What's happening with Perl in the last week.
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David Farrell's Perl.com article Validating untrusted input: numbers got me thinking, specifically about the role of /d in sanitizing input. I am not going to talk here about looks_like_number(), because the referenced article covers it. The thing…
The Perl ShopTom Wyant expands on David Farrell's earlier article on validating numbers by taking a look at how to deal with Unicode numbers.
This evening, I enjoyed the New Year's fireworks display over the beautiful Prague skyline. Well, the bit of it that was between me and the fireworks, anyway. Rather than having its fireworks display at midnight, Prague puts it at 6pm on New Year's…
The Perl ShopJonathan Worthington lays out a road map for possible changes in 2019 including MoarVM optimizations, decreasing Rakudo startup time, 1.0 release for the Cro framework, and more work on the Comma IDE.
I'm working on a few projects right now, most notably one that helps me create a CPAN distribution so that I can create a Perl Lambda in the AWS environment. This has led me to some yak shaving exercises, most notably investigating how to check for…
The Perl ShopRob Lauer is working on creating a Perl serverless environment and ran into challenges. Specifically determining the dependency list when packaging a module. Rob runs through several options he tried, and asks the community for their recommendations.
Welcome to “What's new on CPAN”, a curated look at last month's new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure. Enjoy! Amazon::Credentials is an AWS credentials discoverer Migrate installed modules from one perl to another…
The Perl ShopDavid Farrell selects some interesting module updates from CPAN last month, such as Tom Molesworth's Database::Async that lets you run db queries in parallel, and Bryan Jurish's Unicruft that converts text from Unicode to simpler character sets.
The Perl ShopYAPC::Tokyo 2019 happens January 26, 2019. The theme is (per Google Translate) 'thank you for gratitude and reward.' They seem to have a healthy list of talks and sponsors.
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The Perl ShopThere may be more than one way to do it, but it can be nice to start with the solution that most of your colleagues have found works best, so share your experience by giving the modules that work well for you a ++ on MetaCPAN.
Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting from an experienced team of Perl devs #Agile (We RT Perl community news, and occasionally tweet about us.) The Perl Shop Retweeted Mohammad S Anwar Neil Bowers has compiled stats on CPAN uploads…
The Perl ShopNeil Bowers has compiled stats on CPAN uploads, showing the developers who have done so consistently. For example, Dave Rolsky's streak of monthly uploads for 18 years. Karen Etheridge's weekly for nearly 7 years. Or Mohammad's 500 days.
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