On August 15th CPAN Day, thanks to the endless promotion of Neil Bowers and others, the anniversary of the birth of CPAN was celebrated. The libations were true to form: over 775 releases were made by 107 authors. Flash in the pan? Beginning of a tradition? We'll have to wait until next year to find out. In the meantime, we can sit back, relax, and enjoy this tsunami of new releases. ~ `/anick Yanick Champoux

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James Aitken (LoonyPandora) passed away

It is with great sadness that we learned of the untimely death of Dancer contributor and Perl community member James Aitken. For anybody wishing to help with the funeral costs, the link leads to a funding campaign.

Announcements

perlprogramming.org

SZABGAB) by Gabor Szabo Gabor Szabo is the owner of the 'perlprogramming.org' domain, but doesn't really have a use for it. So he's asking if anybody is interested in taking over.

Type::Tiny 1.000000 Released

TOBYINK) by Toby Inkster Type::Tiny is one of those keystone minimal implementation-distribution that found their way in almost everybody's toolbox. Toby Inkster announces proudly that it has now reached its v1.0 milestone.

Announcing CPAN.io

BooK announces the arrival of a new CPAN site. It's still very new and very bare, but it might pay to come back and have a look at it in the upcoming weeks.

Articles

Quickly Check for Database Design Flaws

OVID) by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe Database schemas are hard to get right. Ovid tries to help us along the way, and shares a quick checks that is likely to make some of its flaws come out of the woodwork.

Try Travis CI with your CPAN distributions

NEILB) by Neil Bowers CPANTesters is the bee's knee, but recently we have seen the rise of Travis CI, a general-purpose testing service. Neil Bowers shows us here how to use it for Perl distributions.

Discussion

CPAN Day winner?

INGY) by Ingy döt Net Now that the dust is settling on CPAN day, peoples are looking at the scoreboard of releases. Samuel Kaufman draws our attention on Ingy dot Net, who really went ALL out.

Code

Finding Stuff In Your Local CPAN Mirror

Having it is only half the battle: one has to also be able to find it. Mike Greb shares his tricks to find what he's looking for in a local CPAN mirror.

Splitting a Catalyst App and recombining it with Plack::Builder

So your little Catalyst application is not so little anymore, and it has reached a size where it becomes unwieldy and should be fragmented in smaller, separate parts. Dave Wood has been there, and tells us how he proceeded.

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