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CPAN (63)
Code craft (34)
Community (44)
Conferences (20)
Data munging (4)
Databases (3)
Documentation (2)
Interviews (7)
Opinion (25)
Perl 5 (61)
Perl 6 (25)
Perl Foundation (23)
Programmers (2)
Rakudo (5)
Regexes (2)
Tools (26)
Web (5)
Windows (6)

Advocacy

There's only one useful way to handle your detractors October 06, 2011
Stand up for your communities and projects April 26, 2011
Google Code-In brings fresh blood to the Perl and Parrot communities November 15, 2010
Progressing vs. leapfrogging November 14, 2010
White House releases open source code April 22, 2010
Updates to perl-begin.org July 27, 2009
Celebrating women in Perl on Ada Lovelace Day March 24, 2009
How to write an announcement for your software project March 22, 2009
Perl gratitude, 2008 November 27, 2008
Is learning Perl the hard way the easy way? October 05, 2008
Richard Dice trumpets Perl to the press August 29, 2008
Why do designers fail to adopt Perl? August 08, 2008
Perl must decentralize, diversify and colonize May 05, 2008
Perl is not going away April 11, 2008

Business

Booking.com puts their money where their infrastructure is December 22, 2008
More companies openly supporting Perl projects March 05, 2008
Which language to inflict on clients? January 08, 2008
Where is Perl 6? The question that won't die December 26, 2007
Wanted: Dark Lord of Destruction December 13, 2007

CPAN

ack 2.28 has been released with new color charts March 18, 2019
Announcing SQL::Tiny March 10, 2019
Use Getopt::Long even if you don't think you need to August 03, 2018
ack 2.24 is released, speeding up common cases June 21, 2018
Avoid the vagueness of dies_ok() in Test::Exception June 28, 2017
Dueling code wizardry is one of the things I love most about Perl June 27, 2017
Improve your test logs with simple distro diagnostics June 11, 2017
Perl::Critic 1.128 fixes bugs and works with Perl 5.26 June 11, 2017
Perl::Critic releases its first new developer release in 21 months May 26, 2017
Speed up DBI reads by binding variables directly April 27, 2017
ack 2.18 has been released; ack 3 starting development March 24, 2017
ack 2.16 has been released March 10, 2017
Higher-level list utility functions with List::UtilsBy February 13, 2017
All about the new Test2 framework and how it will help your tests May 30, 2016
Template Toolkit's DEFAULT directive does not short-circuit September 15, 2014
Test::WWW::Mechanize adds scraping functions April 13, 2012
Finding a lost dog's owner with Perl and WWW::Mechanize November 27, 2011
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel is dead. Long live Excel::Writer::XLSX. October 18, 2011
Notes from Damian Conway's sessions at OSCON 2011 September 20, 2011
ack 1.96 released, now ignores minified Javascript files September 19, 2011
Nurturing new open source contributors August 08, 2011
Run PHP tests in your Perl test suite August 17, 2010
Artistic License 2.0 makes dual-license boilerplate unnecessary June 15, 2010
Help keep the world safe from SQL injection February 06, 2010
Devel::NYTProf 3.0 is out, more mindblowing than ever December 28, 2009
Advent calendars galore December 03, 2009
Christmas brings the RJBS Advent Calendar November 24, 2009
ack 1.90 released September 07, 2009
Community contributions for those who don't feel rockstarry enough yet August 15, 2009
Help end licensing under “same terms as Perl itself” July 31, 2009
Introducing CPANHQ July 06, 2009
Fixing old bugs in Template::Timer and Perl::Critic::Bangs March 07, 2009
Mac OS X Security Update 2009-001 might break your Perl February 16, 2009
Should Perl 6 use the CPAN? February 07, 2009
CPAN Testers gives module authors new flexibility December 08, 2008
Microsoft will support CPAN authors with free access to Windows machines December 07, 2008
Moving forward with Git and Perl December 07, 2008
There is no “best” in software December 01, 2008
CPAN Testers considered useful November 26, 2008
A case for Catalyst November 10, 2008
The evolution of Perl frameworks November 10, 2008
Speak up for Catalyst November 05, 2008
Devel::NYTProf continues its march of awesomeness November 03, 2008
Dist::Zilla eases management of your CPAN distributions October 27, 2008
Creating a module distribution with Module::Starter October 19, 2008
Write your code like it's going on CPAN October 15, 2008
The relation between CPAN Testers and quality, or, Why CPAN Testers sucks if you don't need it September 04, 2008
Creating Excel files with Perl August 11, 2008
Devel::NYTProf will knock your socks off July 16, 2008
Optimizing file searches with File::Find::Rule May 14, 2008
Big improvements in mini-CPAN tools May 05, 2008
How fresh is the CPAN? May 03, 2008
Oslo QA hackathon wrap-up April 11, 2008
Searching CPAN from Firefox April 06, 2008
Rethinking the interface to CPAN April 05, 2008
rt.cpan.org source released March 15, 2008
Popular Perl packages in Debian February 21, 2008
Show me the output before I install it! January 30, 2008
Make your own mini CPAN January 21, 2008
Updated distribution meta-information available at search.cpan.org December 24, 2007
64-bit Macs may have CPAN build problems December 11, 2007
Installing a module? Do you feel lucky? November 17, 2007
Organizing Tests with Test::Class August 21, 2007

