New features in Perl 5.40

Just in case you missed it, a list of new features in Perl 5.40. Nothing mind blowing but all appreciated.

CPAN Testers 400k mark

Just hit 400k submitted test results on the CPAN Testers leaderboard, exciting times.

New Features in Perl

I'm pretty late but I've been following along with the Perl advent calendar again last year. Brian D Foy put together a nice article on some new features that have been added to Perl recently you may have missed, and there were some other excellent articles.

Building Perl modules by hand

Two Perl posts in a row, but I was catching up on my Perl Advent calendar and realized I had never built a module by hand before, always relying on cpan or cpanm. It's not too hard and might save you one day.

Function signatures in Perl

I'm finally getting a chance to play with them and they seem great. Not the old prototypes, but brand new spiffy ones!

  sub some_function($a, $b) { 
  return $a + $b;
}
  

I think promises and futures are next on my Perl updating adventure

Some Perl advent calendar links from 2017

I'm a little behind, oy! But the 2017 advent calendar was great.
Automatically creating db classes with dbicdump
Also found a link to this 2002 overview of params validation

Perl 7 on hold

I had thought Perl 7 was imminent but it looks like the Perl 5 forces live to fight another day, the same releases will be made but currently still in the Perl 5 line.

Indirect object notation going byebye in Perl 7

Long awaited and I hate it but still bittersweet somehow - the old way of doing things reminds me of a simpler time, when code was code and filehandles were . . . I still don't really understand what filehandles are.

A gentle introduction to Perl 6

A fine slide deck. I think in 10-20 years, Perl 6 will still be going strong. Or Perl 7 at any rate.

CPAN Testers - Platforms needed

The Perl community needs some help folks - here's the article.

During CPAN Day, unsurprisingly, there were quite a number of CPAN Testers reports (37764 in 1 day, which although 10k higher than the average, wasn't the highest we've seen in a day, that was 47929 back in January). One aspect of which I wanted to see was, how many different OSes were being tested? The subject also cropped on the mailing list, thanks to Dean Hamstead, as to which OSes are undertested, which we would really love to see more reports for. Of the testing that has been done over the last few months, the following popular OSes could use a bit more testing. So if you have a spare box and are looking to get involved with CPAN Testers, one of the following would be very gratefully appreciated:

• Solaris
• Irix
• Windows (Cygwin)
• NetBSD
• FreeBSD
• OpenBSD

I'm getting my Cygwinsmokers back into working order, and am working on the BSD angle. Will gladly run Solaris on SPARC given the hardware.

Object::Util, a useful module

Perl indistinguishable from rubbish

Poor Perl. You really do look like line noise sometimes.

This pilot fish is working his first job as a web developer -- and it's also the first time he isn't in an office full of fellow techies.

"I was teaching myself Perl, and needed to print out some code," says fish. "I printed it, and when I went to the printer, the output tray was empty. . . .

Happy Birthday Perl!

MPB writes about it.

Wonder why Perl still doesn't have subroutine signatures?

Come to this talk on Wednesday night.

CPAN Testers updated

Right here. It's a much easier page that shows you what to do to set up a smoker.

Cleaning up your CPAN directory

The Perl Monks speak

You can always delete .cpan/build and .cpan/sources, which is where the bulk lives.

I have been wondering this for weeks! Good thing I remembered about Google existing and searched for the answer.

Modern Perl version 2 is out

A fine book.

A little sybperl history

Oh Sybase, how I miss thee! Rarely do I see you in my new job.

Strawberry Perl 5.12 is out

I've downloaded on my test system, we'll see about moving it to production in a few days.

Software as removing friction