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 released a new version of DBIx::Custom, dropping some features that have been deprecated for the last 5 years.

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

Sawyer's weekly update from the P5P mailing list.

by Robert Spier

The cpan.org and perldoc.perl.org sites are now available using https, and are CDNified thanks to Fastly. Thanks to Fastly.

by Steve Bertrand

Stealing the first line of Steve's post: this tutorial shows how to wrap a C shared library using XS and Perl (including creating a trivial test shared library).

by Elizabeth Mattijsen (ELIZABETH)

The weekly round-up of Perl 6 news, the headline for which was DrForr's first release of Perl6::Tidy.

by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN)

Jonathan introduces hyper and race, two Perl 6 methods which will be getting nailed down in the next release of the Perl 6 language definition, 6.d (the language is defined by the testsuite).

by Moritz Lenz (MORITZ)

Moritz plots some data in Perl 6, in another extract from his Perl 5 book.

by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY)

Dave does some Pi-related hacking in Perl, in honour of Pi day.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Gabor introduces the Cwd module, and shows the differences between the cwd() and getcwd() functions.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

We're having a session of short tech talks at Thames Valley Perl Mongers, next Monday (27th March), if you fancy joining us? Topics are PDF::API2, synchronising databases, custom reports for Netdisco, packaging for Debian, and the River of CPAN.

by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS)

Dave wants to know what training course he should run at YAPC::Europe this year. If you care, let him know please.

by Makoto Nozaki

The monthly update on Perl 5 work done by Dave Mitchell, supported by a Perl 5 development grant.

by Nathan Rijksen

ActiveState have released a new version of the Komodo IDE. No new features, but a bunch of fixes.

by Pat Kua

Giving and receiving feedback can help both individuals and projects. But done wrong it can just plain suck, and when you're doing open source for fun, it can really suck. Pat shares some tips from colleagues, on giving and receiving feedback.

by Phil Keslin

Phil Keslin, CTO of Niantic, explains how the engineering team prepared for--and just barely survived--the experience of launching Pokémon Go.

by James Sulinski

Apparently, 24% of latest Docker images have significant vulnerabilities.

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