Perl Weekly Issue #304 - 2017-05-22 - That was the toolchain summit that was! latest | archive | by Neil Bowers Don't miss the next issue! Tweet

The Perl Toolchain Summit ended last Sunday, and through this week the attendees have been blogging about what they did there. There's a lot to read, but hopefully it will illustrate why this is such a valued event. There's also plenty of conference news; the season is almost upon us! Neil Neil Bowers

CPAN News

Good things come in managed packages

ActiveState announced that going forward they'll focus on supporting regular CPAN tools for installing modules, rather than focussing on their own Perl Package Manager.

Perl 5

Perl 6

2017.20 Crossing The Alps

byElizabeth Mattijsen ( ELIZABETH Liz's weekly round-up of Perl 6 news, which includes the Perl 6 happenings at toolchain summit.

Toolchain Summit

Olaf Alder's report

OALDERS) by Olaf Alders Olaf's report on how he spent the toolchain, hacking on a range of things related to MetaCPAN. Be sure to read all the way to the end, including the slightly scary story of things leaking from his plane!

Leo Lapworth's report

LLAP) by Leo Lapworth Leo is the sysadmin for the MetaCPAN project, so a lot of his todo list related to the infrastructure, and also helped a few people get setup with the developer VM for MetaCPAN.

Doug Bell's report

PREACTION) by Doug Bell Doug is the project lead for CPAN Testers, so unsurprisingly that was his focus during the summit. His main task a new API for uploading test reports.

The (YAML and Perl Toolchain) Summits

TINITA) by Tina Müller Two reports for the price of one! Before the toolchain summit, Tina and Ingy had a YAML summit in Berlin. At the toolchain summit Tina worked with Ingy on the YAML module, and other YAML tools.

Fixing CPAN distributions without a META file

NEILB) by Neil Bowers One of the problems with CPAN is releases that don't have a META.yml or META.json file. We want to try and fix these, particularly those that are used by other CPAN distributions.

Conferences

Swiss Perl Workshop - Damian on Board (Again)

The Swiss Perl workshop is on the 25th and 25th of August, and Damian Conway will be attending this year (Damian blogged about this too!).

The Perl Conference 2017 in DC

The Perl Conference runs from the 19th June through the 21st, with a day of tutorials before, and two days of tutorials afterwards.

Madrid Perl Workshop 2017

The Madrid Perl workshop is on June 3rd.

YAPC::Fukuoka

July 01, 2017, LINE Fukuoka株式会社, Hakata-Ku, Fukuoka, Japan

Crowd funding

Distraction-free Workplace - Escape Standups and Scrum - Perl Developer West London

Personally, I love Agile and Scrum so much I wrote a set of blog articles detailing why I love them so much. But it’s not everyone's cup of tea. Some people yearn for being given a two-week task, going away, and getting it done well by themselves, or in consultation with highly technical and well-read colleagues.

London's Trendiest Office Space - Lead and Mid-Level Perl Developer roles

I love working in a vibrant, modern space. If you’re going to spend all day at work, it might as well be somewhere you enjoy being, rather than a cubicle farm. This client has a workspace I’m actively jealous of!