• Which module should I use to define constants? (neilb.org)
• Why @chromatic_x runs tests on install, and I do, too (modernperlbooks.com)
• Peteris Krumins' series "Perl One-Liners Explained" is now an ebook (catonmat.net)
• Why I'm finally leaving GoDaddy (petdance.com)
• Don't assume that a true value is 1 (blogs.perl.org)

• Open source is improv, so say "Yes and" (petdance.com)
• craigslist donates $100,000 to the Perl Foundation (news.perlfoundation.org)
• Text::AsciiTeX renders TeX formulas as ASCII art (blogs.perl.org)
• The most important pig in the office (with nod to @chipsalz, too) (petdance.com)
• An hour-long video of Damian Conway talking Perl and physics (blip.tv)
• Speed up Perlbrew with parallel tests (modernperlbooks.com)
• Visualizing the Perl 5 support policy (dagolden.com)
• MooseX::Role::Loggable adds logging goodness to your objects (blogs.perl.org)
• Rakudo Star 2012.01 released (rakudo.org)
• What's next in Rakudo (6guts.wordpress.com)
• I'll be presenting "29 ways to get started in open source today" at YAPC:NA (act.yapcna.org)
• DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop is April 14th. $25 for two tracks of talks. (dcbpw.org)

• Perl QA Hackathon last call for participation (nntp.perl.org)
• RJBS gives the history of Dist::Zilla (perlmonks.org)
• What to avoid in BEGIN blocks (blogs.perl.org)
• Visualizing the improved Perl 5 release cycles (dagolden.com)
• Perl tools for working with PostgreSQL logs (depesz.com)

• Modern Perl 2011-2012 edition released (modernperlbooks.com)
• Developing parsers incrementally w/Marpa (blogs.perl.org)
• Parrot tickets migrated to @GitHub. (perlbuzz.com)
• Thank you, CPAN Testers (blogs.perl.org)
• The case of the overloaded curlies (blogs.perl.org)
• Perl more viable for webdev than ever (blogs.perl.org)

• Perl interface to the nginx web server (blogs.perl.org)
• The 2011 Perl 6 coding contest: Write Perl 6 code, win $100 of prizes (strangelyconsistent.org)
• Perl documentation is awesome (blogs.perl.org)
• YAPC::NA 2012 is now accepting talk proposals (blogs.perl.org)
• A look back at Perl 2011 (onionstand.blogspot.com)
• Installing Citrus Perl on OS X (blogs.perl.org)
• How do I debug memory usage? (blogs.perl.org)
• Perl::Critic finds annoying little bugs in your code (perlbuzz.com)
• (changes.cpanhq.org) checks your Changes file for standards compliance. Whether that's useful is left as an exercise to the reader
• Andrew Dunstan says the Perl 5 bug tracker is "worse than useless". (people.planetpostgresql.org)

Now if you have a line of code like this:

my $n += somefunc();
# Should be my $n = somefunc();

Perl::Critic will tell you

Augmented assignment operator '+=' used in declaration at line X, column Y. Use simple assignment when initializing variables.

If you haven't let Perl::Critic loose on your code yet, now's a great time to try.

To the loyal Perl::Critic users, what's the nastiest bug Perl::Critic found for you? Let me know in the comments.

• Tracking users with Plack and Catalyst (modernperlbooks.com)
• FOSDEM 2012 in Brussels is looking for Perl speakers (nxadm.wordpress.com)
• Why is ack packaged as ack-grep? (blogs.perl.org)
• DBIx::Connector reduces the technical friction of managing DBI connections (perladvent.org)
• Minecraft-like game written in Perl and C (ue.o---o.eu)

• Building telephony apps with Perl and TwiML (perl.com)
• brian d foy is overhauling perldoc (blogs.perl.org)
• Booking.com donates €100,000 to the Perl Foundation. That's FIVE zeroes! (perlnews.org)
• Don't open files the old, clunky, unsafe way (szabgab.com)
• Design patterns for command line utilities (reddit.com)
• YAPC::NA's keynote speaker will be the Schwern (blog.yapcna.org)
• When print debugging fails (modernperlbooks.com)
• RT @DEVOPS_BORAT 5 essential tool you are need in devops: Perl.
• Better password security (pal-blog.de)
• Alternative Dancer templating engines (blogs.perl.org)
• Defining grammars with regular expressions (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• MetaCPAN has a contest to find a logo (contest.metacpan.org)
• Learning music notes with Perl (showmetheco.de)
• Text::Xslate wants to replace Template::Toolkit (xslate.org)

• Brazilian Perl Mongers team wins Latin America web app contest (perlnews.org)
• Use system or exec safely on Windows (blogs.perl.org)
• Check out the slick YAPC::NA 2012 idea booth. Vote on what you would like to see. (ideas.yapcna.org)
• How to give a conference presentation, by MJD (petdance.com)
• How to make disposable web servers for testing (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• Command line tricks in Perl (perladvent.org)
• Carp::Always::Color is Carp::Always with color (metacpan.org)
• RT @rjbs Remember, if you build a tied fh with your own PRINT, you have to respect $\ for "say" to work: (gist.github.com)
• RT @hoelzro me wonders if this year someone should write an advent calendar entry for each #moose clone =P #perl
• Updates to Neil Bowers' CPAN module reviews (blogs.perl.org)
• What does CATALYST_DEBUG do? (blogs.perl.org)
• Zoidberg, modular Perl shell (blogs.perl.org)
• MongoDBI, interface to MongoDB (blogs.perl.org)
• Use B::Stats to check for bloat (blogs.perl.org)
• Track app progress with writeable $0 (modernperlbooks.com)

• Temporary directory handling in tests (modernperlbooks.com)
• You use assertions in your code, right? Carp::Assert::More headds convenience functions (search.cpan.org)
• Automated GitHub-friendly READMEs with ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Module::Build (blogs.perl.org)
• Deal with process output in bash scripts correctly (sysadvent.blogspot.com)
• It's December 1! The first day of the Perl Advent Calendar! (perladvent.org)
• How to trace your Perl programs (effectiveperlprogramming.com)
• Controlling test parallelism with prove (modernperlbooks.com)
• Perl droplets for Mac OS X (blogs.perl.org)
• DC Perl Mongers have a podcast of their meetings (blogs.perl.org)
• Perl 6 advent calendar (perl6advent.wordpress.com)
• Goings-on at Tel Aviv PM (blogs.perl.org)
• Location/weather-based thermostat control (iamshadowlord.com)
• Augmenting the Perl debugger (blogs.perl.org)
• A list of 2011 Perl advent calendars (lowlevelmanager.com)