Two of this week's entries are about tools that people wrote to scratch their own itch. That's always been one of the reasons I like Perl: it seems to encourage you to scratch your own itch. What itch have you scratched recently? Why not tell us about it. Neil Neil Bowers

CPAN News

TLS only for www.cpan.org

byAsk Bjørn Hansen ( ASK The Perl NOC are proposing to switch cpan.org to https-only later in September. Please let them know if you think this might cause any problems, for example for any CPAN clients or other tools.

Check compression in web page

byBen Bullock ( BKB Ben introduces WWW::CheckGzip, a module that will check whether a web page has the correct gzip compression.

Perl 5

Stew your dependencies

VTI) by Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi Dave scratched his blogging itch, and here VTI tells us how he scratched his packaging itch, by developing stew.

Misc

Perl as PID 1 under Docker

byTim Retout ( DIOCLES At CV Library they hit a problem when running Perl as process id 1 inside Docker containers. Tim takes us through the problem, and their solution.

Yak Shaving with Aphra Behn

DAVECROSS) by Dave Cross For many developers, there comes a time when you decide to write your own blog engine. That time has come for Dave, and his blog engine is called Aphra.

Videos from the Swiss Perl Workshop

There are videos for some of the talks at the recent Swiss Perl Workshop, now available for your viewing pleasure.

Rakudo

2017.35 Serving Cro

byElizabeth Mattijsen ( ELIZABETH Liz's weekly roundup of Rakudo news, the headline for which is Jonathan's Cro framework for building web services.

You're invited: Community Bug SQUASHathon

ZOFFIX) by Zoffix Znet On the first Saturday of every month, the Rakudo gang plan to have a bug squashathon. The first one was on the Saturday just gone, but you've got plenty of notice for the next one.

Lance's report on the bug squashathon

byLance Wicks ( LANCEW Lance took part in last weekend's bug squashathon, which he was prompted to join in on, as he's started working on a web app using Bailador (the Dancer "port" for Rakudo).

NativeCall, using the native trait correctly

bySylvain Colinet ( SCOLINET Sylvain explains how to use the native trait when using NativeCall to call a C function from Rakudo.

Swiss Perl conference

The Perl Foundation

Not Perl

Developer Weekly Newsletter

SZABGAB) by Gabor Szabo Gabor is starting another weekly newsletter: this one is going to provide a curated selection of blog posts published by major tech companies. You can sign up at developer-weekly.com.

Polyglot required Down Under – Senior Developer role in Melbourne, Australia

G’day, Perl Mongers of Australia! Do you have a strong background in Perl, but a desire to learn and apply other languages? This client is looking for a polyglot developer, with a focus on Perl but potential to also use (and be cross-trained in) Scala, Ruby, Python and JavaScript. It is a small, flexible team and there may be the opportunity to undertake some DevOps work too if interested.

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.