by John Napiorkowski (JJNAPIORK)

The news: PAGI is now three CPAN distributions instead of one. PAGI-Server — the reference server; PAGI-Tools — the application toolkit; PAGI — the specification;

by Ron Savage (RSAVAGE)

by John Napiorkowski (JJNAPIORK)

A port of the sample app from What Is Middleware? - which builds the same three-layer stack in Plack/PSGI (Perl) and Starlette/ASGI (Python) - to PAGI, an async, ASGI-style application interface for Perl.

The high schooler who developed everyone’s forums and guestbooks in 1996 didn’t really think about security when he was building all that software. But Matt’s Script Archive was more than exploits.

by Herbert Breunung (LICHTKIND)

GTC 2.20 brings a huge amount of new features again (described in this post) and is starting an additional, more trimmed down, high level API, geared more toward what designers expect. But it also comes with new documentation and error handling, the two most important things that were missing for a professional distribution.

by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS)

Dave writes: 'A question came up recently in the Perl community asking whether, in a Mojolicious application, it’s better to use DBIx::Class or a Mojolicious-specific module like Mojo::Pg. It's an interesting question, but I think it's asking the wrong thing.'

by Chad Granum (EXODIST)

Chad writes: 'This weekend at the perl and raku conference I did a presentation on how to move forward from the current state of DBIx::Class and its lack of new development. We discussed several options including an alternative I have been writing. I have never liked DBIx::Class, so I tried to write something that felt more intuitive to how my brain works. It was suggested that I post it here.'

by James Wright (JWRIGHT)

James writes: 'If you're like me, you use a constant a lot (I may overuse it). I often use it to turn typos in words and fields into compile-time errors, and for that I usually create constants that either are the named the same as the word, or the word uppercased.'

by brian d foy (BDFOY)

DBIO - Native relational mapping for Perl, built on DBI

by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR)

Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Sum of Frequencies" and "Reverse Degree". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read the FAQ.

by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR)

Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Reverse String" and "Armstrong Number" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy.

by Ali Moradi

The Blog Post by Ali provides a highly efficient and minimalist way of coding in Perl by offering solutions to the problem set of The Weekly Challenge #379. Ali uses a brilliant chop loop to reverse a string and a concisely written higher-order grep block to determine Armstrong numbers in the given base. This shows that Perl can be written very compactly but also in an extremely expressive manner.

by Arne Sommer

Arne has given us a great example of Raku's toolkit through the Weekly Challenge 379. He uses many of the Raku methods (comb, pop, base, etc.) to write very concise and effective code for both reversing a string and finding base-specific Armstrong numbers. If you want your Raku skillset to grow in terms of both abilities and syntax style, you should definitely read this.

by Jaldhar H. Vyas

This post does an excellent job of illustrating how the relationship between Perl and Raku has changed over time, and uses that to illustrate how these two languages handle identical logic with different syntaxes. It uses examples of how Perl uses the classic, reliable Perl syntax and how Raku provides its own modern, built-in methods of extracting a digit from a number with the modern feature of converting between bases instead.

by Jorg Sommrey

This article contains a clear, consistent format outlining all parts of the challenge as well showing ingenuity in using both the Perl and J languages. The examples of different ways to reverse a string with both in-place reversal and use of PDL slicing techniques, along with the compact implementation of variable-base Armstrong numbers using a functional programming paradigm, highlight the insights and education obtained by polyglot developers from this article.

by Lubos Kolouch

Lubos writing style contains excellent quality, idiomatic code and brief, easily-understood explanations of the different ways to break down difficult logical or enough to solve complicated mathematical problems, so they are accessible to all (even to those with no programming experience).

by W Luis Mochan

W. Luis Mochan has demonstrated his expertise by providing concise code that uses very little coding space. He created very efficient single and double lines of code (Perl) for each of the weekly challenge entry solutions. The way he approached Armstrong Numbers with a dynamic array that uses rolling bases, rather than normal division to calculate base conversion points, is astoundingly creative, instructional and well documented.

by Matthias Muth

The professional quality of Matthias's solution to the Perl Weekly Challenge is evidenced by the exceptional level of detail. Clearly, the README describes both the underlying logic as well as the algorithms used. The actual code is very idiomatic, clean and well-structured. This represents an excellent example of good software engineering practices and is a great resource for the community to learn from.

by Packy Anderson (PACKY)

Packy provides some ways to think about how to tackle the Perl Weekly Challenge. His approach is well-organised and very interesting. What stands out most is how much time he spends comparing Perl, Raku, Python and Elixir implementations to help the reader understand their differences. The way he explains each solution with examples is very effective, and it provides an excellent way for programmers looking to improve their skills with strings and scripts.

by Peter Campbell Smith

Peter puts a high value on creating code that uses clear, easy-to-read, well-maintained, and easy-to-write code rather than using complicated, convoluted, and multifaceted configurations. This makes the blog post very accessible to all levels of developers. It contains additional detail, educational material, and information in the public domain that should be of use to the developer community. There are also multiple edge cases addressed in this blog, and a comprehensive analysis of the data will make it very easy for the reader to follow through the examples provided.

by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE)

This blog covers Perl Weekly Challenge 379's solutions for string manipulation and narcissistic numbers in several different languages. Here, Roger, compares implementations of the same problem in Perl, Lua, PostScript, and Rust, illustrating how they each offer different approaches to performance optimisation and memory allocation. Overall, this approach allows him to provide great practical insight to readers on how the languages differ in these two areas.

by Simon Green (SGREEN)

This post presents an extremely entertaining and informative dual-language analysis of Weekly Challenge #379, as well as an entertainingly framed musical presentation. In addition, the juxtaposition of the neatness of the Python loop construct with the traditional method of manipulating strings in Perl helps provide clear, easy-to-follow solutions to challenging technical questions, particularly when dealing with the conversion of multiple digit bases for Armstrong Numbers.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

Great CPAN modules released last week.

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