It’s been a while since Perlbuzz.com has been up and running. Time for me empty the queue of the last two years of Twitter postings.
These links are collected from the
Perlbuzz Twitter feed.
If you have suggestions for news bits, please mail me at
andy@perlbuzz.com.
Object::Util is a set of methods for working with classes and objects (blogs.perl.org)
MetaCPAN now supports links to your project’s IRC channel (blogs.perl.org)
“… but I do not want to use any modules.” (perlhacks.com)
What exactly is the Perl Community? (neilb.org)
Perl Foundation to take part in GNOME Outread Program for Women (news.perlfoundation.org)
Python 3: Threat or menace? (radar.oreilly.com)
Understanding shellshock and Perl (perltricks.com)
Dave Cross on Perl’s problems (perlhacks.com)
Test::More has lots of crazy new development that’s breaking my modules (blogs.perl.org)
CPAN Testers and prereq reporting (blogs.perl.org)
Extended Rules to support modern Perl in the Atom symbols view package (blogs.perl.org)
How to use postfix dereferencing in Perl 5.20+ (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
Perl 5.20 fixes taint problems with locale (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
PerlWizard is a free wizard for automatic Perl software code generation using simple forms (rtbaileyphd.com)
Devops in the cloud with Perl (blogs.perl.org)
Neutralize Shellshock by patching bash with Perl (perltricks.com)
Booking.com donates another $60K to Perl 5 development (news.perlfoundation.org)
Security dangers of creating hashes from functions that return lists. (blog.gerv.net)
Final Devel::Cover grant report (blogs.perl.org)
Hello berrybrew, the Strawberry Perl version manager (perltricks.com)
Building Ansible modules with Perl and Mojolicious (marcus.nordaaker.com)
A Perl interface to the Hacker News API (neilb.org)
Synchronizing Opera bookmarks with Perl, Org and git (blogs.perl.org)
Which Perl modules are loaded into memory? (perlmaven.com)
uni helps you find Unicode characters. (rjbs.manxome.org)
How to remember ./configure script arguments a year later. (catonmat.net)
Fatpacking your scripts with fatten (blogs.perl.org)
Nominate Perl heroes for the 2014 White Camel Awards (blogs.perl.org)
Perl 5.21.5 has been released (metacpan.org)
Perl’s versatile split() function (perltricks.com)
Computed labels with next, last and redo (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
Devel::DidYouMean intercepts failed function calls and suggests an alternative: (metacpan.org)
Managing boilerplate code with Import::Base (blogs.perl.org)
How to process command line arguments with Getopt::Long (perlmaven.com)
London Perl Workshop roundup (blogs.perl.org)
How to embed function calls in Perl strings (leonerds-code.blogspot.com)
Promoting Perl through writing articles (blogs.perl.org)
Minion is a job queue for Mojolicious (blogs.perl.org)
How to read a password on the command line (perlmaven.com)
Quick tour of Imager’s capabilities (blogs.perl.org)
Always quotemeta when regex matching against files (blog.nu42.com)
Getting started with Perl 6 one-liners (perltricks.com)
Perl::Critic has a new home (blogs.perl.org)
Email::MIME::Kit v3 will fix-and-or-break your code (rjbs.manxome.org)
Using Minion with a REST API (blogs.perl.org)
An inside look at the Perl Foundation’s budget process (news.perlfoundation.org)
24 Pull Requests starts up again soon. (24pullrequests.com)
It’s time for the annual Perl Advent Calendars (lenjaffe.com)
Controlling Firefox from Perl (perltricks.com)
A proposed convention for to-do lists on CPAN (neilb.org)
2014 White Camel Awards (blogs.perl.org)
brian d foy talks about Perl recruiting (blogs.perl.org)
Great CPAN modules released last week (niceperl.blogspot.co.uk)
Great introduction to searching source code with ack by @2shortplanks. The power user examples are fantastic. (perladvent.org)
Perl special variables explained with examples (edusagar.com)
Debugging regexes with Regexp::Debugger (blog.twoshortplanks.com)
Asynchronous programming with AnyEvent (perladvent.org)
The popularity of Perl in 2014 (szabgab.com)
Use capturing or m//g when you know what you want to keep. Use split() when you know what you want to throw away. (perl.plover.com)
A use for scalar reverse (maybe) (learning-perl.com)
A recap of Paul Johnson’s work on Devel::Cover (news.perlfoundation.org)
What’s new on CPAN, December 2014 (perltricks.com)
Imagine a list of useful ways you can help newcomers to Perl. Correcting their spelling of “PERL” is not on it.
