by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (MIYAGAWA)

I don't know if you attach any meaning to the 1.0 release number, but if you do, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa has just released version 1.0 of Plack. He also describes how the development will change

by Reini Urban (RURBAN)

Reini Urban recently switched the cygwin perl from 5.10 to 5.14 and released version 4.6.0 of the Parrot Virtual Machine. In this article he compares the two processes.

Step-by-step instructions by David Moreno.

This is the first part of a mini-series I started to write on the Perl 5 Maven site. I use so much boiler-plate code when writing these scripts that I though it might be interesting to describe and explain the parts.

by Sawyer X (XSAWYERX)

Sawyer X has switched.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

Neil Bowers is back with his awesome comparison articles. He compares as many as 20(!) different modules that can handle the simple task of making HTTP requests.

I think the only reasonable way to ensure a piece of code survives an upgrade is to write automated unit tests. This is true regardless of language. Even in the conservative Perl 5 there were and there will be changed that break code. And don't even talk about PHP, Python or Ruby. Naturally Perl 6 still has some time till it stabilizes, so it is even more important to write unit-tests for your Perl 6 modules and scripts.

by Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Joel Berger has announced a new web site and a new mailing list for scientists who want to use Perl. He would like to make this a bridge between scientists who are looking for a programming language and Perl.

by David Mertens (DCMERTENS)

David Mertens is planning to go out and engage the people who do science and present the Perl solutions that can help them.

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

by Yanick Champoux (YANICK)

While standing on the shoulders of giants, Yanick Champoux is catching birds. He also created a tool to do system checks that he could install on different machines and query via a web server. - But frankly, I did not have time to look up all the words in a dictionary...

by Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi (VTI)

Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi (vti) started to put together an engine that would allow anyone to type code snippets in a browser and evaluate on a server. This can change interactive Perl training a lot. If he can make it work really well.

by Paul Johnson (PJCJ)

Paul Johnson is reporting on his progress with coverage reporting.

by John Napiorkowski (JJNAPIORK)

John Napiorkowski collected the earlier posts about the subject and tried to synthesise the approach the Perl.org community might need to take.

by Mark Allen (MALLEN)

The OSCON presentation given by Mark Allen.

by Reini Urban (RURBAN)

This is the release Reini Urban prepared ....

by Moritz Lenz (MORITZ)

This is the first guest-post of Moritz Lenz on the Perl 6 Maven site. He writes a simple piece of code - looking for a file in a set of directories - and rewrites it several times. It both shortens the script and makes use of features available in Perl 6 but not in Perl 5.

There were six contestants. Who is the winner?

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

Finally I managed to set up my own 'shop' to sell the Beginner Perl Maven e-book using PayPal. To celebrate this I am selling the e-book at 50% discount till 25 July 2012. That leaves you two days to buy the e-book at the lower price. (The price includes unlimited access to the newer editions.) The only issue is that you have to be already registered and logged in the Perl 5 Maven site before you can purchase the e-book.

August 20-22, 2012, Frankfurt, Germany

August 25-30, Preikestolen Mountain Lodge, near Stavanger, Norway

September 27-29, 2012, Tokyo, Japan

October 11-12, 2012, Bologna, Italy