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This year marks 30 years of Perl, so Ruth's article is probably not going to be the last one to mark that milestone. The MetaCPAN project is having another hackathon, and they're looking for sponsors. Neil Neil Bowers

CPAN News

An early start on October's pull request challenge

NEWELLC) by Colin Newell The CV-Library team are taking part in the pull-request challenge, and normally they get together one night in the month, and have a big team session where they do it all. This month they were assigned Test2-Suite, so Colin decided to get a head-start.

Perl 5

MetaCPAN

Announcing meta::hack v2

OALDERS) by Olaf Alders Last year the MetaCPAN team held meta::hack, a hackathon where they worked on MetaCPAN. You can read about it in Olaf's summary. That was so successful that they've decided to have another one this year. The core MetaCPAN team will be meeting up in Chicago for four days of intensive work on MetaCPAN and friends. They're still looking for sponsorship; this would be a great way for companies to support the Perl community.

Rakudo

Rakudo Weekly

byElizabeth Mattijsen ( ELIZABETH The weekly roundup of Rakudo, or 6lang, news.

Perl 6 at the London Perl Workshop

by London Perl Workshop The London Perl Workshop is on Saturday 25th November in central London, and is free to attend. This post gives a taster of some of the Rakudo talks that will be there.

6lang Naming Proposal is Good

KIMOTO) by Yuki Kimoto This month's name for Perl 6 is 6lang. Kimoto-san explains why he likes this, which really comes down to the fact that including "Perl" in the name of "Perl 6" continues to damage both Perl 5 and Perl 6.

Dancer

Community

Not Perl

The Absurdly Underestimated Dangers of CSV Injection

by George Mauer You might have come across this already, but if you haven't, then you should read it. If a CSV has a cell starting with =, then when you open the CSV in Excel, the formula will be evaluated. And depending what's in the formula, that could be bad.

History of the browser user-agent string

byAaron Andersen The "User-Agent string" is how browsers identify themselves to web sites. If you've ever written a parser for these, you'll get why I included it. If you haven't, you'll probably just think "huh, so what?".

The corner of Gabor A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.

Marpa for building parsers - a first look

byPeter Jaquiery

Perl Mongers of Wimbledon Common Are We - Perl Developer wanted in Wimbledon

Back in the day, the Wombles of Wimbledon collected rubbish. Nowadays, since the advent of motorised road sweepers, they’d be in need of a new profession. Perl Developer, perhaps? Our client is based in the heart of Wimbledon, under a mile away from the Common where the Wombles famously made their home.

Dreaming of Perl? Mid/Senior-level developer role in The City of Dreaming Spires

The Victorian poet Matthew Arnold called Oxford ‘the city of dreaming spires’, and even the most unromantic among us would surely agree there is something magical about Oxford on a misty autumnal morning.