by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

A summary of recent activity on P5P, including grant reports, news, issues and discussions.

by Steve Bertrand

Steve announces that the fundraiser for a new eBook has started.

by D Ruth Holloway

On Sawyer's recommendation, I take a look at this module for making consistent regexes for data validation

by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS)

Dave's preparations for a talk for the London Perl Mongers exposed a couple of bits that could be turned into new modules for CPAN.

by Elizabeth Mattijsen (ELIZABETH)

The weekly roundup of Perl 6 news, detailing core work, blog posts, and news about upcoming tutorials and presentations

by Jeff Goff (JGOFF)

Jeff has released a module to convert ANTLR4 lexer/parser grammars tfom ANTLR to Perl 6.

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

David encourages folks to write more technical articles. There's some fantastic advice in here!

Merely calling Randal a 'Perl Developer' doesn't tell the half of everything he has done for Perl over the years. In this interview, we peek into Perl history, some prognostication about where Perl is headed, and what Randal is up to these days.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

10 Interviews with Perl Developers from 2013. Now listed on one page.

April 4-6, 2018, Gummersbach.

by Damian Conway (DCONWAY)

May 8-9, 2018, Budapest. Presentation Aikido by Damian and lots of other workshop at the Craft Conference.

by Damian Conway (DCONWAY)

May 14-18, 2018, Lausanne. Five trainig classes by Damian.

May 18-19, 2018, Paris.

June 17-22, 2018, Salt Lake City.

August 15-17, 2018, Glasgow. The Call for Papers is open.

September 7-8, 2018 Bern.

by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR)

Mohammad attended the Tech Meet, and found it very useful!

by Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)

A meeting report on Gotanda.pm, including slides from a talk about writing Perl with W0rp/ale.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

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

If there’s any industry that desperately needs more friendly technology and whose consumers are long-overdue the bounty offered by a Modern Perl technology stack, it’s finance.

Over the New Year, the majority of Perl employers in London decided they were voraciously hiring. At the same time, apparently, most Perl developers decided to scuttle — hermit-crab-like 🦀🐚 — away from the active job market.

Me, I get excited by shiny things. I played with Maypole before Catalyst or Mojolicious was a thing, and I wrote some mean Class::DBI code before DBIx::Class took over the Perl ORM business.