What's happening with Perl in the last week.
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Version 0.04 of SQL::Translator::Parser::OpenAPI has just been uploaded to CPAN. You can give it an OpenAPI 2 spec and it will generate a relational database from it. How is that useful? Normally when you want to make an information service, you'll…
The Perl ShopEd J has released a new version of SQL::Translator::Parser::OpenAPI, which helps you 'generate a relational database from an OpenAPI schema.'
A few days ago, one of the Perl Maven readers asked me about indexing in arrays in Perl, and then he was wondering if arrays that only have elements in some high index are sparse arrays? In other words if we have an array with a single value at…
The Perl ShopGabor Szabo explains how Perl makes use of memory for sparse arrays, and then shows how to use Devel::Size to verify it works as expected.
In this series of articles I reflect and expand on a talk I gave this year in Glasgow were I spoke about writing Perl 6 modules in general and my module in particular. Part I was about data types I used or wanted to use, because my approach is it…
The Perl Shopkephra lk (@kephra_lk) continues his series on Perl6::Math::Matrix, his module to 'create, compare, compute and measure 2D matrices' in Perl 6.
Mojolicious 8.0 released: Perl real-time web framework I'm excited to announce the release of Mojolicious 8.0 (Supervillain). This release marks the culmination of a 2 year development cycle, reaching its conclusion last week at Mojoconf in Norway.
The Perl ShopSebastian Riedel announces the 8.0 release of the Mojolicious web framework. He says 'this is probably our biggest release yet with 26 major features.'
The first public release! Code is now hosted in GitHub. Please see the instructions on how to install and run. The release features a renewed 'Routines' tab. Please read Timo's blog post to know how it compares to the previous profiler: The first…
The Perl ShopTimo offers the first public release of a Rakudo Perl 6 performance analysis tool developed under a Perl Foundation grant.
16.09.2018: YEF: Ctrl-Alt-Del (This is my personal account on the history of YEF. Other past or current members might have a different story) YEF (a meta-acronym for YAPC Europe Foundation, where YAPC stands for Yet Another Perl Conference) was…
The Perl Shopdomm describes what hasn't been working well with YAPC Europe Foundation (YEF) in recent years, and proposes a plan for building a replacement organization.
Released at 2018-08-31T06:32:35+0900 ProhibitUnusedImport: fix a false positive case about reporting unused imported variables. Perl::Critic::Policy::TooMuchCode::ProhibitExcessiveColons Perl::Critic::Policy::TooMuchCode::ProhibitLargeBlock - Find…
The Perl ShopAndy Lester (@perlbuzz) gives a mini-endorsement for Kang-min Liu's (@gugod) Perl::Critic::TooMuchCode, saying 'the unused constants policy is picking up all sorts of stuff in my codebase.'
The Grants Committee is accepting grant proposals all the time. We evaluate them every two months and another evaluation period is upon us. If you have an idea for doing some Perl work that will benefit the Perl community, please consider…
I recently received a bug report about installing Image::PNG::Libpng on Strawberry Perl. It was failing to install due to using the wrong C compiler. Up to version 0.44 of the module, I'd been checking for the presence of libpng using…
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