by Doug Bell (PREACTION)

Douglas introduces his new module, List::Slice, which provide head and tail functions for operating on lists.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

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

by E. Choroba (CHOROBA)

This month Mr E was looking into a tainting issue. He didn't quite get to the bottom of it, but describes what he did learn. Can you help him, so he gets to do another PR on his assigned dist?

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

A long time ago (well, last week), in a mailing list far, far away, a plucky band of volunteers fight against entropy for the good of perlkind.

The fourth edition of Modern Perl is now available in print from the Pragmatic Bookshelf, and also as a free ebook.

by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS)

Dave is going to be doing four short courses in London one week next year, from Monday 8th February to Friday 12th February. Topics are: OO with Moose, DBIx::Class, testing, and web programming.

by Timo Paulssen

The main news this week was the official release of Perl 6 beta. Christmas is getting closer!

by Carl Mäsak

Some rumination about macros. I think.

by Jan Henning Thorsen (JHTHORSEN)

Jan talks us through his personal toolkit for building and deploying web applications, at the center of which is Mojolicious.

by Josh Lavin

A write up of the talk that Josh gave at the Perl Dancer conference recently.

by Alexis Sukrieh (SUKRIA)

The Dancer core team are working on a book, and they're using Kickstarter to help fund that effort. 10 euros will get you an electronic version of the book, and 40 euros will get you a print copy of the book.

by Josh Lavin

Josh shares his highlights from the Perl Dancer conference. He also blogged about the training days at the conference.

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.

by Chad Granum (EXODIST)

The Test-Stream distribution is the successor to Test-Simple, the distribution that contains Test::Builder, Test::More, and more. There has been a lot of discussion, experiment, and even a few heated words over the last year. But now Chad says it's moving out of the experimental phase, and explains what he means by that.

by Chad Granum (EXODIST)

Chad talks through some of the practicalities of working with Test::Stream.

by Will Braswell (WBRASWELL)

Will Braswell has delivered the first report on working being done to improve the user documentation for RPerl.

A discussion of performance issues when creating image thumbnails, which led to the creation of Image::Scale.

by brian d foy (BDFOY)

brian draws a line between the rise of Perl 5, the early days of the web, and the open source movement.

by Paul Graham

Simple but good advice from the founder of Y-Combinator: when writing (he's talking mainly about blogs, but I think this applies to documentation and elsewhere), you should write like you talk.

What makes a day feel productive for you? In this research the authors found that programmers' beliefs about what makes a day productive don't always match the reality of productive days.

A short tutorial on how git bisect can help you track down bugs introduced at some unknown point in the (hopefully recent) past.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Another entry in the series of counter examples.

There are now 24 beginner level entries in the Programming Exercises. In case you know someone who wants to learn Perl, these can be useful.

November 7, 2015, Barcelona, Spain - less than a week from now!