This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Perl Buzz by Andy Lester. Original Post: Perlbuzz news roundup for 2012-04-09 Feed Title: Perlbuzz Feed URL: http://perlbuzz.com/atom.xml Feed Description: What's happening in the world of Perl programming, including Perl 5, Perl 6, the CPAN and Parrot? Latest Perl Buzz Posts Latest Perl Buzz Posts by Andy Lester Latest Posts From Perlbuzz

These links are collected from the Perlbuzz Twitter feed. If you have suggestions for news bits, please mail me at andy@perlbuzz.com.

• The Perl Unicode cookbook (perl.com)
• bdfoy's got some ideas for code (blogs.perl.org)
• How @rjbs spent his Perl QA Hackathon (rjbs.manxome.org)
• The homepage for ack is completely redesigned. Hooray for open source, making up for my lack of design skillz. (betterthangrep.com)
• Tricks to compiling mod_perl 2 to OS X Lion (blogs.perl.org)
• Have you seen perl-reversion? (blogs.perl.org)
• Using WWW::Mechanize and mech-dump to get my scratchy 45s (perlbuzz.com)
• DBD::Firebird releases v1.0 (firebirdnews.org)
• Recap of the Perl QA Hackathon (dagolden.com)
• Reading about what people are working on = happy. (blogs.perl.org)
• Whatever task you have, it's probably already on CPAN (blogs.perl.org)
• The Perl Foundation wants to give you money to work on Perl (news.perlfoundation.org)
• More niche modules, "incredibly useful for about 5 people on earth": (github.com)
• Did you know prove has --shuffle to run tests in random order? Has randomizing tests uncovered bugs for you?
• MetaCPAN has a new logo (perlnews.org)
• RT @dukeleto This is a huge step forward in #perl dependency management: "carton bundle" support! (github.com)
• RT @aaronlerch Some devs think "I'll just copy and paste this code block." Now you have two problems. Now you have two problems.
• Would love to see this Perl::Critic talk (blogs.perl.org)
• "The Python site talks about the value the reader gets out of Python, while the Perl site talks about Perl" (modernperlbooks.com)
• How to get ahead in open source: Wear sunscreen. (blog.nerdchic.net)
• Help Open Source Bridge select session proposals (plus.google.com)
• MetaCPAN at the QA hackathon (blogs.perl.org)
• Perl Foundation helps fund critical Perl 5 dev (news.perlfoundation.org)