Perlbuzz

I’ve released ack 2.28 to the CPAN. This release doesn’t add any majornew features, but for those who like to customize things, there are two new help options: --help-colors and--help-rgb-colors.
The --help-colors option shows a chart of various color combinations using the standard eight ANSI terminal colors....

My website perl101.org needs a new maintainer.
I’ve had it up and running since 2007 with the intent of having a site that had everything a beginning Perl programmerneeded to know. The intent was that there be a site where someone learning on the fly could learn important things like“Don’t use capture...

I just released a new module, SQL::Tiny. It’s intended for creating simple SQLstatements where speed is not as important as having maintainable code.
SQL::Tiny is a very simple SQL-building library. It’s not for all your SQL needs, only the very simple ones....

Note: This is a post from 2008 that I dug up that still applies today.
There's a thread over on perlmonks talks about Tom Christiansen'sassertion that you should use it, by default, even when you only have one command-line argument to parse:
What seems to happen is that at first we just want to add--oh say for example JUST ONE, SINGLE LITTLE -v flag.Well, that's so easy enough to hand-hack, that of course we do so... But just like any other piece of software,these things all seem to have...