A holiday tradition since 2000!

Every year since 2009--no fancy calendar, just great blog entries every year in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

by Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Joel has started a new blog for Mojolicious, and is kicking it off in grand style, with an Advent calendar.

They are a couple of days behind as I write this, but the Dancer team has produced an Advent calendar since 2010.

by Thomas Waddle

Thomas attends his first LPW, and writes about it for Eligo's blog.

by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS)

Dave had a great day at the LPW, and tells us all about it.

by Mark Keating

MDK couldn't be satisified with one post (listed in last week's issue of the Perl Weekly), he had to post on the company blog, too. 'Cuz he's like that.

by Salvador Fandiño (SALVA)

Salvador also attended LPW, gave a talk, and had a great time!

by Todd Rinaldo

P5P held a Hackathon October 12-15. Todd reports on some of the key work, and teases us with more blog posts to come.

by Doug Bell (PREACTION)

Doug continues improving integration of CPAN Testers with MetaCPAN. He attended the second annual MetaCPAN hackathon, and here reports on his work at the event, along with a list of upcoming work.

by John Scoles (BYTEROCK)

Choosing a namespace for a new CPAN module is non-trivial. John gives us some of his though processes for the work he's on.

The builtinperl.com folks interview Ed Freyfogle, co-founder of OpenCage Data about the work they're doing in geocoding with Perl.

by Aristotle Pagaltzis (ARISTOTLE)

Aristotle tells us a bit about some of the design considerations in Perl 5.

by Ed Jordan

This new plugin provides conversion from a given OpenAPI specification to a GraphQL schema.

by Elizabeth Mattijsen (ELIZABETH)

The weekly roundup of Rakudo news.

by st33znson

After learning a lot about Grammars, st33znson has written up a small scraper, and shares it with us in this Reddit thread.

by Tina Müller (TINITA)

Tina has been working hard on YAML-related work including presenting at the LPW. She reports on a number of improvements, and other grant-related activity.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

Great modules released last week;
MetaCPAN weekly report;
StackOverflow Perl report.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

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