'Tis the season...for Advent calendars, apparently. Take a look at special coverage of those in this week's issue, along with more LPW reports and other goodies! D Ruth Holloway

Advent Calendars

Perl Advent Calendar

A holiday tradition since 2000!

Perl 6 Advent Calendar

Every year since 2009--no fancy calendar, just great blog entries every year in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

Mojolicious Advent Calendar

JBERGER) by Joel Berger Joel has started a new blog for Mojolicious, and is kicking it off in grand style, with an Advent calendar.

Dancer Advent Calendar

They are a couple of days behind as I write this, but the Dancer team has produced an Advent calendar since 2010.

London Perl Workshop reports

LPW Time

by Mark Keating MDK couldn't be satisified with one post (listed in last week's issue of the Perl Weekly), he had to post on the company blog, too. 'Cuz he's like that.

Other Events

4 Days in Amsterdam with Porters

by Todd Rinaldo P5P held a Hackathon October 12-15. Todd reports on some of the key work, and teases us with more blog posts to come.

CPAN Testers at meta::hack v2

PREACTION) by Doug Bell Doug continues improving integration of CPAN Testers with MetaCPAN. He attended the second annual MetaCPAN hackathon, and here reports on his work at the event, along with a list of upcoming work.

Non-Code

Perl 5

OpenCage Data, Geocoding in Perl

The builtinperl.com folks interview Ed Freyfogle, co-founder of OpenCage Data about the work they're doing in geocoding with Perl.

Perl 6

2017.48 Community First

byElizabeth Mattijsen ( ELIZABETH The weekly roundup of Rakudo news.

I've Written a Small BBC News Scraper in Perl 6

byst33znson After learning a lot about Grammars, st33znson has written up a small scraper, and shares it with us in this Reddit thread.

Grants

YAML::PP Grant Report

TINITA) by Tina Müller Tina has been working hard on YAML-related work including presenting at the LPW. She reports on a number of improvements, and other grant-related activity.

Weekly collections

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

Front-end focus for a full stack Perl developer

Perl developers are generally a multi-talented bunch who can segue smoothly between the nuts and bolts of back-end work and the immediately rewarding aesthetics of front-end work. If pushed, though, most could identify where their real passion lies along the spectrum from front-end to back-end.

Independent thinkers required! Mid/Senior-level Developer for an innovative London company

Have you ever worked for a company with a micromanagement style, where a boss was constantly breathing down your neck? Do you hate spending more time in meetings about product requirements than actually getting on with building the product?