• YAPC::NA will be livestreamed in real-time for free (blog.yapcna.org)
• Introduction to how to do Perl one-liners (catonmat.net)
• NYTProf, File IO, and an Optimization Gone Awry (modernperlbooks.com)
• Reddit API for Perl (blogs.perl.org)
• Lots of Perl authors at YAPC::NA this year (blog.yapcna.org)
• Review of "Programming Perl, 4th ed." (i-programmer.info)
• Don't use Cache::Memcached for UTF8 strings (domm.plix.at)
• PerlGSL, interfaces to the GNU Scientific Library (blogs.perl.org)
• Learning Perl with testing (nbezzala.blogspot.com)
• Separating presentation and content in TT (modernperlbooks.com)

• Always encode and decode Unicode at the edges of your program (perl.com)
• mod_perl 2.0.6 released (blogs.perl.org)
• Comments are open on the Perl Foundation's latest grant proposals (news.perlfoundation.org)
• Creating weekly schedule charts with HTML::Template (blog.nu42.com)
• Playing music with Audio::Beep (blog.und3f.com)
• Tad McClellan has passed away (blogs.perl.org)
• Coding before having expert-level understanding is OK (modernperlbooks.com)

• In case you have a burning need to use ಠ_ಠ for warnings/errors: (metacpan.org)
• Expanded the "More Tools" page of the ack website: (betterthangrep.com) Help your users by including alternatives for them to choose from!
• YAPC::NA is NOT sold out. Still 30 tickets left. Sign up now! (blog.yapcna.org)
• Before you send a patch, send an email (petdance.com)
• For want of a newline (blogs.perl.org)
• Use the command "perldoc -q whatever" to search the Perl FAQ for "whatever"
• Perl 5.16.0 is coming soon, probably early May (rjbs.manxome.org)
• Regexp::Common has regexes for just about everything. Check there first. (search.cpan.org)
• Is Try::Tiny still the best choice for exception handling? (stackoverflow.com)
• Using named regexes in ack output (stackoverflow.com)
• Automating gov't websites w/WWW::Mechanize + HTML::DOM (blogs.perl.org)
• Using Moose's "lazy" attribute for caching (blogs.perl.org)

• User-friendly CLI apps with MooseX::App (blogs.perl.org)
• An age report for git repos (blog.urth.org)
• Sane time zone management in PostgreSQL (justatheory.com)
• Integrating Perl with the nginx web server (blogs.perl.org)
• The price of cleverness (YAML is not safe) (blogs.perl.org)
• By the way, all Perlbuzz tweets are from the command line via @ttytter, a Perl 5 Twitter client
• Expanded the "More Tools" page of the ack website: (betterthangrep.com) Help your users by including alternatives for them to choose from!
• Recapping DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop 2012 (domm.plix.at)
• Poet, a web framework for Mason (openswartz.com)
• Writing init scripts w/Daemon::Control (hashbang.ca)
• Padre 0.96 released. (blogs.perl.org)

• K=R=P (Kindness = Repeat business = Profit) says @tom_peters. I say that for open source, K=U=G+S, Kindness = Users = Growth+Success.
• You probably don't want to be using use_ok() (modernperlbooks.com)
• Interpolate, concatenate or join? (perlmonks.org)
• Quick-n-dirty tool to send messages to HipChat (blogs.perl.org)
• Painless RSS processing with Mojo (blogs.perl.org)
• RT @chromatic_x If you use SQLite for your CPAN distribution's tests, consider an in-memory database. Helps parallelism/Reduces disk IO.
• Explaining web programming via Plack (blogs.perl.org)
• Common Perl pitfalls (perlmonks.org)
• Test::WWW::Mechanize adds scraping functions (perlbuzz.com)

• The Perl Unicode cookbook (perl.com)
• bdfoy's got some ideas for code (blogs.perl.org)
• How @rjbs spent his Perl QA Hackathon (rjbs.manxome.org)
• The homepage for ack is completely redesigned. Hooray for open source, making up for my lack of design skillz. (betterthangrep.com)
• Tricks to compiling mod_perl 2 to OS X Lion (blogs.perl.org)
• Have you seen perl-reversion? (blogs.perl.org)
• Using WWW::Mechanize and mech-dump to get my scratchy 45s (perlbuzz.com)
• DBD::Firebird releases v1.0 (firebirdnews.org)
• Recap of the Perl QA Hackathon (dagolden.com)
• Reading about what people are working on = happy. (blogs.perl.org)
• Whatever task you have, it's probably already on CPAN (blogs.perl.org)
• The Perl Foundation wants to give you money to work on Perl (news.perlfoundation.org)
• More niche modules, "incredibly useful for about 5 people on earth": (github.com)
• Did you know prove has --shuffle to run tests in random order? Has randomizing tests uncovered bugs for you?
• MetaCPAN has a new logo (perlnews.org)
• RT @dukeleto This is a huge step forward in #perl dependency management: "carton bundle" support! (github.com)
• RT @aaronlerch Some devs think "I'll just copy and paste this code block." Now you have two problems. Now you have two problems.
• Would love to see this Perl::Critic talk (blogs.perl.org)
• "The Python site talks about the value the reader gets out of Python, while the Perl site talks about Perl" (modernperlbooks.com)
• How to get ahead in open source: Wear sunscreen. (blog.nerdchic.net)
• Help Open Source Bridge select session proposals (plus.google.com)
• MetaCPAN at the QA hackathon (blogs.perl.org)
• Perl Foundation helps fund critical Perl 5 dev (news.perlfoundation.org)

