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For the full article visit Web based debugging article and the Perl Maven o [...]

PHP calls it associative array, JavaScript calls it object and - in the eyes of other (older) languages like C, BASIC, Pascal or Perl - all of them are wrong. An array has some items which may be addressed using their position in the list, but only a [...]

In Perl 5.10, the idea of a lexical topic was introduced. The topic is $_, also known as "the default variable." If you use a built-in routine that really requires a parameter, but don't give it one, the odds are good that it will use $_. For example [...]

This is the weekly favourites list of CPAN distributions. Votes count: 147

Week's winners (+3): DBIx::Class, Pinto

Build date: 2013/10/02 19:52:23 GMT

Clicked for first time:

• Acme::Pi::Abrahamic
• Algorithm::Diff::XS
• Amazon::S3Curl::PurePerl
• App::scrape
• bignum [...]

Text::Markdown::Hoedown was released on CPAN. It's a new markdown parser library for Perl5.

It's so great because:

• T::M::H supports github extensions
• T::M::H supports custom parsers. You can write markdown2confluence, markdown2hatena or something.

T::M [...]

Latest Tickit version (0.40) is now up on CPAN. Recent changes include:

• Mouse drag-and-drop events (0.32)

  Windows now create more interesting events to represent mouse drag-and-drop operations. Starting, moving, and ending a mouse-drag all create event [...]

A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post about a Google Custom Search that I had set up to create a specialised search engine for Perl. Recently I’ve revisited this idea. I’ve given the search engine its own subdomain and I’ve adde [...]

This is the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.
Between brackets: [question score / answers count]
Build date: 2013-09-28 22:13:40 GMT

1. How to tell if my program is being piped to another (Perl) - [10/2]
2. In Perl, why does concatenating a [...]