Hi, the usual preparations for Christmas have started and a number of Perl-related Advent calendars are in the works. It is a good chance for you to step in an contribute your own experience! I also have a request: Do you work on a team that is partialy or full distirbuted geographically? If yes and if you have some time to talk to me about your experience, please get in touch! Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo

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Announcements

2018 Dancer Advent Calendar

CROMEDOME) by Jason A. Crome Do you want to write an article for the advent calendar? Tell us your Dancer success stories, all about a plugin you authored, how your migration from D1 to D2 went... the sky is the limit.

Perl[56] on the 35c3

by Daniel Böhmer Between Christmas and new year (Dec 27-30) Leipzig, Germany will hold the largest hacker conference in Europe: the 35th Chaos Communication Congress. Do you consider going to 35c3?

No devroom for Perl at FOSDEM 2019

by Wendy Van Dijk This year the organizer have decided not to allocate a room for Perl. I'd say use this opportunity to put Perl in every room! Check out the list of rooms and what kind of problems can you solve with Perl that is related to each topic. Then talk to the organizers of those rooms and try to get your talk accepted.

Articles

Just Moose It!

BYTEROCK) by John Scoles I really don't know what to say, I am so impressed by the persistent writing capabilities of John. It seem he has been blogging every day for almost a year now.

Case Study - Geekuni at Booking.com, 2018

ILLY) by Andrew Solomon Instead of trying to hire just 'Perl developers' Booking is hiring developers in general and teaches them how to write in Perl. Sounds as if they invented the wheel, but it is really just common sense. Other companies might take similar route.

Web

Games

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Grants

Grant Proposal: MoarVM JIT Compiler Expression Backend Maturation

byBart Wiegmans

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.

Employment

Perl 6

Weekly collections

Event reports

TPF Notes from OSCON 2018

by Jim Brandt The Perl Foundation had a booth at this year at OSCON. A short report.

Events

London Perl Workshop 2018

November 24th, 2018, London

Senior Perl Contractor who wants to Learn Python -- Work from home + Cambridge, UK

Experience with a Modern Perl stack is a pre-req, and there are some dragons to fight in the existing codebase, but an awesome opportunity

Save the world then go get piste -- Mid-level Perl developer and ski-master in Sevenoaks, Kent

You’ll be working with a Modern Perl stack deployed to AWS on Mojolicious with a strong focus on testing and continuous integration, and the infinite wisdom of one of CPAN’s most prolific (and nicest) contributors at hand