Code craft

Perl::Critic finds annoying little bugs in your code. January 04, 2012
Develop sensible coding habits on the path to true Laziness December 16, 2010
ack 1.94 released November 15, 2010
Run PHP tests in your Perl test suite August 17, 2010
To InformationWeek re: static code analysis May 04, 2010
Help keep the world safe from SQL injection February 06, 2010
The horrible bug your command line Perl program probably has November 09, 2009
What editor/IDE do you use for Perl development? October 21, 2009
ack 1.90 released September 07, 2009
Hide your unnecessary details from the user August 11, 2009
Attention all Vim-using Perl programmers June 02, 2009
Perl::Critic is looking for help January 14, 2009
How to spot bad Perl code, 2008 edition December 19, 2008
Dist::Zilla eases management of your CPAN distributions October 27, 2008
Write your code like it's going on CPAN October 15, 2008
Writing a crawler with WWW::Mechanize September 19, 2008
Devel::NYTProf will knock your socks off July 16, 2008
Schwern on skimmable code June 17, 2008
Scrabble cheating with Perl one-liners June 02, 2008
Technical debt: Seek first to understand June 01, 2008
New cross-language test automation lists, feeds and classes announced May 29, 2008
Use Getopt::Long even if you don't think you need to May 25, 2008
Pragmatic Programmer on estimating May 17, 2008
Technical debt in your file headers March 26, 2008
Don't trust yourself or your code March 24, 2008
The worst way to shorten names March 05, 2008
How not to do a Changes file February 27, 2008
The rules of Optimization Club February 19, 2008
Annoyance-driven development February 15, 2008
Fluent numbers with Acme::Numbers January 27, 2008
The man who couldn't refactor January 21, 2008
Designing too far into the future January 15, 2008
Superstition has no place in programming January 04, 2008
LWP::Simple is beautiful code January 03, 2008

Community

Dueling code wizardry is one of the things I love most about Perl June 27, 2017
Before you write a patch, write an email April 27, 2012
Mark Jason Dominus on giving fish November 02, 2011
There's only one useful way to handle your detractors October 06, 2011
Nurturing new open source contributors August 08, 2011
Stand up for your communities and projects April 26, 2011
Think, for Perl's sake November 29, 2010
Passing of Randy Kobes November 09, 2010
Perl gets modern community blogging platform at blogs.perl.org November 20, 2009
Don't optimize for yourself in communities September 04, 2009
Community contributions for those who don't feel rockstarry enough yet August 15, 2009
Quickies from Wednesday, OSCON 2009 July 22, 2009
What should the world know about Perl? July 19, 2009
How to announce an event, or, awesome is not always self-evident June 23, 2009
Every day, we contribute to shaping our community June 07, 2009
What happens at a hackathon? April 06, 2009
Celebrating women in Perl on Ada Lovelace Day March 24, 2009
Get paid for working on Perl projects in Google Summer of Code 2009 March 21, 2009
Two advent calendars to choose from December 10, 2008
Speak up for Catalyst November 05, 2008
Developer optimization redux October 01, 2008
BarCamp Milwaukee 3 coming October 4th-5th August 12, 2008
Working to bring Perl to the Google App Engine July 23, 2008
Perl is an act of love July 16, 2008
YAPC::NA 2008 photo wrap-up June 23, 2008
YAPC::NA 2008 recap: The six-year-old version June 19, 2008
Perl must decentralize, diversify and colonize May 05, 2008
Oslo QA hackathon wrap-up April 11, 2008
Call for grant proposals, 2008 Q2 April 03, 2008
Perl is back at OSCON 2008 April 01, 2008
Help find students for Perl projects in Google Summer of Code 2008 March 18, 2008
rt.cpan.org source released March 15, 2008
LINSWAN: An acronym we can steal from Ruby March 10, 2008
More companies openly supporting Perl projects March 05, 2008
Sign up to help with Summer Of Code March 02, 2008
Interviews with Michaud & Dice February 15, 2008
Genealogy, web services and Perl February 07, 2008
First what in five years? January 02, 2008
Where is Perl 6? The question that won't die December 26, 2007
Perl birthday parties across North America December 20, 2007
Perl gratitude, 2007 November 22, 2007
Perl Survey results released November 12, 2007
Statistical views of open source projects on ohloh.net August 24, 2007
White Camels for 2007 August 13, 2007

