#118 - Do we ♥ Unicode?
Gabor Szabo
gabor at szabgab.com
Mon Oct 28 00:32:48 PDT 2013
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Hi,
lots of great articles this week. Way too many! And many of them have all
kinds of funny Unicode characters in their title or description. Let's see
if the Perl Weekly can already handle those? If you see any breakage,
please let me know!
(Actually I got an exception from Encode during the conversion and
Carp::Always helped me locate the source of the problem. See article below.
Enjoy!
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Announcements
Cluj.pm community members get together again
http://bit.ly/1ajtfVU
On 7 November 2013 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania with ribasushi (aka. Peter
Rabbitson), SawyerX, Attila-Mihaly Balazs, Mihai Pop and you!
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¡Viva Perl!: Official Announcement of the Call for Speakers
http://bit.ly/Hbyie9
In cast that was not clear from the title, this is the first Call for
Speakers of YAPC::NA that will be held in Orlando, Florida between
23–25th June.
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Carton Talks in Europe
http://bit.ly/Hbyiea
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa is doing his world tour, (limited edition) and will
speak in Copenhagen and London, and he is also ready to drink beer in
Frankfurt.
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Articles
Pragmatic Perl Interview (English Translation)
http://bit.ly/1ajtfVZ
An interview with chromatic, the author of the Modern Perl book
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How I manage my Perl distributions
http://bit.ly/1ajtgcg
There are some large Perl-based applications out there that use their own
way of packaging and distributing the code, but Steven Haryanto believes
it is better to use the same toolchain as is used for CPAN distributions.
Even if the application does not end up on CPAN. Even if it is an
in-house or other proprietary application. (I tend to agree.) In this
article he describes how he handles the process.
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Testing
How to use the debugger with Moose
http://bit.ly/1ajteRP
I have been a long-time fan of the command line debugger that comes with
Perl, but in certain cases, especially when using Moose, it has issues.
Now Ovid shows a solution using DB::Skip written by Christian Walde.
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Code
Dist::Zilla ♥ encoding
http://bit.ly/1ajtgcl
Last weekend there was a mini hackathon at Ricardo Signes' house. David
Golden tells us about the improvements they made to Dist::Zilla
("http://bit.ly/Hbyief") and which plugins might need further work in
order to make sure everything works fine with UTF-8.
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Parallel DNS lookups using AnyEvent
http://bit.ly/Hbyieg
An explanation and a full example script by Sebastian Willing.
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Acme-oop-ism Part Two: Type::Tiny
http://bit.ly/1ajtgcm
As Toby Inkster explains: 'Acme-oop-ism is about writing code that works in
Moose, Mouse and Moo.' His work allows the deprecation of several modules
in favor of one that can handle all 3 OOP systems.
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How to redirect and restore STDOUT
http://bit.ly/HbygmC
Perltricks by David Farrell
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Enable Backtraces with Carp::Always (Modern Perl Tips)
http://bit.ly/HbygmE
This module will attach a stack-trace to every warning and exception,
without modifying the code!
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CPAN
modules seeking homes
http://bit.ly/1ajtgcn
Ricardo Signes tries to sell some of his CPAN modules.
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CPAN modules for converting markdown to HTML
http://bit.ly/Hbyg6c
Just as I am going to need one, Neil Bowers went over 9 CPAN modules
converting Markdown to HTML ("http://bit.ly/1ajtgcp"). I love these
comparisons, but it also somehow disturbs me. Frankly in many cases I'd
just would like to be told 'use this' and not need to think about it
much.
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Fun
POD Web View
http://bit.ly/HbygmJ
A fun web application written by Michał Wojciechowski using Perl Dancer.
You type in some POD (or upload a file or give it a URL) and it will
convert it to HTML and show it in search.cpan.org style, or MetaCPAN
style, or GitHub style.
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Business (or Fun)
Ruling the world with Perl and Excel
http://bit.ly/Hbyiej
brian d foy shows how to create manager and executive friendly reports.
(aka. Excel files with colors.)
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Plotly - Scientific Graphing Libraries
http://bit.ly/1ajtgsJ
It says on the web page: 'Modern, drop-in alternatives for matplotlib,
ggplot2, and MATLAB plotting routines with the added bonus of
interactive, web-ready output.' Go try it!
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Database
Perl DBD::ODBC 1.44_4 released to the CPAN
http://bit.ly/1ajtf8o
This is a development releases, but as Martin Evans writes this is going to
be 1.45. So if you depend on DBD::ODBC, you'd better test it. See changes
in the latest development versions.
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Videos
Parsing JSON with a single Regex
http://bit.ly/HbygmO
brian d foy explains the crazy regex written by Randal Schwartz to the
Houston Perl Mongers and to all of us.
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Exception to Rule
http://bit.ly/1ajtfoF
Bruce Gray (Util) gave a presentation about error handling with and without
throwing exceptions at YAPC::NA 2013.
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Web
TWiki-6.0.0 Released - Better Usability, Scalability & App Platform
http://bit.ly/HbyiuE
With shiny new dashboard and lots of other new features. In case you don't
know, Twiki, is one of the oldest and probably the largest Perl-based
wiki.
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Perl Catalyst 'Hamburg' Development Release 4 on CPAN
http://bit.ly/HbygD3
Thank to John Napiorkowski we have regular reporting in the development of
the Catalyst web framework. Several improvements especially in the area
of better PSGI support to enable mounting other PSGI based applications
inside a Catalyst app.
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Writing Non-Blocking Applications with Mojolicious: Part 1
http://bit.ly/1ajtfoK
Joel Berger starts the series of articles by asking the question: 'Why
should I chose Mojolicious versus one of the other major Perl web
frameworks?'. His point is that just as Node.js, Mojolicious was also
designed non-blocking in mind. He then goes ahead and shows two versions
of a pastebin application.
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Weekly collections
MetaCPAN weekly report - Mojolicious
http://bit.ly/1ajtgt1
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StackOverflow Perl report
http://bit.ly/1ajtfoN
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Perl 6 changes - 2013W43
http://bit.ly/HbygD4
'Flip flops can be negated.' - I wonder, does that mean it will first flop?
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Past Events
YE2013 & PPW2013 Survey Results online
http://bit.ly/HbyiuJ
Barbie has posted the results ("http://bit.ly/1ajtfoT") and wrote some
explanation.
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Events
I usually list the next 3-4 events here. The list of all the events can be
found on the web site (http://perlweekly.com/events.html). If your Perl
event is not listed there, please let me know.
Austrian Perl Workshop
http://bit.ly/18hunIE
November 2-3, 2013, Salzburg, Austria
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YAPC::Brazil 2013
http://bit.ly/155GQIh
November 15-16, 2013, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
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Nordic Perl Workshop 2013
http://bit.ly/16WT32H
November 23, 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark
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London Perl Workshop (LPW 2013)
http://bit.ly/17gJVYW
Saturday 30th November 2013 at Westminster University
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