Issue #367 - 2018-08-06 - 7 years, 6 editors, 367 issues, 6,444 readers

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Hi,

A little over 7 years ago on August 1st 2011, the first edition of the Perl Weekly was published.

Thank you for all the blog posts and all your support!

Enjoy your week!

Gabor Szabo


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Announcements

Perl Foundation Website Update

The Perl Foundation has a new look. I hope the news site will follow the update.


Articles

CPAN

How to become a CPAN contributor - part 2

by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR)

Some advice on adding license to the META files, add missing strict and warnings pragma, adding missing minimum version of Perl, just to get started.


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Perl Tutorial

A section for newbies and for people who need some refreshing of their Perl knowledge. If you have questions or suggestions about the articles, let me know and I'll try to make the necessary changes. The included articles are from the Perl Maven Tutorial and are part of the Perl Maven eBook.


Perl 6

Rakudo Perl 6 performance analysis tooling - Grant Report #3

by Alan Haggai Alavi (HAGGAI)

Timo has developed a shiny new UI for the tool. It displays thread-level garbage collection details.

2018.31 Check Out Garbage

by Elizabeth Mattijsen (ELIZABETH)

Perl 6 Weekly


Weekly collections

Events

The Perl Conference in Europe

August 15-17, 2018, Glasgow. The Call for Papers has closed, but you can still register as a participant.

Nordic Perl Workshop and MojoConf 2018

September 6-7, 2018, Oslo.

Swiss Perl Workshop

September 7-8, 2018 Bern.

London Perl Workshop 2018

Saturday 3rd November 2018 London


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