Ever since I received "Think Perl 6" book as a gift by Neil Bowers at the London Perl Workshop 2017, I have been planning to start learning Perl6 without any luck. I can think of many reasons why. One of the reasons was my confusion where to start. First I thought, I will start from the basics but then I easily get distracted if I don't have a target. Then I realised why not pick one of my Perl5 distributions and convert it into Perl6. That sounded great idea.

I tweeted about my intention and asked for help. Immediately two people kin…

Taking clue from Gabor Szabo, the Chief Editor of PerlWeekly newsletter, when he tweeted last week and asked his followers what they would like to read in the next edition of PerlWeekly newsletter.

I would like to introduce "Perl Weekly Challenge" where anyone can put forward the challenge for others. It can be Perl5 or Perl6. We, developers, come across many challenges on a daily basis at work. Why not throw the same challenge and see ho…

Ever since, I submitted the 1500th Pull Request at the end of last year, I have been thinking of doing some kind of data analysis. I love playing with data as it can tell you something interesting every time you poke. I had so many questions in my head with regard to my PR journey e.g. How many authors I have contacted so far? How many distributions on GitHub I have submitted PR against? etc.

Luckily, I have been collecting data about every PR (nearly) that I have submitted so far with details like author, distri…

My start of the year 2019 wasn't very good. I welcome the new year with Flu, suffered till nearly the end of the month. One thing I missed last month was "Pull Request Challenge". No more email from Neil Bowers with random distribution for the month. Thanks to "Pull Request Club", I was still able to contribute.

Let's take a quick look through.

• Pull Request
• Git Commits
• Pull Request Club
• Perl Blog
• PerlWeekly Newsletter
• Adopt CPAN Module