Conferences

The great and mighty crowdsourced YAPC::NA 2012 recap list June 19, 2012
My YAPC::NA 2012 notes and recap June 19, 2012
YAPC::NA 2012 gets away from RTFM marketing July 20, 2011
My to-do list always grows post-OSCON July 24, 2009
Quickies from Wednesday, OSCON 2009 July 22, 2009
What should the world know about Perl? July 19, 2009
How to announce an event, or, awesome is not always self-evident June 23, 2009
Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2008 is underway October 11, 2008
BarCamp Milwaukee 3 coming October 4th-5th August 12, 2008
YAPC::NA 2008 photo wrap-up June 23, 2008
YAPC::NA 2008 recap: The six-year-old version June 19, 2008
My schedule for YAPC::NA 2008 May 23, 2008
YAPC::NA 2008 offers something for everyone April 25, 2008
WebGUI Users Conference announced for August 26-29, 2008 April 24, 2008
Perl is back at OSCON 2008 April 01, 2008
USENIX opens conference proceedings March 13, 2008
Submit talks for YAPC::Asia and Italian Perl Workshop February 20, 2008
Submit your talks for Chicago and Braga February 14, 2008
OSCON 2008 Call For Participation is now open January 14, 2008
Pittsburgh Perl Workshop fast approaching October 01, 2007

Data munging

Downloading video with Awk August 29, 2008
Creating Excel files with Perl August 11, 2008
Scrabble cheating with Perl one-liners June 02, 2008
Who's making bogus web requests? November 28, 2007

Databases

How to write a simple database-backed website with Perl modules Mason and Class::DBI May 16, 2008
The case of the blocking CREATE INDEX call April 29, 2008
How to: Create database columns that contain only digits January 13, 2008

Documentation

Google now returns code snippets March 31, 2008
How to: Document your code December 03, 2007

Interviews

All about the new Test2 framework and how it will help your tests May 30, 2016
Big interview with Damian Conway August 21, 2008
Interviews with Michaud & Dice February 15, 2008
Gerard Goossen talks about Kurila, a Perl 5 fork November 15, 2007
Andy Armstrong talks about the road to Test::Harness 3.00 November 07, 2007
Richard Dice talks about changes and projects at the Perl Foundation October 01, 2007
Perl::Critic: an interview with Chris Dolan September 14, 2007

Opinion

Mark Jason Dominus on giving fish November 02, 2011
There's only one useful way to handle your detractors October 06, 2011
Stand up for your communities and projects April 26, 2011
White House releases open source code April 22, 2010
Free Software Foundation helps no one with name-calling June 17, 2009
How to write an announcement for your software project March 22, 2009
There is no “best” in software December 01, 2008
Why do designers fail to adopt Perl? August 08, 2008
Perl must decentralize, diversify and colonize May 05, 2008
Open source is not piracy April 10, 2008
Rethinking the interface to CPAN April 05, 2008
TPF helps defend the Artistic License March 15, 2008
Good Perl code is the best form of evangelism March 01, 2008
Show me the output before I install it! January 30, 2008
The relationship between a language and its toolchain, and why Perl 6 scares the hell out of Adam Kennedy January 28, 2008
Your favorite language sucks January 26, 2008
Can dynamic languages scale? January 24, 2008
Which language to inflict on clients? January 08, 2008
Stop worrying and learn to love Perl 6 December 28, 2007
Why Perl 6 needs to be deemphasized and renamed December 27, 2007
Where is Perl 6? The question that won't die December 26, 2007
State of the Onion 2007: Let's go scripting December 07, 2007
Perl gratitude, 2007 November 22, 2007
Schwern has killed off Perl 5.5, and I thank him November 18, 2007
Evolution requires mutation October 11, 2007

