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by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

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

by JT Smith (RIZEN)

JT introduces his new SVG::Estimate module, which estimates the length of all vectors in an SVG file.

by Tom Wyant (WYANT)

Tom describes the changes in the new version of his Perl::Critic::Policy::Variables::ProhibitUnusedVarsStricter module. It's a Perl::Critic policy for catching unused variables.

by Thomas Klausner (DOMM)

Thomas has created a simple Plack app for monitoring a server.

by Christian Walde (MITHALDU)

Christian is doing some developer releases of the OpenGL module, and would like your help: please try and install it, and let him know what happens.

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

I didn't have time to read it closely, but possibly something about French onion soup?

by JT Smith (RIZEN)

JT laments the loss of smart match. It's only a short post, but read the comments.

by brian d foy (BDFOY)

A short post from brian about Regexp::Debugger, which can animate a regular expression matching string, to help you understand how it works.

by Tom Radcliffe

ActivePerl 5.24 is now available!

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Hopefully we all know now why we should use the three argument version of open(). But if you do, you really should include use 5.006; in your code.

by Amarnath Ravikumar (AMARNUS)

Amarnath and Srinivas describe the Perl toolbox that's been used to build micro-services at Semantics3.

by Brett Estrade (OODLER)

Wednesday night at YAPC there's a mini pull request challenge (yay!), with food and drink sponsored by Craigslist. Why not go along and help someone else's CPAN distribution?

A short post showing how you can count the number of characters (in this case Chinese characters) in a string with Perl 6.

by Jonathan Taylor

Jonathan argues that the Perl community just isn't very welcoming for beginners, particularly in the exactly the places that are meant to be for beginners.

by Tony Cook (TONYC)

Tony's ongoing work for his Perl 5 grant.

by Dave Mitchell

Dave spent some time trying to make Scope::Upper work under Perl 5.24.

Ten good things to do with a new GitHub repo.