What's happening with Perl in the last week.
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The Perl community has a long tradition of packaging up tips and module reviews as the prizes in an Advent calendar that unfolds over the month of December. Each day you get to learn something new as a treat. Some embrace the Christmas theme and…
The Perl ShopWhether you are into Dancer, Mojolicous, Perl 6 (#Raku), or Perl itself, there's an Advent calendar that would welcome your contributions.
In the Northern Hemisphere the trees are turning colorful and it's well into the Fall Conference Season for 2018. Although it's Fall from our perspective, we'll cover conferences from both hemispheres…but so far the ones we're aware of are…
The Perl ShopWe've updated our 'Fall Conference Season, 2018' to include mention of the soon to happen London Perl Workshop (LPW).
The big news this week in the Perl community was TPC Glasgow (formerly YAPC::EU). I was unable to make it: a pity, as Scotland is on my bucket list. However, a number of attendees journaled their experiences. Plus Shadowcat Systems has published a…
The Perl ShopWe've updated our 'The Perl Conference, Glasgow, 2018 Roundup' to include a link to the playlist of 60 individual talk videos that Shadowcat kindly provided.
If you write any software package, you have to document it. This simple truth drives more than few developers into despair. But there is also a way to craft good documentation and make the writing of it a useful part of the development. This is the…
The Perl ShopIn Part 5 of kephra lk's series on Perl6::Math::Matrix he describes the choices made for how best to document that module, and introduces the concept of Documentation Driven Development and its benefits over Test Driven Development.
On behalf of the development team, it brings me great pleasure to announce the Diwali release of the Official Specification of the Raku Perl 6 programming language. Please see the PDF of our Release Brochure for all the details:…
While writing plugins we can do something: But I prefer to keep my sturtup sub clean. Thus I route to controller's action: Doing so I need to check in my plugin passed value. Is it sub or shortcut auth#check? And to simplify checking I implement…
The Perl ShopKES offers a lesson in configuring a plugin's actions in Mojolicous.
This book is about Perl 6, a programming language of the Perl family. It covers many basic and in-depth topics of the language and provides the initial knowledge you need to start working with Perl 6. The book does not require any previous…
The Perl ShopAndrew Shitov announces the release of his 'Perl 6 at a Glance' book as a freely available PDF or EPUB.
Welcome to “What's new on CPAN”, a curated look at last month's new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure. Enjoy! Send Avro messages to Apache Kafka with Kafka::Producer::Avro Authenticate with the Azure Active…
The Perl ShopDavid Farrell pulls out the more interesting module updates at CPAN last month, such as Pavel Andryushin's Net::Google::Drive, a Google drive client, or Ed J's JSON::Transform, which uses transformation operators to rewrite JSON structures.
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