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Just under a year ago we passed 30 million reports. This month we have managed to clock up 40 million reports.

Congratulations to Andreas König for submitting the 40 millionth CPAN Testers Report. The report itself was a PASS for Class-DBI-ClassGenerat [...]

The CPAN Testers Admin site has been expanding its user test base, and had some further feedback. Expect an official launch very soon.

In blog news, Randy J Ray has posted two articles relating to CPAN Testers. In his first, CPAN Testers and RPC-XML [...]

If you’ve seen me giving my “Kingdom of the Blind” lightning talk this year, then you’ll know that I’ve been hanging around places like the LinkedIn Perl groups and StackOverflow trying to help people get the most out of [...]

Introduction

Mojolicious is truly a modern web framework. It keeps up to date with the HTTP, HTML, WebSockets and JSON specifications so you don’t have to worry about doing that right. It’s a framework where you implement the core business logic, whil [...]

This is the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2014-03-08 18:04:47 GMT

1. In Moose, how do I set multiple defaults with one method call? - [9/2]
2. Perl Multi Threaded Program cr [...]

Everybody knows, I hope, that you have to be really careful when dealing with time in programs. This isn't a problem only in Perl. Things are bad all over. If you know what you're doing when you start, you can avoid many, many problems. Unfortunately [...]

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 128

Week's winner: Search::Elasticsearch (+4)

Build date: 2014/03/07 17:50:04 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::Pod::MathJax
• Acme::Zalgo
• App::Ttyrec
• Authen::OATH
• Bot::Backbone
• Catalyst::Co [...]

I have a feeling this won't necessarily improve Perl's reputation, but I was inspired by Non-Alphanumeric Ruby for Fun and Not Much Else. For reference, here is the Rosetta Code page for FizzBuzz.

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use feature 'say';
use strict;
us [...]

We talk to brian about Mastering Perl second edition, technical writing and his new Perl projects!

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So far this series we have seen the introduction to event-reflexive programming, and a couple of use-cases it would appear in. This time our story continues in chronological fashion, following the development of various IRC-related systems.

The [...]