by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

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

by Philipp Gortan (GORTAN)

Philipp has submitted a pull request to Log::Any, to add support for passing structured data. If you use Log::Any, take a look!

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

The main news for that week was that Perl 5.26 is now available. Some other stuff went on as well.

by Yuki Kimoto (KIMOTO)

Kimoto-san has released a new version of his Github replacement, GitPrep, which adds wiki support.

by Andy Lester (PETDANCE)

Perl::Critic, the static code analysis tool for Perl.

by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN)

Jonathan describes some work he did to fix a longstanding I/O bug in MoarVM, funded by Nick Logan.

by Moritz Lenz (MORITZ)

Moritz summarises the Perl 6 books that are available now, or in development.

by Elizabeth Mattijsen (ELIZABETH)

The weekly roundup of Perl 6 news.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Gabor is working on a blogging engine in Perl 6, as one of the examples for his book on web application development in Perl 6.

by Andy Lester (PETDANCE)

by David Oswarld (DAVIDO)

Information about the Perl Conference, which kicks off next Sunday (18th June) with tutorials from the superband of Anderson, Rolsky, Signes, and Schwartz. If you're going, why not give a lightning talk?

by Paul Zolnierczyk

John Anderson and Jay Hannah, who both work for Infinity Interactive, are giving talks at TPC. Infinity are not only a sponsor of the conference, they've developed the conference app for Android and iOS, which you can use to get the most out of your time at TPC. Nice one Infinity!

by André Walker

André has applied for a grant of $3k to have a go at providing a replacement for blogs.perl.org. If you have any thoughts on this, please add comments at the foot of the post.

by Zoffix Znet (ZOFFIX)

Zoffix has completed his work on standardisation, test coverage, and documentation of Perl 6 I/O routines, which was supported by a grant. Read about what he did.

by Samantha McVey

A progress report from Samantha on her project to support the robustness of Unicode support in Rakudo. This work is supported by a TPF grant.

by Jim Brandt

Mark Prather has volunteered to be the chairman of the TPF community advocacy committee. He has some ideas, but is looking for more fresh blood, if you want to join the committee.

by Dave Mitchell

Dave's biggest piece of work in May was reworking the sprintf implementation, in the process fixing bugs and making it faster.

by Pat Kua

A review of O'Reilly's book "Scaling Teams". Pat regularly talks on being a tech leader, and has a lot of experience helping development teams. I'll be adding it to my wishlist.

Got an eye for detail and some HTML/CSS/jQuery skills? Want to work in a small team with a very popular product in Central London? Some exposure to Catalyst and Template Toolkit?

There’s Bad CGI, and there’s Good CGI. Bad CGI involves your web-server standing up new perl processes for incoming requests, where Good CGI makes the films you watch magical . This job – unusually for Perl – involves Good CGI.

Personally, I love Agile and Scrum so much I wrote a set of blog articles detailing why I love them so much. But it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. Some  people yearn for being given a two-week task, going away, and getting it done well by themselves, or in consultation with highly technical and well-read colleagues.