What's new on CPAN - May 2017

by David Farrell

cpan

trello

mpd

vmware

rpi

aws

clouddeploy

sqs

xgboost

A curated look at May's new CPAN uploads

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On Sigils

by David Farrell

development

Should programming languages use them?

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What's new on CPAN - April 2017

by David Farrell

cpan

pivotal

mastodon

hashicorp

pixabay

zopfli

io-framed

hyperscan

pcre2

jieba

try-tiny

fastpbkdf2

A curated look at April's new CPAN uploads

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Getting started with XS

by David Farrell

development

xs

extutils-makemaker

stdlib.h

rand

perlapi

xsubpp

A gentle introduction to Perl's C interface

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Thinking about Perl 6

by brian d foy

perl6

oreilly

interview

An Interview with Laurent Rosenfeld, author of Think Perl 6

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What's new on CPAN - March 2017

by David Farrell

cpan

braintree

zendesk

libxml2

putty

glib

lxc

fix

starch

megaport

websocket

web-assetlib

wurm

A curated look at March's new CPAN uploads

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AWS Cloudfront cache invalidation with Paws

by David Farrell

development

aws

cloudfront

s3

paws

Another useful AWS script built with Paws

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Track Module Changes While You Sleep

by brian d foy

cpan

perlmodules.net

module-extact-use

changes

Let Perlmodules.net do the work

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What's new on CPAN - February 2017

by David Farrell

cpan

facebook

taskwarrior

fitbit

foreman

hadoop

pdf

piper

proc-tored

git

raspberrypi

amazon

A curated look at February's new CPAN uploads

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Deploy a static website with AWS S3 and Paws

by David Farrell

development

aws

paws

s3

static-website

Paws is a comprehensive Perl distribution for AWS services

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What's new on CPAN - January 2017

by David Farrell

cpan

chipmunk

telegram

mop

qn

fitbit

pollux

1password

A curated look at January's new CPAN uploads

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Six more things I like about 6

by brian d foy

perl6

rat

return-value

perl-shop

failure

fmt

Perl 6 features worth spreading

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Laptop review: Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 (9365)

by David Farrell

hardware

dell

laptop

xps

Dell goes one better with this new 2-in-1

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What's new on CPAN - December 2016

by David Farrell

cpan

ansi

azure

blackboard

jira

redis

buddy-system

ulid

json-rpc

mongodb

confluence

diff

catalyst

dancer2

mojolicious

bokehjs

A curated look at December's new CPAN uploads

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Obscure Perl trick: single-quote separators

by David Farrell

development

ada

single-quote

namespace

trick

One of Perl's ancient artifacts

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Perl module names are filepaths - and that's all

by David Farrell

development

cpan

pause

cuckoo

module

package

perlmod

Understand how Perl loads code

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What's new on CPAN - November 2016

by David Farrell

cpan

azure

swagger

lobid

lumberjack

acme

cpan-testers

gvg

ajpeg

xlsx

mattermost

stomp

kingpin

mojolicious

catalyst

mce-hobo

kayako

A curated look at November's new CPAN uploads

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How to build a base module

by David Farrell

development

exporter

import-base

mastering-perl

Establish consistency and reduce boilerplate across your project

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I'm speaking at the London Perl Workshop 2016

by David Farrell

community

lpw

london

Join us for an exciting day of technical talks and fun

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How to upload a script to CPAN

by David Farrell

cpan

distribution

metacpan

cpan-testers

toolchain

Share your code with others via CPAN

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What's new on CPAN - October 2016

by David Farrell

cpan

tibia

pandoc

tnt

bread-board

raspberry-pi

png

netfilter

text-xslate

ajv

bson

test2

A curated look at October's new CPAN uploads

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How to empty a file with Perl

by David Farrell

data

truncate

open

filehandle

vim

As easy as you'd expect it to be

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What's new on CPAN - September 2016

by David Farrell

cpan

drac

oozie

monzo

cassandra

keystone

zstd

dbic

duckduckgo

json-schema

A curated look at September's new CPAN uploads

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Hacktoberfest is here

by brian d foy

community

perl

github

pull-request

git

digitalocean

hacktoberfest

ghojo

Send those Perl GitHub pull requests!

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Don't forget to #Perl

by David Farrell

community

twitter

hashtag

Help users find Perl related tweets more easily

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5 things I learned from Learning Perl 7th Edition

by David Farrell

community

learning-perl

oreilly

brian-d-foy

A surprisingly in-depth book for beginners

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Using bit arrays with large integers

by David Farrell

data

bigint

bit-array

bitmask

integer

memory

Testing huge bit arrays with Perl

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What's new on CPAN - August 2016

by David Farrell

cpan

farmhash

medium

xisbn

mailgun

opan

statsite

band-in-a-box

imager

monorail

kinesis

facebook

template-pure

A curated look at August's new CPAN uploads

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The History of the Schwartzian Transform

by brian d foy

community

perl

lisp

randal-schwartz

schwartzian-transform

alpine-perl-workshop

A complex sort with a complex history

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Save space with bit arrays

by David Farrell

data

bit-array

bitwise

binary

boolean

bigint

integer

An old school data structure that efficiently stores data

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