Perl 5

for, map, grep and function calls autovivify arrayrefs February 04, 2020
Use Getopt::Long even if you don't think you need to August 03, 2018
Higher-level list utility functions with List::UtilsBy February 13, 2017
All about the new Test2 framework and how it will help your tests May 30, 2016
Perl::Critic finds annoying little bugs in your code. January 04, 2012
Notes from Damian Conway's sessions at OSCON 2011 September 20, 2011
The future of Perl 5 August 07, 2011
Perl 5.14 is now available May 14, 2011
ack 1.94 released November 15, 2010
Google Code-In brings fresh blood to the Perl and Parrot communities November 15, 2010
Progressing vs. leapfrogging November 14, 2010
Run PHP tests in your Perl test suite August 17, 2010
Vim 7.3 supports Perl 6, adds Perl 5 improvements August 15, 2010
Why roles in Perl are awesome July 27, 2010
How to shuffle a list in Perl May 28, 2010
Perl 5.12 released; Perl 5 under new release process April 28, 2010
What are you working on in Perl? April 23, 2010
Perl one-liner to sample your Mac's voices March 09, 2010
Devel::NYTProf 3.0 is out, more mindblowing than ever December 28, 2009
Perl 6 development does not detract from Perl 5 August 30, 2009
Perl coming to Android phones August 23, 2009
Updates to perl-begin.org July 27, 2009
Introducing CPANHQ July 06, 2009
Promote Perl 6 by saying “Perl 5” June 26, 2009
Attention all Vim-using Perl programmers June 02, 2009
What happens at a hackathon? April 06, 2009
Get paid for working on Perl projects in Google Summer of Code 2009 March 21, 2009
Perl 5 source repository now hosted in git December 23, 2008
Perl 5.8.9 is out December 16, 2008
“Higher-Order Perl” available for free download December 09, 2008
Moving forward with Git and Perl December 07, 2008
What's the state of Perl web frameworks? October 05, 2008
Hidden features of Perl October 02, 2008
Index of online articles from The Perl Journal September 17, 2008
Perl best administration practices September 10, 2008
Perl 5.8.9's perldelta needs your help September 08, 2008
The relation between CPAN Testers and quality, or, Why CPAN Testers sucks if you don't need it September 04, 2008
Red Hat's patch slows down overloading in Perl August 25, 2008
Working to bring Perl to the Google App Engine July 23, 2008
Help the Perl 5 wiki get to 1,000 entries May 18, 2008
Colons invalidate BEGIN and END blocks May 07, 2008
YAPC::NA 2008 offers something for everyone April 25, 2008
I wish I could use smart matching April 18, 2008
mod_perl now supports Perl 5.10 April 17, 2008
Tim Bunce debunks Perl myths March 17, 2008
Perl debuts in the Microsoft 3rd Annual Scripting Games February 17, 2008
Huge week on perl5-porters January 27, 2008
The future of Strawberry Perl January 27, 2008
Strawberry Perl is all-inclusive January 07, 2008
How to install and set up Strawberry Perl January 06, 2008
What people are saying about Perl 5.10 December 24, 2007
Strawberry Perl 5.10.0 now available December 23, 2007
Perl 5.10 now available December 18, 2007
ActiveState provides Windows binaries of Perl 5.10.0 December 18, 2007
64-bit Macs may have CPAN build problems December 11, 2007
Perl trumps Ruby and Erlang in the Wide Finder Project November 21, 2007
Perl 5.10.0 RC1 is now available November 18, 2007
Schwern has killed off Perl 5.5, and I thank him November 18, 2007
Gerard Goossen talks about Kurila, a Perl 5 fork November 15, 2007
Bind output variables in DBI for speed and safety November 14, 2007
Perl 5.10's first release candidate coming soon November 13, 2007

Perl 6

Notes from Damian Conway's sessions at OSCON 2011 September 20, 2011
Vim 7.3 supports Perl 6, adds Perl 5 improvements August 15, 2010
What are you working on in Perl? April 23, 2010
Advent calendars galore December 03, 2009
Perl 6 development does not detract from Perl 5 August 30, 2009
My to-do list always grows post-OSCON July 24, 2009
Promote Perl 6 by saying “Perl 5” June 26, 2009
Attention all Vim-using Perl programmers June 02, 2009
Get paid for working on Perl projects in Google Summer of Code 2009 March 21, 2009
Perl 6 stretches its wings, makes a milestone release February 27, 2009
Should Perl 6 use the CPAN? February 07, 2009
Database access in Perl 6 is coming along nicely December 05, 2008
Perl 6 apps today: November is a wiki written in Perl 6 August 28, 2008
How cool Perl 6 really is August 21, 2008
Ian Hague funds Perl 6 development through the Perl Foundation May 16, 2008
YAPC::NA 2008 offers something for everyone April 25, 2008
Tim Bunce debunks Perl myths March 17, 2008
Tell us how to do it, Andi! February 12, 2008
The relationship between a language and its toolchain, and why Perl 6 scares the hell out of Adam Kennedy January 28, 2008
Take a nibble of Perl 6 with a microarticle January 18, 2008
Why I love say January 01, 2008
Stop worrying and learn to love Perl 6 December 28, 2007
One view of what we've done in Perl 6 December 28, 2007
Why Perl 6 needs to be deemphasized and renamed December 27, 2007
Where is Perl 6? The question that won't die December 26, 2007

