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 selection of new modules released to CPAN in February. I don't have a use for it, but I love the name of Regexp::Parsertron.

by Kieren Diment (ZARQUON)

Kieren describes how testing web applications got much easier for him when he discovered LWP::Protocol::PSGI. Aristotle pointed out Plack::Middleware::MockProxyFrontend in the comments.

by Reini Urban (RURBAN)

Reini points out some problems with YAML modules for Perl 5. In a follow-up post he describes his thoughts so far on what to do about it.

by Graham Ollis (PLICEASE)

If you've a module based on Alien::Base, then you should read this, including the comments.

by Steven Haryanto (SHARYANTO)

Perlancar's lint-prereqs script can be used to check whether your distribution has (the right versions of) all the right prereqs, and if you're using Dist::Zilla it can even fix up your dist.ini. I've never had any problems using [AutoPrereqs], but I know that not everyone does.

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

Two for the price of one! Two weeks worth of P5P in a single summary, so lots of bug fixes and lots of new bugs reported.

by Lukas Mai (MAUKE)

Lukas points that that the dereferencing curlies in @{$foo} are introducing a code block, so you can do whatever you like in there, as long as it results in an appropriate reference.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Gabor walks through running Perl::Critic at a certain level, while excluding some policies that you might not agree with, or be ready to deal with yet.

by Andrew Solomon (ILLY)

Andrew shows how to use the flip-flop operator in Perl, and links to further reading from other Perl bloggers.

by Tom Wyant (WYANT)

Tom found that a failure with LWP::Protocol::https was due to an upgrade from 1.0.2f to 1.0.2g of OpenSSL. He shows how you can downgrade a MacPort. You should be aware of the security issues announced this week (the most widely reported being the DROWN attack), which affected older versions of OpenSSL.

by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN)

An update on Jonathan's latest grant work on performance and reliability of Perl 6. The bulk of it was making object accessors a lot faster.

by Rob Hoelz (RHOELZ)

Rob builds n-gram frequency data for Russian, based on text from a Russian tech blog site, in Perl 6.

by Yanick Champoux (YANICK)

Yenzie has started using Taskwarrior to manage his todo list, and already he's written a plugin system for managing Taskwarrior hooks.

by Sinan Unur (NANIS)

Sinan noticed that a certain distribution fails to install on Cygwin, and tracked it down to this: if a tar file has foo and foo.exe, then when you extract from the tar file you'll get foo but not foo.exe. See here for example discussion.

by Rohan Almeida (ROHAN)

Rohan has started working on project called lickcreator, a music notation tool for guitarists. He'll be writing about it on his blog.

by Mark Keating

One of a series of posts by Mark, celebrating 10 years of Shadowcat. This one describes some key systems they've developed, some of them which are only used internally.

Jeff, who works for ActiveState, thinks Perl is a bit of a dark horse, used by lots of companies, and under-scored on various programming language charts. Plenty of people are just getting on and doing things with Perl.

by Lee Johnson (LEEJO)

A great article from the current maintainer of the CGI module, where he takes us through history of CGI, and uses it to illustrate some points about the definition of legacy.

by Karen Pauley

Tony Cook has requested an extension of his grant for working on Perl 5.

An update on the project to convert blogs.perl.org to a new blogging system from Evozon.

by Moritz Lenz (MORITZ)

Moritz is writing a book about deployment, and has created a place for discussing the topic as well.

by Jum Whitehurst

Jim Whitehurst is the CEO of RedHat, which isn't your typical open source organisation. Here is presents what he thinks makes an good open source leader, a key element of which he believes is seeing yourself as a catalyst and not a commander.