After the city we went to the where the Baltic sea and the Gulf of Riga merge: Kolka. hiking along the sandy beaches and through the forests dozing / reading on the beach dipping the feet into the ...

I have gotten to the point where I can almost use Slack with zero distractions…

I have been saying for quite a long time that we should market our conferences and events more to non-Perl developers. I think we as a Perl community could greatly profit from having some fresh ...

C-o-rr-a-ll-i-n-g d-i-tt-o-e-d l-e-tt-e-r-s I was going to focus this week on the first task of the 20th Perl Weekly Challenge...but what can I say? The task was a break a string specified on the command-line into runs of identical characters:...

A rather relaxed day here at the SPW 2019. We started out with a rather animated open discussion of the future on small Perl meet-ups. Seems it is not only the SWP that can have troubble attracting speakers or attendee,...

Day one here at the SPW coming home again the Florian in Olten CH. We started the day with Liz Mattijen debunking myths found on the inter-web about Perl 6, Raku, Cammila ah what-ever they are calling it these days....

Recently I’ve come across some code that allows extesibility in some ways that are limiting.

Update for Revitalize blogs.perl.org We've had several changes in the GC staffing since this grant began; I'm taking over as the Grant Manager....

Now that Go modules are a thing, I’m starting to use them for my Go projects. So far it’s been a nice improvement from dep and before that, godep. With Go modules you end up with two files in your repo, go.mod and go.sum. The former file stores a list of your dependencies. The go binary will automatically keep these files up to date when you run things like go build. Or at least mostly up to date. When you …

Last week I was in Riga for this year’s European PerlCon (the conference formerly known as YAPC::Europe). As has become traditional, here’s my report of the conference. My conference began on Tuesday night at the pre-conference meet-up. Most people get into town on the night before the conference starts and the organisers always designate a […]

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This is a monthly report by Tony Cook on his grant under Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. We thank the TPF sponsors to make this grant possible. Approximately 30 tickets were reviewed, and 8 patches were applied [Hours] [Activity] 3.43 #120841 document ERRSV, CLEAR_ERRSV(), and the errno handling functions for internal use, comment with patch #120841 retest. Try to figure out some strange output in perlintern.pod, find the problem, improve apidoc.pl, apply to blead 0.60 #125096 review old ticket, find...