by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Before you get excited in the wrong direction, this has nothing to do with the Apache Maven. This is the first and admittedly very small edition of the Perl Maven Cookbook. This is also the announcement of the Perl Maven web site I have been planning (and not developing) for half a year now. The Cookbook is given exclusively (and free of charge) to the people who subscribe to the Perl Maven newsletter.

On behalf of The Perl Foundation, Josh McAdams announced the call for venue for next year's YAPC::NA.

The French Perl Workshop will take place on 29-30 June, 2012, in Strasbourg. Talks are preferred in French but English is also accepted.

It will be held between 19-20 October 2012 in Sao Paulo, Brasil. - I've never been to Brasil :)

For a long time I have not heard anything about mod_perl. I was not actively looking for it either, so I am not sure if there was no new or if they were just very shy. I was happy to see the announcement by Fred Moyer with all the changes that went into this version.

by Alberto Simões (AMBS)

Alberto Simoes publish The Perl Foundation grant proposals. They are waiting for your feedback!

After a long break genehack (John SJ Anderson) is back writing. Telling his journey that started with a bug in Git::Wrapper went through Dist::Zilla, landed at Emacs configuration. The nice thing is that instead of abandoning the whole yak, he actually managed to shave it, went back and solved the original problem too.

by Reini Urban (RURBAN)

Reini Urban took several modules (eg. Moose, Module::Build, DateTime::TimeZone, Dancer), and checked their sizes after static compilation of every C code they need. some surprising results there and some interesting comments.

Sqitch is a new tool by David Wheeler that will help you manage the changes in SQL in a way similar to how VCS-es work. We are lucky to be able to follow the development of the tool.

Is programming complex? Should we expect everyone to use strict; use warnings and know how to use a hash before they can ask any question? How should we help others to start programming? All this in he usual, opinionated style of chromatic.

AEvar Arnfjoro Bjarmason tells us that you don't always want Moose to throw an exception when an invalid value is passed to a setter method. Sometimes you might want to silently accept the bad value or fall back to some default. With or without warning.

MooX::Options makes it easy to create command line tools. Despite its name, it works with Mo, Moo, Mouse, Moose and more. By Geistteufel (Celogeek).

by Reini Urban (RURBAN)

Mr. Muskrat using a shell script to brew several versions of perl and Reini Urban points to perlall.

Uwe Voelker has started to built native Perl interfaces Interactive Brokers Traders Workstation (IB TWS) API.

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

What happens if you load Any::Moose and then some other module loads Moose? Will it break? What does Sawyer X suggest?

Chris Grau explores web scraping with the good old WWW::Mechanize and HTML::DOM and then re-implements the same using Mojo::UserAgent and finally using WWW::Scripter. It's interesting to compare the three solutions.

by Sinan Unur (NANIS)

A nice example by Sinan Unur showing usage of perl + HTML + CSS (setting the width style attributes by the template). In the script he is using /x \A and \Z in regexes and it really is nice.

Jonathan Swartz explains that memoization is basically caching and then shows the memoize module CHI::Memoize of his CHI cache.

Mark McCracken is mostly a C++ programmer but this time he had to use JavaScript to check himself into FourSquare and then he is using Perl and a bunch of CPAN modules to monitor his long running scripts on an IRC channel. He also has a nice CPAN logo.

by Buddy Burden (BAREFOOT)

Buddy Burden is using the lazy option of the Moose attributes as a cache.

by Sebastian Willing (SEWI)

Using Perl and some other glue Sebastian Willing explains how to create a crossword puzzle in German. I guess you could apply the same method in other languages as well.

Sergey Zasenko (und3f) is playing music using Perl and Audio::Beep and MIDI::ALSA

Ynon Perek gave a fun presentation about Perl Golf at the last Israel.pm meeting. These are his slides.

by Herbert Breunung (LICHTKIND)

If you don't know anything about Perl 6 this might be a good chance to both learn about it and contribute to its documentation. Check out the call of Herbert Breunung (lichtkind) to work on the Perl 6 tablets.

by Moritz Lenz (MORITZ)

'DBIish, the new database interface for Rakudo Perl 6, now has a working SQLite backend.' writes Moritz Lenz.

May 12-13, 2012, Kiev, Ukraine

June 4-5, 2012, Stockholm, Sweden

June 13-15, 2012, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

June 29-30, 2012, Strasbourg