by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

All the Perl Maven articles related to Perl Dancer, now available bundled in one e-book in MOBI format for Kindle.

It's great to see better Perl 5 support in mainstream IDEs!

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

It is really good that we have such a summary. It allows people to peek into the development of Perl 5, without getting caught in the fire.

by Reini Urban (RURBAN)

Fascinating interview with some p5p bashing as expected from Reini, and with lots of interesting bits about p2, perl 11, perlcc, B::C, and the C backend of the Perl compiler.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

In the last couple of months the Perl Maven site became quite slow. Running the profiler quickly pointed at the overuse of YAML. The easy solution was to replace it with YAML::XS.

by Timm Murray (TMURRAY)

by Andrew Solomon (ILLY)

Adzuna (founded 2011) is a crowd-funded job search engine operating in 11 countries with its headquarters in London, UK. George Karpodinis is lead developer at Adzuna.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

by Barbie (BARBIE)

The CPAN Testers are celebrating again.

by Alexey Melezhik (MELEZHIK)

SWAT is a Web Test Automation Framework. It seems you need to create the routes of the server as directories and files on your local system, and put in the files the expected response and then just run swat. Interesting concept.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Screencast, the first in a series about Test Automation using Perl.

by Flávio Glock (FGLOCK)

Flavio had a number of crazy projects. This is another one. Compiling Perl 5 code to Java? That's the first step on a slippery slope. We might end up writing Perl 5 apps for Android... and people will want to learn Perl. /me shivers

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

Finally there is a clear separation between parameters arriving in different manners: As part of the route, part of the request (GET), part of the body (POST). Oh and you can provide your own skeleton now. Awesome!

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

A rant by Ovid on how some Perl programmers cannot communicate properly. Not even when it is about finding a new job. Though it is unclear if he refers to some of the people in the active Perl community or other people who 'just' use Perl.

by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN)

On the plate: Fixing some Unicode issues for Christmas; Fixing some issues with phasers; Some regex engine work; and few other bits.

by Carl Mäsak

It's unclear to me what a quasi block is, but it seems it can somehow hold its breath waiting for air to be pumped in later on in the life of the program. My head is spinning.

by Aaron Baugher

How to make the Internet fast again using Perl 6. The beginning of a new era. The beginning of a new Gopher Server.

by Kaare Rasmussen (KAARE)

Kaare is concerned by the lack of modules for Perl 6 and the lack of toolchain. Should he be? Or is the green field actually an opportunity for many people to show what new ideas they have and how well they can craft nice things?

by David Golden (DAGOLDEN)

MongoDB is one of the only next-gen databases to support Perl in-house. By providing feedback on how you use MongoDB you will help demonstrate the value this work provides. (I have filled the survey; ++ -ed the module; filed several JIRA tickets; Blogged about using MongoDB with Perl. The first two only take 1-2 minutes. The rest will need more involvement. ~szabgab)

by David Golden (DAGOLDEN)

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

An almost comprehensive guide to all the file that can appear in a CPAN distribution.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

Great modules released last week;
MetaCPAN weekly report;
StackOverflow Perl report.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Started to publish a bunch of exercises for beginners. Some of the exercises already have solutions in a number of programming languages.