As I got ready to blog about my PR Challenge assigned dist for April, I realized I had forgotten to blog about my last month's assigned dist, so I have decided to write a joined march/april repor...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2015/04/my-march-april-cpan-pr-challenge-dists.html
If you hang around Github you might have seen a lot of projects adding extra information to their README files in the form of badges, like so: Not only do they make your project's Gith...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2015/03/how-to-add-online-code-badges-to-your.html
For this month's CPAN Pull Request Challenge I was assigned with Template::Plugin::Autoformat , a module that lets you easily format text and numbers in your Template Toolkit templates, using ...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2015/02/my-february-cpan-pr-challenge.html
So! Back in December I subscribed to Neil Bowers' CPAN Pull Request Challenge . In a nutshell, throughout 2015 every participant will get an email in the first days of each month with a CPAN mod...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2015/01/my-cpan-pull-request-challenge-for.html
Recently I was asked by a friend to install Dancer on Media Temple Grid Service (gs), and after I couldn't find a tutorial to do so, I decided to write one myself :) Hopefully, you'll be able t...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2014/04/perl-dancer-on-media-temple-gs.html
Maybe you want to contribute to the Moe project. Maybe you want to improve your Perl programming skills by stepping out of your comfort zone - after all, learning new languages is generall...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2013/07/scala-for-perl-5-programmers.html
but just a few days after I got back to my country we got kinda in the middle of something .] In the live music capital of the world, over 400 Perl hackers from 18 countries got together a fe...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2013/06/yapcna-2013-rocked.html
I know, I know, I'm two weeks late. Sorry! I scheduled this to go live on January 1st but obviously something went wrong =X HAPPY NEW YEAR, PERL FOLKS! 2013 is already here, and if it's even ...
tl;dr - if you rely on Perl 5, and plan to eventually upgrade to the upcoming 5.18, do this *NOW*: Install 5.17.6 (you do use perlbrew , right?); Try your modules and apps in it (you do have te...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2012/12/are-you-relying-on-hash-keys-being.html
This short post was triggered by a conversation I had on Twitter with a friend: He does strike a nerve there. Ever since Gugod's amazing perlbrew came to life, installing your custom perl -...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2012/05/moving-modules-across-perlbrew.html
Last weekend I was in Paris for the Perl QA Hackathon , a free of charge coding workshop for people involved in Quality Assurance, testing, packaging, CPAN, and other related projects. I had th...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2012/04/perl-qa-hackathon.html
Last month I was able to attend to my very first international (non-brazilian) Perl conference: the Orlando Perl Workshop, also known as Perl Oasis . "Awesome" doesn't even begin to describe it....
Following my 2010 post , I thought I should register some of the great things that happened in the Perl programming world in 2011. Only this time instead of turning it into a timeline, I'm going...
Wait, stop. Is this Yet Another Data::Dumper? Well, yes and no. Data::Dumper (and friends) are meant to stringify data structures in a way that makes them still suitable for being eval'ed back i...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2011/05/dataprinter-colored-pretty-printer-for.html
Last Saturday (May 7) there was a huge Perl event in Brazil - the São Paulo Perl Workshop ! It was a full-day conference with several awesome talks, featuring brilliant international keynotes li...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2011/05/real-perl-ironmen.html
A lot of buzz was generated recently in the Perl community after DotCloud , a big PaaS player, introduced its brand new Perl stack , letting developers deploy modern Perl web applications into t...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2011/04/catalyst-in-cloud.html
Sure, you know what SDL is, right? Well, SDL has very nice Perl bindings that let you use the power and flexibility of Perl to write awesome games in no time! There's even a manual to help you...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2011/02/sdl-perl-game-contest.html
Perl is an amazing programming language. And, with its growing worldwide re-popularization, it was an easy sell to the Computer Science Department of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro , ...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2011/02/teaching-perl-to-undergraduates.html
2010 is almost over, and I figured it's time for a retrospective of yet another awesome year for the Perl programming language and its worldwide communities. I tried making this list as complete ...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2010/12/2010-filled-with-perls.html
Today, the ever amazing xkcd released a new map of online communities . Until last year or so, most of the Perl community resided on "email land". Granted, it's a huge place, but not so pretty, ...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2010/10/perl-and-online-communities.html
Love it or hate it, Dreamhost is one of the most popular web hosting services out there. One of the reasons is their one-click install feature, letting people install opensource software for the...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2010/10/one-click-installers-for-perl-web-apps.html
A couple of weeks ago I had this very nice talk with Daisuke Maki , Gábor Szabó and Kenichi Ishigaki about Perl communities worldwide. These days, as once was with french, and german, and lat...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2010/08/bringing-worldwide-perl-communities.html
More than often we hear people in the Perl community asking for more Perl applications and solutions instead of just modules. Well, Gabriel Weinberg (YEGG , on CPAN) did just that! His new cre...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2010/07/duckduckgo-fast-and-awesome-web-search.html
So, I've been playing a little with Mojolicious::Lite , and here's what I came up with :-) Tweetylicious is a small - but rather complete - microblogging web application in a single file! It i...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2010/06/tweetylicious-twitter-like.html
Hi guys! Our dear Matt S. Trout's latest blog post is entitled "Exciting days ahead". Oh boy, I'm sure "exciting" is a very nice word. And no, I'm not speaking about the brand new Perl 5.12.1 ...
http://onionstand.blogspot.com/2010/05/getting-back-at-mst.html