by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

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

by Yanick Champoux (YANICK)

Alas, poor Yanick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent scripting capabilities. He hath blogged a thousand times, and now one time more: a script to run your Perl script, ensuring all dependencies are installed.

by Olaf Alders (OALDERS)

Last week Olaf ran an LWP hack night (also announced on b.p.o), and to prepare for it he posted this information about the various CPAN distributions that live in the LWP organisation on github.

by Philippe Bruhat (BOOK)

Philippe has updated his Git::Database module, which lets you query the Git object database. Now it can use any of seven different backend modules.

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

Sawyer's weekly update from the P5P mailing list. One of the changes coming in Perl 5.26 is not including '.' in @INC, the implications of which are still rumbling on.

by Steve Bertrand

Berrybrew is a tool for Windows users that can manage installations of multiple versions of Perl, like perlbrew. There's a new version of berrybrew available, and this post summarises the changes.

by Jeremy Holland

In Perl 4, instead of :: we used ' as a package separator. Jeremy wonders why we haven't dropped support for that from Perl 5.

by Zoffix Znet (ZOFFIX)

Monthly progress report from Zoffix on his TPF grant for Perl 6 I/O routines.

by Moritz Lenz (MORITZ)

More tips from Moritz on using Python from Perl 6.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

The Perl Toolchain Summit is only possible with support from sponsors. To acknowledge our Platinum and Gold sponsors, we'll be doing a series of blog posts about toolchain topics, each thanking one sponsor. This first post, an introduction to distribution metadata files, is brought to you by FastMail.

by Dan Book (DBOOK)

Dan has created a simple web-based interface to the CPAN Index (02packages.details.txt) and the PAUSE permissions dump (06perms.txt).

by Graham Ollis (PLICEASE)

An Alien distribution is one that relies on a third party library, typically written in C or similar. Here Graham introduces alienfile, a new recipe system for installing the external packages that an Alien distribution depends on.

by Caleb Cushing (XENO)

For some very pragmatic and understandable reasons, Caleb made the transition from Perl to Java, and here he shares some of his thoughts on that.

For March, the CV Library team was assigned Linux::Unshare in the CPAN Pull Request Challenge. Here Lance describes their evening spent scoffing pizza and working on the dist's one open bug in RT.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

I was so happy with the CV Library team's efforts (team bonding that improves CPAN for all of us!) that I wrote this post to try and encourage more dev groups to join the pull request challenge as a team.

by Doug Bell (PREACTION)

Doug takes us through his approach to log levels.

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

Ovid shares his tips for using the Perl debugger with DBIx::Class.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

This week was about Graph::Easy - creating and rendering directed graphs. Don't miss the next edition!

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Not a recommendation to use crypt, just a description of an algorithm.

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Friendly and Perl-committed company based in Oxford who build a very popular software product. They use Catalyst + Starman, DBIx::Class, and are heavily bought in to Moose.

Do you speak German, Perl, and passable English? My London-based client is interested in native (or near-native) German speakers who are interested in relocating to London (to join an English-speaking team).