Perl serializers: What to use when (blogs.perl.org)
How to make your first contribution to Perl (nbezzala.blogspot.ca)
Always do pull requests in branches (neilb.org)
Extracting from HTML with Mojolicious (perltricks.com)
A Higher Order Idea stolen from Ramda.js (varlogrant.blogspot.com)
The best of what’s new on CPAN 2014 (perltricks.com)
Don’t use named lexical subroutines (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
How to create a grammar in Perl 6 (perltricks.com)
What should be in a README? (blogs.perl.org)
How were the distros for the Pull Request Challenge decided? (neilb.org)
What is the Perl QA Hackathon 2015 and why should I care? (blogs.perl.org)
How to set up a development Perl environment with plenv (dagolden.com)
Mangling SQL data with Yertl (blogs.perl.org)
If you use Perl hashes, you need to understand autovivification. (perlmaven.com)
Perl 6 for mere mortals (slideshare.net)
Four things that happened in PHP while you weren’t looking (radar.oreilly.com)
What’s new on CPAN, January 2015 (perltricks.com)
Time::Moment is a speedy alternative to DateTime (perltricks.com)
Perl 6, COBOL and rational numbers (blogs.perl.org)
Build a reddit bot with Perl (perltricks.com)
Review of “Penetration Testing With Perl” (perlhacks.com)
How to find YAPC::NA news (blogs.perl.org)
Removing AUTOLOAD from CGI.pm (blogs.perl.org)
Introducing Perl 6’s “gradual typing” (blogs.perl.org)
Perl 5.18 adds character class set operations (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
Facebook group for Perl-related jobs (facebook.com)
Three hackathons at YAPC::NA 2015 (news.perlfoundation.org)
Hello perldoc, productivity booster (perltricks.com)
Socket timeout made easy (blog.booking.com)
Announcing Statocles static site generator (blogs.perl.org)
Managing SQL data with Yertl (blogs.perl.org)
The Perl Foundation will not be part of Google Summer of Code this year. (blogs.perl.org)
How to debug a test that fails inconsistently (blog.urth.org)
Creating bar graphs with GD::Graph (perlmaven.com)
Open Source Bridge call for proposals ends March 7th at midnight (opensourcebridge.org)
JSON::XS is 57 times faster than JSON (perlmaven.com)
Why I donated to the Perl QA hackathon (blogs.perl.org)
GPS and Perl (perltricks.com)
Adding online code badges to your projects (onionstand.blogspot.ca)
What happened with Perl in February? (martian.org)
Ovid fights fake books on Amazon (blogs.perl.org)
Test::More needs people to test it (blogs.perl.org)
Combining the Jasmine testing framework and Dancer (techblog.babyl.ca)
How to load modules conditionally (perlancar.wordpress.com)
Barbie’s year of CPAN uploads (blogs.perl.org)
Tiny games with Perl 6 (blogs.perl.org)
gzipping data directly from Perl (perltricks.com)
Interacting with PAUSE from the command line (perlancar.wordpress.com)
Rebuilding Cleveland Perl Mongers (blogs.perl.org)
Three awesome Perl events in NYC this spring/summer (perltricks.com)
What’s new on CPAN, March 2015 (perltricks.com)
A preview of Perl 5.22 (perltricks.com)
Simple ways to download many web pages with Perl (perlmaven.com)
What’s coming up in Perl 5.22? (perltricks.com)
YAPC::NA master classes include Dave Rolsky’s Introduction to Go (yapcna.org)
Creating DuckDuckGo instant answers with Perl (perltricks.com)
Template Toolkit vs. Text::Handlebars (varlogrant.blogspot.com)
Use Perl 5.20’s subroutine signatures (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
Why you should never call subroutines with an ampersand (perlhacks.com)
The five C’s of good documentation (openbedrock.blogspot.com)
