I can't read it well, but I liked their news section very much :)

I am not sure if Yanick is not just fooling with us releasing DBD::Oracle on 1st April. This was probably the most serious post I read from him. Ever. He is also using plain English. I don't know. Maybe Oracle does that to him.

by Damian Conway (DCONWAY)

Damian Conway tells us why he loves his job. I only saw part of his Presentation Aikido class, but I saw several other presentations by Damian. I can really recommend him! (Not that he needs my recommendation :)

by Mark Fowler (MARKF)

Given the name of a function, finding the definition of it is a relatively easy task. Mark Fowler provides the other way around, listing all the places where a function is being used. Can be very handy when trying to understand or refactor a piece of code.

The latest post on the Perl-tips newsletter by Paul Fenwick and Jacinta Richardson is dealing with cpanminus. Subscribe to their mailing list if you don't want to miss the next episode (and the course discount that usually comes with it.)

by brian d foy (BDFOY)

brian d foy is wondering why people would want to use and old and outdated version of this book and analyzes which edition is still useful today.

This is the first time I link to an item on Hacker News and it is strange. In any case, DDG had some impressive growth. You might want to pay attention. Also I liked the comment: 'DDG is written in Perl, good looking Perl too'

by Jeffrey Kegler (JKEGL)

It is only related to Perl as this was written by Jeffrey Kegler, author of the Marpa parser. It generated responses from some people who have not commented yet which is really nice. Broadening the Perl community.

This is a funny. It seems that once someone starts to use Python, s/he immediately has the urge to fetch the 'unreadable' mantra. Even when the Perl code is much more readable than the Python code. The fact that the Perl version is also twice as fast than the Python version is just a minor side issue. Well, everyone and their bias.

by Paul Johnson (PJCJ)

Paul Johnson stole some ideas from Ruby so now you can see (part of the) report from vim. Cute green >> marks and red :( marks appropriately on lines without a coverage. I tried it and for me it was only working on the files in blib/lib but maybe I need to fix something in my setup.

by Barbie (BARBIE)

Barbie made some very nice improvement to the CPAN Testers infrastructure. Most notably there is now an API to fetch updates from the database. Eliminating the need to download the whole database which is several Gb.

Thanks to the sponsors of the QA Hackathon!

by Tudor Constantin (TCONST)

Tudor Constantin found a research that puts some quantitative measures to the cost of 'technical debt'. I am not sure what the conclusion of this should be. Throwing away the old and partially broken code? Adding automatic tests to the existing application? Nothing? After all we would like to avoid paying that debt.

by Andy Lester (PETDANCE)

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

Ovid improved DB::Color that allows you to have color while using the built-in debugger of Perl. He also discovered some bugs in Syntax::Highlight::Engine::Kate that I maintain. As it was in the SVN repository of Padre I quickly converted it to Github and Ovid already pushed some regression tests. It would be nice if some good soul took a look at that module as I probably won't have much time for it.

by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX)

Flavio Poletti writes about the use of Log4perl together with Dancer.

by Peter Thoeny

Did you know that Pixar runs on Perl (too)? And the other nice web sites? Most of the TWiki installations are in-house but there are a few that are publicly accessible.

The Banshee library is just an SQLite database. Brian Cassidy (bricas) shares a small script that can help you update this database when files are renamed.

by Dominic Humphries (ONEONETWO)

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

I am running two sets of the shortened, 2-days version of the training class.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

SVG allows you to create nice and scalable graphics using Perl. I wanted to play a bit with it and while reading the documentation I found some issues. So now I am a co-maintainer of the module. You are more than welcome to send bug reports, failing tests and fixes. You can also see a few simple examples in the blog.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

A simple introduction to creating modules that can export functions.

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