by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

What if you'd like to run a program frequently, but would also like to make sure the previous instance finished before launching a new one. One solution offered by David is to use a lockfile. But what if the process gets stuck?

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

DateTime is huge, but as with most of other things we only use 10-20% of its capabilities. This article covers the most important aspects of the DateTime module.

by Rocky Bernstein (ROCKY)

To help figure out exactly where a program is stopped. E.g. in an expression like this: '$z = $x/$y + $c/$d;' to figure out which division threw the exception of 'illegal division by zero.'

A looong article. The code is also on CPAN.

by Alexey Melezhik (MELEZHIK)

Outthentic is a language to validate arbitrary plain text. Very often a short form 'DSL' is used for this term.

by Kieren Diment (ZARQUON)

Using PPIx::Refactor to rewrite Perl code.

by Sinan Unur (NANIS)

Office of the Unites States Trade Representative released the full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement in 239 individual PDF documents.

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

The monthly roundup bringing you a selected collection of new modules on CPAN.

There are now 33 entries in the Programming Exercises.

by Theo van Hoesel (VANHOESEL)

Improving the web application that handles the Perl conferences and workshop. Pondering on which web framework to use. Which web frameworks are RFC compliant?

by Makoto Nozaki

The dead line to submit your grant request to The Perl Foundation is 16th November.

by Dave Mitchell

The monthly report of Dave Mitchell.

by Mark Dominus (MJD)

A 35 min presentation by MJD together with the slides explaining what are hash tables (dictionaries for Python programmers), how they really work, and why do we have them.

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

Now already regular weekly report on the development of Perl 5. Perl 5.22.1-RC1 is now available.

RT - The Request Tracker that is also used for tracking bugs in CPAN modules and in core Perl.

by Yuki Kimoto (KIMOTO)

by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS)

What can you expect from the training courses? Details of the 'Object Oriented Programming with Perl and Moose' and the 'Database Programming with Perl and DBIx::Class' courses.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

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