allperlbooks.com is an exhaustive inventory of what looks like every Perl book published
Getting started with MongoDB and Perl (perlmaven.com)
Microsoft Visual Studio now includes Perl 6 syntax support (blogs.perl.org)
Explaining the Schwartzian Transform (varlogrant.blogspot.com)
Plotting the CPAN river (neilb.org)
Significant improvements in Perl::Lint (news.perlfoundation.org)
Parsing Perl 5 pod with Perl 6 (perltricks.com)
How to use Perl v5.20’s subroutine signatures (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
How we spent two days making Perl faster (blog.booking.com)
The Guard module helps protect against inadvertant side-effects in your code. (perltricks.com)
Using Perl and MySQL to automatically respond to retweets on Twitter (scriptingmysql.wordpress.com)
URL routing with PSGI (perlmaven.com)
Modules with both Build.PL and Makefile.PL are a bad thing (neilb.org)
The dangers of the <> operator, and Perl 5.22’s safe version (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
New features in Perl 5.22 (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
Perl has built-in temp files (rjbs.manxome.org)
Perl 5.22 has been released (metacpan.org)
First meeting of Detroit.PM is tonight (meetup.com)
Should there be bounties for fixing CPAN modules? (blogs.perl.org)
Testing AJAX APIs with Perl (varlogrant.blogspot.com)
Testing and validating HTML templates (blogs.perl.org)
Perl 5.22 adds hexadecimal floating point literals (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
P5Pigs, a fantastic Perl-based parody of “War Pigs” (youtube.com)
What I learned at Perl MiniConf (blogs.perl.org)
Why is it “very bad practice” to override new() when using Moose? (stackoverflow.com)
Basic authentication with LWP::UserAgent (perlmaven.com)
What’s new on CPAN, June 2015 (perltricks.com)
The seven steps to Perl mastery (blogs.perl.org)
Host discovery with broadcast and echo (perltricks.com)
Don’t use $a and $b outside of sort, not even for examples. (perlmaven.com)
Data structure design for fast lookup (perlmaven.com)
Stupid open() tricks (perltricks.com)
UTF-8 & Perl (upasana.me)
Culling my CPAN modules (perlhacks.com)
Perl::ToPerl6 released to CPAN (blogs.perl.org)
Noirin Plunkett has passed away (blogs.perl.org)
What language should I learn? (varlogrant.blogspot.com)
Masking images with Imager (blogs.perl.org)
A simple card game in Perl 6 (blogs.perl.org)
Getting started with Perl 6 (blogs.perl.org)
P6SGI: Perl 6 Web Service Gateway Interface (blogs.perl.org)
Refactoring very old Perl 5 in Perl 6 (blogs.perl.org)
Sounding out complex statements (learning-perl.com)
Do something for CPAN Day 2015 (blogs.perl.org)
Fun with Catalyst and Heroku (blogs.perl.org)
What’s happening to ActiveState after the sale of Stackato to HP? (activestate.com)
Benchmarking index() and regex in Perl 6 (blogs.perl.org)
What’s your favorite CPAN module? (blogs.perl.org)
Love for Perl unites diverse community (opensource.com)
CPAN turns 20 (blogs.perl.org)
The Perl NOC is looking for volunteers to help maintain perl.org systems. (log.perl.org)
I am unlikely to move to Perl6 (varlogrant.blogspot.com)
Writing DuckDuckGo plugins just got easier (perltricks.com)
Simple, secure backups with Perl (perltricks.com)
Check your DuckDuckGo cheatsheets with Perl (perltricks.com)
A video-to-song converter in Perl6. (blogs.perl.org)
Recapping the 10th, final YAPC::Asia Tokyo (@lestrrat/the-10th-and-final-yapc-asia-tokyo-6bf15dae1ab4″>medium.com)
A glossary of CPAN terminology (neilb.org)
