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by Jeffrey Thalhammer (THALJEF)

Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer, the author of Perl::Critic and Pinto is going to be interviewed on the FLOSS Weekly on March 26 at 8:30 Pacific Time. You can see him live.

Apparently even the organizers have missed the deadline.

September 19 through 21, 2013 in Keio University Hiyoshi Campus, Tokyo

by Joel Berger (JBERGER)

The new release of the Perl Data Language comes with an updated draft of the PDL book and an improved web site.

The promise of Marpa is that it will be very easy - almost free - to create new (programming) languages. What will that mean?

by brian d foy (BDFOY)

A few weeks ago brian d foy posted about the new crowd-founding site Catincan and how he wanted to try. This is the result. I hope more people will jump on the idea and start experimenting to getting funded for projects. At first I can imagine you'd try with relatively small projects, and if those are successful, then you can try with bigger ones.

by Dave Mitchell

Dave Mitchell reports that in the last 2 months he hardly had any time for the Perl 5 maintenance grant work.

by Barbie (BARBIE)

While testing might not be exciting for many, I think it is one of the most awesome areas in Perl. I am really glad Barbie and co. keep working on the CPAN Testers infrastructure and he keeps reporting.

by David Golden (DAGOLDEN)

Tests are just more code, but when it gets to testing, even the best programmers might revert to the ancient art of copy-paste. But this is David Golden. He did not want to repeat his code so he wrote a module called Test::Roo to make it easy to use roles in testing. (And the comments are also interesting to read.)

by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID)

For Test::Class::Moose users...

by David Golden (DAGOLDEN)

Providing feedback to module authors is a great way to encourage them to do more. Even if the feedback is only by up-voting their module on MetaCPAN. David Golden shows a way to do that automatically for all the modules you use.

by Tokuhiro Matsuno

A few weeks ago I posted a code snippet that does this, but Tokuhiro Matsuno went for the raw JSON input/output and he does not use the MetaCPAN::API module.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

In case you are interested in the distribution of the readers of the Perl Weekly and the Perl Maven site around the world, I published the data from Google Analytics and Bitly.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

Neil Bowers had another idea to create a mash-up of several sources of Perl-related news and integrate them in a single page.

by brian d foy (BDFOY)

brian d foy is looking for your recommendations for the three White Camel awardees for outstanding (non-code) contribution to the Perl community.

Nolan Joseph Axford keeps his series building a web application using Catalyst.

This is actually more bout Git than about Perl, but it can be quite useful for you!

One of the basics you need to learn before Perl 6 becomes useful to you.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

Introducing hashes. Just another part of the Perl Tutorial.

I know this is classic, but I still encounter students in my Perl training classes who are surprised the 'corporate standard' they saw being declared as 'not recommended'.

April 19, 2013, Arnhem, The Netherlands

April 20, 2013, Baltimore, DC, USA

May 25-26, 2013, Warsaw, Poland

June 3-5, 2013, Austin, Texas, USA