The MetaCPAN team have announced a competition to design them a logo, the winning entry will get a prize of $400 USD, not to mention having their design used on this great site.
The prize has been provided by the Enlightened Perl Organisation
The deadline is the 13th of January 2012, so make sure to have your laptop with you over the holiday season.
For more information visit http://contest.metacpan.org/ or see the entries so far.
https://metacpan.org/ is a year old today. The site and API have come a long way in just one year and offer a great way to search CPAN either through a browser or the API.
The API is already powering new features in Padre, the Perl IDE as well as an iPhone CPAN app – iCPAN and github meets CPAN website.
There have been a large number of contributors and an ever increase set of features.
Olaf looks back at a few of the more recent updates.
There are still a large number of issues and features which the project wants to add, and they are are always looking for more Volunteers.
Congratulations to all involved.
http://prepan.org/ was recently launched at http://yapcasia.org/2011/ and was announced to the rest of the Perl community by @kentaro.
The site focuses on code review and discussions, with the goal of helping module authors get feedback, suggestions and help before they upload a new module to CPAN.
This is a really interesting idea and is getting lots of use even after having been live for only a couple of days. There are several changes and additions planned for the future, so this is definitely a site to keep an eye on.
App::TimeTracker first presented at YAPC::Europe 2011 has just launched a website to go with the Perl Application.
Developed with Perl and Moose meta programming, as well as a host of other CPAN Modules this project is a really nice example of building a Perl application with todays Perl tools.
Rather than go into the detail of what and how this Perl time tracking application works, have a look at the website http://timetracker.plix.at/ to find out more.
http://learn.perl.org/ has been rewritten and relaunched, along with basic step by step guides to installing and using Perl, there are screencasts and some useful examples.
The PerlFAQ (previously hosted at http://faq.perl.org/) is now integrated to the learning website and can be found at http://learn.perl.org/faq/.
There are further changes planned for both the learning website and PerlFAQ in the near future.
There have been a couple of interesting announcements in the last couple of weeks about the support for Perl programming from cloud suppliers.
It’s good to see Perl given support in this area. If you see any more suppliers adding Perl to their platforms then please let us know in the comments.
There are several feed aggregators for Perl, but now there is going to be one less. Since Planet Perl mostly duplicates the efforts of other aggregators, such as Perlsphere, it’s just extra work for the Perl NOC crew to maintain it. Planet Perl was the first long running aggregator, but since it started many others started and survived. Perl NOC announced that Planet Perl going dormant. It’s not exactly disappearing, but it will be in a deep sleep for a long time. If the community ever needs it again, they can easily wake it up.
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