Perl Foundation

Perl 5.14 is now available May 14, 2011
Google Code-In brings fresh blood to the Perl and Parrot communities November 15, 2010
Get paid for working on Perl projects in Google Summer of Code 2009 March 21, 2009
Booking.com puts their money where their infrastructure is December 22, 2008
Richard Dice trumpets Perl to the press August 29, 2008
Perl Foundation wants to give you money to work on Perl projects July 01, 2008
Josh McAdams preaches in the press June 23, 2008
Ian Hague funds Perl 6 development through the Perl Foundation May 16, 2008
TPF wants your input on Q2 grant proposals May 01, 2008
Call for grant proposals, 2008 Q2 April 03, 2008
Help find students for Perl projects in Google Summer of Code 2008 March 18, 2008
Perl Foundation accepted in Google Summer of Code 2008 March 17, 2008
TPF helps defend the Artistic License March 15, 2008
Perl Foundation needs new members March 05, 2008
R.E.M. releases videos under Artistic License 2.0 February 16, 2008
Interviews with Michaud & Dice February 15, 2008
rt.cpan.org gets speed improvements February 14, 2008
Help the Perl Foundation choose a CRM system January 12, 2008
First what in five years? January 02, 2008
What people are saying about Perl 5.10 December 24, 2007
Perl 5.10 now available December 18, 2007
Richard Dice talks about changes and projects at the Perl Foundation October 01, 2007
White Camels for 2007 August 13, 2007

Programmers

Don't trust yourself or your code March 24, 2008
80% programmers November 26, 2007

Rakudo

My to-do list always grows post-OSCON July 24, 2009
Perl 6 stretches its wings, makes a milestone release February 27, 2009
Should Perl 6 use the CPAN? February 07, 2009
Database access in Perl 6 is coming along nicely December 05, 2008
YAPC::NA 2008 offers something for everyone April 25, 2008

Regexes

How to: Find all modules used in a tree February 07, 2008
Code broken by regex fixes in 5.10.0, or, why it's good to help test release candidates December 20, 2007

Tools

Announcing SQL::Tiny March 10, 2019
ack 2.24 is released, speeding up common cases June 21, 2018
Avoid the vagueness of dies_ok() in Test::Exception June 28, 2017
ack 2.18 has been released; ack 3 starting development March 24, 2017
ack 2.16 has been released March 10, 2017
All about the new Test2 framework and how it will help your tests May 30, 2016
ack 2.0 has been released April 19, 2013
vim-perl needs your help October 29, 2012
Low-tech high-speed OS X program launching July 19, 2010
Fixing my #1 bash annoyance July 19, 2010
Cool vim plugin of the day: surround.vim December 08, 2008
Use Getopt::Long even if you don't think you need to May 25, 2008
What commands do you run? April 16, 2008
ack 1.78 is out March 23, 2008
Use seq or jot to do repetitive numbering March 08, 2008
Devel::NYTProf is the hot new profiler in town March 05, 2008
Leopard cheat sheet February 14, 2008
How to: Find all modules used in a tree February 07, 2008
Getting lines from a website with GET and ack January 31, 2008
Put your work under version control today January 31, 2008
Vim tricks for Perl January 23, 2008
Make your own mini CPAN January 21, 2008
More vim goodies for Perl 5.10 January 21, 2008
Make vim support Perl 5.10 December 27, 2007
Share your dotfiles and check out others December 11, 2007
ctags 5.7 improves Perl support September 08, 2007

Web

When to use JPEG, when to use PNG November 12, 2008
How to write a simple database-backed website with Perl modules Mason and Class::DBI May 16, 2008
Google now returns code snippets March 31, 2008
Simple Apache/FastCGI/Catalyst configuration December 07, 2007
Who's making bogus web requests? November 28, 2007

Windows

Microsoft will support CPAN authors with free access to Windows machines December 07, 2008
Perl debuts in the Microsoft 3rd Annual Scripting Games February 17, 2008
The future of Strawberry Perl January 27, 2008
Strawberry Perl is all-inclusive January 07, 2008
How to install and set up Strawberry Perl January 06, 2008
Strawberry Perl 5.10.0 now available December 23, 2007