by Paul Johnson (PJCJ)

Paul first released Devel::Cover on 9th April 2001, the day after Perl 5.6.1 was released. Paul has been chief maintainer from then 'til now, but he also points out that 86 other people have contributed to it over the last 15 years.

by Buddy Burden (BAREFOOT)

Buddy continues his saga on his date and time modules, this time by waxing lyrical about the fabulous CPAN Testers.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

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

by Max Maischein (CORION)

Max introduces his Archive::SevenZip module, which lets you access files and directories in an archive using an API similar to Path::Class.

by Dan Book (DBOOK)

Dan introduces his new [@Starter] plugin bundle for Dist::Zilla, aimed at making it easy to get started with DZ while providing more than the traditional [@Basic] bundle.

by Max Maischein (CORION)

Max has released Plack::Middleware::Pod — Plack middleware for rendering pod files as HTML.

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

Curtis shows how they've been creating private Moose attributes in a project he's working on, and in the comments other people have shared how they do it.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

The second in a series of blog posts about the Perl and CPAN infrastructure. This one covers creating, editing, and testing a CPAN distribution. It was supported by ActiveState, who are a gold sponsor for the QA Hackathon this year.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

A tutorial on use of the prove utility to run your tests during development.

by Zoffix Znet (ZOFFIX)

Zoffix addresses the issue of Perl 6's performance, whether the general perception of it is right. He mentions some recent recent work to start making things faster, and various language features you can use to make your Perl 6 run faster.

by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN)

A short update from Jonathan on his recent Perl 6 work.

by Zoffix Znet (ZOFFIX)

Zoffix introduces some of the aspects of Perl 6's typing system.

by Philippe Bruhat (BOOK)

An update from BooK about about his Test::Requires::Git module, which he started hacking on after attending last year's QA Hackathon.

by Alexey Melezhik (MELEZHIK)

Alexey introduces a plugin for his sparrow framework that is used to find potentially stale processes on your server.

by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS)

Dave shares some code he wrote "back in the day", which he describes as "terrible". It's good to look back at your old code, and hopefully see how you've improved.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

Strato sponsored the QA Hackathon last year, when it was in their home town of Berlin, and they're sponsoring it again this year. They're also looking to hire some German-speaking Perl developers as well.

by Sheila Louis

Sheila explains why ActiveState think the QA Hackathon is important, and why they are sponsors this year.

by Damian Conway (DCONWAY)

Damian is going to be giving a number of talks in Oslo later this month, including some paid classes and public talks.

by Mark Keating

Mark's final post in the series celebrating 10 years of Shadowcat, describing definition of, and approach to, sponsorship.

by Karen Pauley

Tony Cook's report on work done against his Perl Foundation grant.

A good short read on some of the things you can do to avoid brittle code. A number of good points, but in particular I liked the discussion about technical debt.