[pm-h] Fw: [Perlweekly] The current Perl Weekly News - Issue #8

Tue Sep 20 19:11:26 PDT 2011

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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:23:59 -0700
From: Gabor Szabo <gabor at szabgab.com>
To: perlweekly at perlweekly.com
Subject: [Perlweekly] The current Perl Weekly News - Issue #8

Perl Weekly Issue #8 - September 19, 2011

http://perlweekly.com/

You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer.
http://perlweekly.com/archive/8.html

Hi there,

This issue was mostly prepared on the train from Helsinki to Tampere.
It's great to have wifi on trains, even it that means I missed some of
the views of Finland. Never mind. I still caught a glimpse of the
beautiful sky and we still have the trip back.

New event: The Twin City Perl Workshop 2011 in Vienna and Bratislava,
between 4-5 November has been announced. See details below.

Experiment: The links to the articles are now using bit.ly in the
e-mail. This will allow me to gain some insight which articles are more
popular. Please let me know if something is not working.

Poll: I am preparing a poll asking people (both Perl Weekly subscribers
and others) what kind of articles would they be interested to read. I'd
appreciate your help telling me what should be the options? Please
reply in email!

Now to the posts...

Headlines

  The New OO Docs of Dave Rolsky for the Perl Core Have Been Merged
  http://bit.ly/pw_1000

  After many months of working the new OOP docs written by Dave Rolsky
  finally reached the point when they could be merged into the core perl
  documentation. This means they will be part of the next official
release of perl. If you are impatient to wait you can check out his
blog entry and from there the link to the documentation.
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  ack: 1.96 released with Groovy support
  http://betterthangrep.com/

  ack is like grep, just better.
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Articles

  How to Use Regular Expressions to Parse Nested Structures 
  http://bit.ly/pw_1001

  Peter Thoeny uses the SpreadSheetPlugin of TWiki as an example to
show how to build a mixture of subroutines and regular expressions to
parse data that can have nested elements. (eg. XML or HTML)
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  Corelist web interface
  http://bit.ly/pw_1002

  Tina Müller (tinita) mentioned the web interface for the Corelist
module she rebuilt. I have not seen this website earlier but I think it
is really nice that you can check when was a module first included in
the standard Perl distribution and which version of a module was
included in each version of Perl.
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  Perl for Google Fusion Tables
  http://bit.ly/pw_1003

  'Fusion Tables is a new Google product for data storage: a kind of
  database' writes Robin Clarke (RCL)  while introducing his new module
  Google::Fusion encapsulating the access to the service.
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  02packages.dependencies.txt.gz && apt-cpan
  http://bit.ly/pw_1004

  For a long time I wanted a solution to be able to use CPAN.pm to
install a module but let it default to apt-get (or yum) if a dependency
is already available from the vendor. Jozef shows his solution using the
  MetaCPAN::API
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Discussion

  Which is the better language to learn Perl or PHP?
  http://bit.ly/pw_1005

  I wrote this article in response to a question I got. I tried to make
the comparison related to the job opportunities. The article was quite
  popular but the strange thing was that some of the comments on Google
  Plus and Twitter related to the relative qualities of the two
languages and not the career opportunities.
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  RESTful Perl Resources
  http://bit.ly/pw_1006

  chromatic asked for directions on how to explain and teach REST for
Perl programmers. Several comments from well known Perl programmers
pointed to the 'REST in Practice' book, a few articles and a CPAN
module to help with the task.
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Video

  Mojocast Authentication, Helpers, and Plugins
  http://bit.ly/pw_1007

  Glen Hinkle (tempire) released the third episode of his Mojolicious
  screencast.
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  Hello World
  http://bit.ly/pw_1008

  Leo Lapworth (Ranguard) has just released a new, 2 minute screencast
  showing how to write hello world on the command line.
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Games

  prisk (Games::Risk) gains its own map format, allowing translations! 
  http://bit.ly/pw_1009

  I have already managed to waste a lot of time playing Risk using prisk
  written by Jerome Quelin (jq). Now its your turn. New map format and a
  partial move to Moose will allow more people to get involved in the
  development and the localization of the game.
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Code

  How to find files with Path::Class::Rule
  http://bit.ly/pw_1010

  David Golden (dagolden) introduces his new module for traversing a
  directory structure an processing files and directories based on some
  rule. Think about a Perlish way of using the Unix find command.
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  Faster HTTP usage
  http://bit.ly/pw_1011

  Martin Evans compares the speed of LWP to WWW::Curl::Easy and shows
how the latter is faster. The code is more complex though and I am not
sure if being faster on the CPU really matters. After all these both
solve network intensive tasks. Waiting for the HTTP request still takes
a lot more time than the CPU usage.
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  Tool for Perl Scripting - Devel::Comments
  http://bit.ly/pw_1012

  Tyler Slijboom shows how to use your comments to have seamless
logging in your code for easier debugging. Though it is not mentioned
in the blog but Devel::Comments is a fork of Smart::Comments. For some
reason I never used either of those but I should give them a try as the
idea seems to be good.
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  Perl Examples: Array of Arrays, Hash of Arrays, Hash of Hashes, Stack
  http://bit.ly/pw_1018

  Sathiya Moorthy gives 5 simple examples dealing with complex data
  structures in Perl.
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Perl 6

  This is not enough!
  http://bit.ly/pw_1013

  One of the biggest issues I had with Rakudo Perl 6 was its speed. I
can program around some bugs. I can implement some missing CPAN modules
but if it takes minutes to run my code instead of seconds I'll easily
lose my patience. Jonathan Worthington describes how, getting a new and
faster machine got him to improve the speed of Rakudo even further. - I
think it is time for me to take another look at Rakudo.
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Padre

  Padre realtime diff :) 
  http://bit.ly/pw_1017

  Ahmad M. Zawawi (azawawi) shows further progress in the development of
  Padre. Improved integration with VCS tools allows the Padre user to
see the
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Not Perl

  Bootstrap && Perl 
  http://bit.ly/pw_1014

  As miguel prz (niceperl) also pointed out this is not exactly a Perl
post but I hope people from the Perl community will pick up the idea and
  integrate Bootstrap with their web framework.
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  Success or failure – with open source
  http://bit.ly/pw_1015

  This is not a Perl specific post but I think people who are involved
in open source Perl projects or who are using one - in short anyone
using Perl - could benefit from reading and thinking about the
question: 'What makes an open source project successful?' Is that what
Ulrich Habel (rhaen) wrote or is that something else?
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Events

  Twin City Perl Workshop
  http://bit.ly/pw_1016

  November 4-5, 2011, Vienna, Austria and Bratislava, Slovakia
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