 'an hour ago', or 'a day ago'.

by Mark Keating

The London Perl Workshop (LPW) is the premier UK Perl event. This year it's on the 12th December, and has a theme of "A Perl Christmas". It's not to soon to submit a talk proposal. Yet again, Mark Keating is organising LPW.

Someone's report for their Perl grant — the name wasn't given. Either TonyC or DaveM.

Another Perl 5 grant report from either Tony or Dave :-)

by Theo van Hoesel (VANHOESEL)

An update from Theo on his Act work, and his time at YAPC::NA.

A unix pipe challenge: process a collection of text files using standard unix tools in a pipeline.