Hi there, Sawyer organized a Perl meeting a few month ago in Tel Aviv, but besides that I have not been to a Perl-conference or workshop for quite a while. Back in the days when I went to 1-3 events a year I had a feel of where the Perl community is at. Or at least I thought I have. Now I don't know. Without the face-to-face meetings I can only rely on blog posts to try to understand what people think and where are things haeding, but we have fewer and fewer blogs posts. So what are you working on these days? Have you amended your Perl expertise with something else? What are you working on these days? Grab a blogging platform and write something. Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo

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PLICEASE) by Graham Ollis Platypus allows you to write Perl bindings to non-Perl libraries with FFI. No XS required.

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Perl Marketing Question... or: How To Prompt Cooler then Python

An interesting case with some interesting comments. It also shows that some people don't understand that every friction (e.g. the need to install IO::Prompter from CPAN) will hugely reduce the chances of success. IMHO this, the fact that the Perl community forgot to make 'the easy things easy', is a large part how first PHP, and later Python became more popular than Perl.

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Perl Weekly Challenge The Perl Weekly Challenge by Mohammad Anwar will help you step out from your comfort-zone. You can even win the prize money of $50 Amazon voucher by participating in the weekly challenge. The weekly prize is kindly sponsored by Peter Sergeant of PerlCareers.

Morse and Remorse with Raku

byArne Sommer Every week, Arne, presented solutions with something new to most of us (Perl Fan). It was "antipairs" this time.

PERL WEEKLY CHALLENGE – 035

byJavier Luque Being a fan of Javier, I loved his solution this week as well, specially Error Correction part of it.

Perl Weekly Challenge 35: Binary Encoded Morse Code

byLaurent Rosenfeld Laurent is absolute genious when it comes to Perl and Raku. Must Read.

Perl Tutorial A section for newbies and for people who need some refreshing of their Perl knowledge. If you have questions or suggestions about the articles, let me know and I'll try to make the necessary changes. The included articles are from the Perl Maven Tutorial and are part of the Perl Maven eBook.

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The Perl Conference 2020

June 23-27 2020 Houston, TX

See the Hipster in his Natural Perl Environment

Our London based client provides a platform for musicians and industry professionals to manage their work and while making sure they get paid for it. If you support independent music, or if you’re just a fan of artists getting compensated enough to drop the “starving” part from their title, then this might be the job for you.

A Perl Equation that just Makes Sense

This well-known company builds the that software hosting companies use to allow customers to build websites. The software you create will be deployed on thousands of servers all over the internet, and used by hundreds of thousands of people. Best of all, the client has a killer relocation program, so if you land this one, it’s Houston, here you come.

Contract Role - Amsterdam - €55-€70

Client is seeking an experienced Perl developer in Central Amsterdam for a six month contract with potential for a longer engagement. You’ll be based out of a lovely office near Centraal Station, working with a big international company.

Drama Queens and Perl Princes Need Not Apply

Our Pittsburgh based client is looking for junior Perl programmers who play well with others. No divas here—just a team of great people who love working with our client so much that many have been there for ten, fifteen, and even twenty years! That kind of employee longevity can only mean one thing—you’ve stumbled across the kind of chill company programmers dream of.