• "The measure of a civilization is how it treats its weakest members." So too it is with how an open source project treats its newbies.
• A recap of the Israeli Perl Workshop 2012 (blogs.perl.org)
• Who is a contributor to Perl? (perlmonks.org)
• RT @OvidPerl Perl version 5.15.9 has 521,047 tests all of which just passed. #software #testing #tdd #perl
• Perl-based search engine DuckDuckGo is taking off: (duckduckgo.com)
• Discounts on bulk orders of Modern Perl for user groups (modernperlbooks.com)
• New beta version of HTML::Lint validates HTML entities (perlbuzz.com)
• The two most premature optimizations: Optimization of non-working code, and of unmeasured code. (perlmonks.org)
• Devel::Cover reports in vim (blogs.perl.org)
• Syntax coloring in the debugger (blogs.perl.org)
• How to install BerkeleyDB (blogs.perl.org)
• What I learned teaching Perl for advocacy (blogs.perl.org)

Entity checking can be a messy business, but can be invaluable for finding little mistakes, especially in static HTML pages sent to you from other sources. For example, if I have this HTML file, filled with HTML entities and ampersands and all sorts of potential problems, HTML::Lint sniffs out the problems and reports them:

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Ace of &spades;: A tribute to Mot&oumlrhead. &#174; &metalhorns;</title>
        <script>
            function foo() {
                if ( 6 == 9 && 25 == 6 ) {
                    x = 14;
                }
            }
        </script>
    </head>
    <body bgcolor="white">
        <p>
        Thanks for visiting Ace of &#9824;
        <!-- Numeric version of &spades; -->
        <p>
        Ace of &#x2660; is your single source for
        everything related to Mot&ouml;rhead.
        <p>
        Here's an icon of my girlfriend Jenny: &#8675309;
        <!-- invalid because we cap at 65536 -->
        <p>
        And here's an icon of a deceased cow: &#xdeadbeef;
        <!-- Invalid because we cap at xFFFF -->
        <p>
        Another <i>deceased cow: &xdeadbeef;
        <!-- Not a valid hex entity, but unknown to our lookup tables -->
        <p>
        Here's an awesome link to
        <!-- here comes the ampersand in the YouTube URL! -->
        <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yLhA0ROGi4&feature=related">"You Better Swim"</a>
        from the SpongeBob movie.
        <!--
        Here in the safety of comments, we can put whatever &invalid; and &malformed entities we want, &
        nobody can stop us.  Except maybe Cheech & Chong.
        -->
    </body>
</html>


$ weblint motorhead.html
motorhead.html (3:9) Entity &ouml; is missing its closing semicolon
motorhead.html (3:9) Entity &oumlrhead. &#174; is unknown
motorhead.html (3:9) Entity &metalhorns; is unknown
motorhead.html (17:9) Entity &#8675309; is invalid
motorhead.html (19:9) Entity &#xdeadbeef; is invalid
motorhead.html (22:17) Entity &xdeadbeef; is unknown
motorhead.html (31:5) <i> at (22:17) is never closed

That last error about the unclosed <i> tag has always been part of HTML::Lint, but all the others are new with this version of HTML::Lint.

The HTML-Lint distribution includes the HTML::Lint module, which is object based for easy handling, and also includes Test::HTML::Lint so that you can add HTML validation to your test suites.

my $html = $app->generate_home_page();
html_ok( $html, 'Home page is valid HTML' );

If you're not doing any validation of your HTML in your apps, I suggest you give HTML::Lint a try.

• How does the Perl 5 release process work? (lwn.net)
• How to override ->insert() in DBIx::Class (engineerofdanger.blogspot.com)
• Can you learn Perl from an old copy of the "Learning Perl" book? (learning-perl.com)
• Installing a Stackato micro-cloud in one command (activestate.com)
• Perl 5.16 and beyond (lwn.net)

• Async HTTP requests with Mojolicious (blogs.perl.org)
• Using "before", "after" and "around" in Moose (engineerofdanger.blogspot.com)
• Test automation workshop at YAPC::NA 2012 (blog.yapcna.org)
• Checking Perl memory usage with address-sanitizer (blogs.perl.org)
• Perl 5.16's new __SUB__ feature (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• Mojolicious + Twitter's Bootstrap library = awesome (blogs.perl.org)
• My first web app with PSGI and Plack (szabgab.com)
• 14 ways to contribute to open source without being a programming genius or rock star (softwarequalityconnection.com)