by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR)

Mohammad and myself had a short session of remote pair programming. The immediate result was a Pull-Request in the Dancer2 project. The more interesting result is that now Mohammad offers to have pair-programming sessions to work on issues in the CPAN ecosystem.

The Nordic Perl Workshop and MojoConf 2018 will be held in Oslo, on September 6th and 7th. CFP submission dead line June 1th 2018.

by John Scoles (BYTEROCK)

Writing tests for Baby Moose.

by John Scoles (BYTEROCK)

The first bug found in the code.

by Saif Uddin Ahmed (SAIFTYNET)

GUIDeFATE - GUI Design From A Text Editor is a Quick-and-Dirty GUI designer for newbies. Websockets provide persistent two-way connection between web client and web server. Now together.

by Yuki Kimoto (KIMOTO)

Introducing the winmorbo batch script.

by Steve Bertrand

$2,668 USD raised by 114 backers. 107% of the $2,500 goal.

by Jens Rehsack

It is more of an introduction to Moo than a show of hardware.

by Yang Bo (RSLOVERS)

RSLinux-v1.01 is a new Linux distribution with its package manager, build configurations, and a demo one liner init system all written in Perl.

The request 'Perl 6: Bugfixing and Performance of Rationals Fixing Constraints on Constants' was approved.

by Chad Granum (EXODIST)

The Test2 Manual grant has been finished. Read the detailed report here.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

A new entry in the Common Warnings and Error messages in Perl series in which I give examples of code that trigger specific warning and errors in Perl together with alternative explanations.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

How can you find a string in a file that might start on one line and end on another line? It would not be easy to do it if we read the file line-by-line.

by Elizabeth Mattijsen (ELIZABETH)

The weekly dose of Perl 6

I agree with the title and with most of the points. It is very easy to get started writing on Medium or GitHub Pages where you can also connect your own domain name. If you write about Perl, feel free to send me a link and you might get an audience of a few thousand people to your new blog. It would be great to see a few new authors included in this newsletter!

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

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

by Ariel Szabo

This is the first post of my son on his journey to Data Science: Showing how to use 'Feature Selection' to improve the prediction model.

by David Golden (DAGOLDEN)

For the community, having so many high-caliber people able to spend dedicated time on the infrastructure of Perl is a hugely effective way of getting things done and making the most of volunteer time. Having the right people in the room means that almost no question is too obscure to get an answer from at least one of the attendees.

by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (MIYAGAWA)

Working on toolchain is a hard job, since you have to support all the old versions of the software, and will be blamed and criticized for “fixing broken features” because people are relying on these broken features.

This is why Perl Toolchain Summit is so valuable so that I can get together with these people, exchange ideas and get a great moral support.

by Joel Berger (JBERGER)

This is always an amazingly productive event and in my opinion, if your company is looking to help Perl, there are very few better ways to do so than sponsoring this event.

by Ricardo Signes (RJBS)

They're small events with about thirty people, all of whom are there by invitation. The idea is that the invitees are people who do important work on "the toolchain," which basically means "the code used to distribute, install, and test Perl software modules."

by Olaf Alders (OALDERS)

As part of some of the other work going on, there was progress made towards a tighter integration of the CPAN river data in the MetaCPAN API. Also, we now have access to Neil Bowers’ CPAN river data generator. There’s a plan to have MetaCPAN directly generate this data, rather than having us pull the data from him.

With information about The Perl Conference in Salt Lake City, UT, USA between June 17 – June 22.

There is also a hike in the hills of Budapest after the conference.

by Damian Conway (DCONWAY)

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

May 18-19, 2018, Paris.

June 17-22, 2018, Salt Lake City.

July 7, 2018, Arnhem, The Netherlands

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

September 6-7, 2018, Oslo.

September 7-8, 2018 Bern.

I attend a lot of Perl conferences and it’s always interesting to see which employers are well-represented with a lot of delegates and which employers have little or no presence. This company is up there among the most prominently represented at a number of the European conferences, and shows a real commitment to staying at the cutting edge of Perl. In-house, the focus on training and development continues with a strong mentorship programme – a large number of their Senior Developers started there in Junior roles.

We recently started to advertise a developer role at a financial services company that’s growing in a bamboo-like fashion. We can now confirm that they’re also looking for some top talent to help lead this expansion. If you’re currently a senior full stack developer looking to take on your next role as an architect then this is a great opportunity to do so in a company that is both ambitious and supportive. Increased job satisfaction is another perk, as their codebase is notably new and clean and the team are committed to using modern practices.

I love working in a vibrant, modern space. If you’re going to spend all day at work, it might as well be somewhere you enjoy being, rather than a cubicle farm. This client has a workspace I’m actively jealous of!