Data serialization in Perl (perlmaven.com)
Geocoding with Perl and Google Maps (plainblackguy.tumblr.com)
Community Heroes: Liz and Wendy (news.perlfoundation.org)
A comparison of date manipulation modules (blogs.perl.org)
CPAN Testers is back (blog.cpantesters.org)
Handy tools to view a module’s docs and source from the command line (perlancar.wordpress.com)
The joy of prefetch (perlhacks.com)
Activating Perl 6 highlighting in vim (perltricks.com)
How to send verification emails using Mojolicious (perltricks.com)
Take a spin with Dancer, the lightweight Perl web app framework (opensource.com)
CPAN dependencies and the river model (neilb.org)
Reports on YAPC::EU 2015 (devblog.xing.com) (upasana.me)
The return of the perl5-porters summaries (blogs.perl.org)
What do Perl and Go have in common? (patshaughnessy.net)
What’s new on CPAN, September 2015 (perltricks.com)
RT tickets blocking the 2015 release of Perl 6 (rt.perl.org)
There’s a new Perl 6 home page (perl6.org)
Larry unveils Perl 6 (10zenmonkeys.com)
CPAN Testers needs your money (blogs.perl.org)
Building RPMs of CPAN modules (perlhacks.com)
How do you distinguish between an excellent Perl programmer and a mediocre one? (blog.builtinperl.com)
Display real-time data with Curses (perltricks.com)
How to trim PDF margins and edit metadata (dagolden.com)
Contributing to the open source Perl ecosystem (perlmaven.com)
Modern Perl for the unfrozen Paleolithic Perl programmer (slideshare.net)
Use subroutine signatures with anonymous subroutines (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
Things that won’t make it into the first release of Perl 6 (gist.github.com)
Perl 6 and CPAN (jdv79.blogspot.com)
Profiling and 100x speed improvement (perlmaven.com)
A gopher server in Perl 6 (blogs.perl.org)
Modern Perl, Fourth Edition is now available in print from Pragmatic Bookshelf (pragprog.com)
Professional scripts are a snap with Getopt::Long (perltricks.com)
Working on an IETF-level standard for TAP (github.com) (via @metacpan)
Five must-read books for Perl programmers (blog.builtinperl.com)
Why is XML::Simple discouraged? (stackoverflow.com)
High performance image resizing with Image::Scale (activestate.com)
Tim O’Reilly on the ripple effects of the Camel Book. (programmingperl.org)
Perl 6 problem solver tutorial (github.com)
How to determine exactly where your Perl program crashed, even in the middle of an expression. (blogs.perl.org)
Automated refactoring of perl with PPI (reddit.com)
What’s new on CPAN — October 2015 (perltricks.com)
The historical how and why of hash tables (perl.plover.com)
Nominate Perl heroes for the 2015 White Camel awards (blogs.perl.org)
What’s going on with YAPC::NA::2016? (news.perlfoundation.org)
Test::Some lets you selectively run only certain subtests. (techblog.babyl.ca)
OSCON 2016 has no Perl talk submissions yet. You can help. (blogs.perl.org)
Improved syntax highlighting in the Perl debugger (blogs.perl.org)
It’s the Perl 6 Advent Calendar (perl6advent.wordpress.com)
Perl 6 is fun (blog.urth.org)
Making the Larry Wall shirt (perltricks.com)
A survey of interactive Perl shells (shadow.cat)
Larry Wall announces the release of Perl 6 (perl6advent.wordpress.com)
Perl 6 has been released (perl6advent.wordpress.com)
Damian Conway reflects on the release of Perl 6 (blogs.perl.org)
How can you get started contributing to Perl 6? (programming.tudorconstantin.com)
The 7th edition of Learning Perl is underway. (learning-perl.com)
Improving the water quality of the CPAN river (neilb.org)
