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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

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by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

David's monthly round-up of new modules on CPAN. No module of the month this month, so I guess we all need to try harder in December.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

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

by Yuki Kimoto (KIMOTO)

Kimoto-san has updated his Validator::Custom module, and gives a taster of some of the changes.

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

6 bugs were reported, 11 bugs were resolved, the release of Perl 5.22.1 was postponed, and a load of discussion on regex vs regexp (I prefer the former, as most seem to, but ref(qr//) returns Regexp, so we're stuck with both).

by Mark Fowler (MARKF)

Quick links to the last week's articles, by module: Text::Hogan, Reply, Web::Query, Module::CPANFile, Smart::Comments, Config::Station, JSON::Path.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

A tutorial on using array references in Perl 5.

by Sinan Unur (NANIS)

Sinan noticed that Perl 6's handling of newline characters, which has been mentioned in various blogs recently, can cause problems on Windows. This follows on from an earlier post where he hit the issue.

by Timo Paulssen

The usual weekly round-up of Perl 6 news, blog posts, and links to the first week's articles in the Perl 6 advent calendar.

Quick links to the Perl 6 topics covered in the last week: unicode, grammars, grey wolf optimiser, pod, first impressions, given/when, traits.

by Carl Mäsak

An update from Carl on his 007 project, a little language that he's been working on to help think and learn about how to do macros.

by Justin Simoni (JJSIMONI)

Dada Mail is an email list manager written in Perl. Justin announced the release of version 9.

by Peter Thoeny

Twiki is a (or the?) Structured Wiki written in Perl. It is actually so much more than a Wiki.

Robin uses an infra red webcam and a perl script to monitor the level of heating oil in a large tank.

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

David shows how he uses Dist::Zilla to ensure that certain files from his CPAN distributions appear in the github repo, even though they're generated by Dist::Zilla, and thus usually won't be found in repos.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

A short tuturial on creating a counter with the Dancer web framework.

by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS)

Dave gave a tutorial, a talk, and a lightning talk at the London Perl Workshop on Saturday. He's put the slides for all three online.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

My notes on LPW this year, and also encouraging people who've never spoken at a Perl event to consider giving a talk next year.

One way to make serious progress on a personal project is to block out a weekend, prepare appropriately beforehand, then use the weekend (or however long) to get some focus.

by Alvaro Videla

A good primer on the various concepts in and around distributed systems, with links to further reading on the various topics.

by Michael Kropat

A handy set of diagrams to help you understand the different HTTP status codes, and which ones to use when.