Why would you want to use Perl 6? Here’s a feature list. (wendyga.wordpress.com)
The CPAN Pull Request Challenge for 2016 (neilb.org)
CPAN authors, check your inbox for email about the Pull Request Challenge (blogs.perl.org)
Email address validation using regexes (perlmaven.com)
Easy PSGI (perlhacks.com)
Which CPAN distros have a GitHub repo? (neilb.org)
The more a CPAN distro is used, the more open issues it has (neilb.org)
A first spin with Perl 6 on Windows (nu42.com)
Exploring Perl 6: Numeric types (friedo.com)
Perl presence at OSCON 2016 (blogs.perl.org)
What’s new on CPAN: December 2015 (perltricks.com)
Making your CPAN distribution contributor-friendly (neilb.org)
Adventures in Perl 6 (blogs.perl.org)
2015 White Camel award winners: (blogs.perl.org)
Operations on value pairs in Perl (perlmaven.com)
YAPC::NA 2016 will be in Orlando June 19-24 (twitter.com)
New features in Perl 5.24 (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
CPAN Weekly is an announcement mailing list about useful modules on CPAN (cpan-weekly.org)
A handy command line tool to show you a dashboard of your GitHub projects (dagolden.com)
YAPC::NA::2016 call for speakers (yapcna.org)
lcpan is an application to manage your local CPAN mirror. (perlancar.wordpress.com)
Testing Git::Repository against 500 versions of Git (blogs.perl.org)
Using Perl::Tidy to beautify your code and keep it consistent. (perlmaven.com)
Please test the DateTime 1.22 trial release (blog.urth.org)
YAPC::NA Q&A (news.perlfoundation.org)
Should CPANRatings be removed from MetaCPAN? (github.com)
Perl 6: Why people are so excited (youtube.com) (first three minutes of audio are bad)
What is the Perl Core? (perltricks.com)
Super easy SSL certificates for Mojolicious apps (blogs.perl.org)
Refactoring with PPIx::Refactor (blogs.perl.org)
Random contributors are great (blogs.perl.org)
New to Perl? Come to The Perl Conference in Orlando for only $50. (yapcna.org)
Tracking database performance with DBI logging and profiling (blog.afoolishmanifesto.com)
Improving program speed with subroutine memoization (perlmaven.com)
How the CPAN works (blogs.perl.org)
Perl-powered quadcopters, tonight at Milwaukee Perl Mongers (meetup.com)
PerlModules.net lets you track changes to your favorite Perl modules in CPAN. (perlmodules.net)
Why Perl 6 is slow, and what you can do to help (blogs.perl.org)
Ricardo Signes is stepping down as Perl 5 pumpking. (nntp.perl.org)
Lexical $_ and autoderef have been removed in Perl 5.24 (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
When you get a chance, thank @rjbs for his 4.5 years of service as Perl 5 Pumpking.
Discouraging the use of HTTP::Cookies (nntp.perl.org)
The new Perl 5 Pumpking is @PerlSawyer (twitter.com)
Tributes to @rjbs for his work as Perl 5 Pumpking (blogs.perl.org)
Sawyer X on his new job as Pumpking. (blogs.perl.org)
Big recap of the QA Hackathon and what got worked on (blogs.perl.org)
Overhauling the PAUSE module list permission system (neilb.org)
Are there metrics behind the assertion that “most of us use [MetaCPAN] to find CPAN modules”? (blogs.perl.org)
Perl 5.24.0 has been released (perlnews.org)
Test2/Test::Builder should be released today (blogs.perl.org)
Why I try to avoid Perl’s punctuation variables (blogs.perl.org)
YAPC::NA 2016 schedule is now available. (yapcna.org)
Test2+Test-Simple released (blogs.perl.org)
What’s new on CPAN April 2016 (perltricks.com)
p5p Mailing List summary May 10-18 (blogs.perl.org)
I just submitted a ticket for a Perl module that hasn’t been updated in 17 years. (rt.cpan.org)