From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Nov 17 23:45:44 2013 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:45:44 -0800 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #121 - Advent is getting closer Message-ID: <20131118074544.9BBA476E2C4@s6.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/121.html Hi there, Christmas is getting close and before that there is the tradition of creating Advent calendars. In the Perl world it means a series of articles, one article every day in the 3 weeks leading up to Christmas. It is a community project so you can also contribute an article or two. See the advent section for more details. Enjoy! Sponsors We're Hiring Perl Software Developers - Grant Street Group http://bit.ly/14ZjcSG We're a growing software company using open source software/modern Perl practices to build innovative e-payment, auction, and tax collection web applications.
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Email resume: 106686-CS-6734 at grantstreet.hrmdirect.com -------------- Back-End Blacksmith http://bit.ly/15Wof5W Do you take pride in your craft and want to have fun() at the same time? Are you a geek? Join the team of iwantmyname from anywhere. -------------- ============= Announcements Padre 1.00 has been released http://bit.ly/I0IFTh Without a lot of fanfare Padre, the Perl IDE has reached it 1.00 release. Available on a CPAN near you. -------------- Perl Redis Mailing List http://bit.ly/19ylFAG Damien Krotkine became the maintainer of the Redis Perl module and started his reign by creating a mailing list for the Redis Perl users and developers. -------------- The Stratopan Beta Is Here http://bit.ly/19ylDZA Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer has opened the gates of Stratopan. (You might recall, it is the cloud-hosted version Pinto, that gives you control over all your Perl-dependencies so they will be upgraded only when you want them to. There is also a promise to get unlimited access to Stratopan for life if you sign up soon. I already have an account. -------------- ============= Advent Perl Catalyst Request for Advent Season Articles! http://bit.ly/19ylFAJ John Napiorkowski calls upon the Catalyst users to submit articles for the Catalyst Advent Calendar ("http://bit.ly/I0IFTk"). -------------- Perl Advent Calendar http://bit.ly/I0IF5O Ricardo Signes is working on the Perl Advent Calendar 2013 ("http://bit.ly/19ylFAM"). See the submission FAQ ("http://perladvent.org/FAQ-submit.html") if you are interested in writing an article. -------------- Dancer advent calendar 2013 http://bit.ly/I0IF5R David Precious put out a call for help with the Perl Dancer Advent calendar ("http://bit.ly/19ylEfY"). -------------- ============= Windows and portability Windows Shell to Perl Program http://bit.ly/I0IFTm JT Smith writes about the MadMongers meeting where they took a bat file (a Windows shell script) and converted it to a Perl script. It became much longer, so besides having fun, I am not sure what is the advantage here. Unless they plan to wrap some of the functionality in modules so they become reusable and then the actual script becomes short again. -------------- Don't Get Bent Out of Shape About Being Cross Platform http://bit.ly/19ylEg0 Timm Murray, who came out from the Wumpus Cave just to attend the MadMongers meeting, has his own opinion on how much one should invest in turning a script to be platform independent. Especially when there is no immediate need to run the script on other platforms. -------------- ============= Testing CPAN Testers Summary - Nov 2013 - Pandemonium http://bit.ly/I0IFm6 Highlight: the server upgrade is now complete! Test reports are flowing again! - Thanks Barbie! -------------- Porting Test::Class to the p5-mop http://bit.ly/19ylFRi Ovid has reimplemented Test::Class::Moose as Test::Class::MOP -------------- ============= Code A Stratopan quick start user guide http://bit.ly/I0IFm7 Now that Stratopan is out in public beta, David Farrell has quickly created a start-up guide with screenshots and explanation. -------------- Context and the Comma Operator http://bit.ly/I0IFmc Apparently I missed the Tiny Code Quiz ("http://bit.ly/19ylEgb") Ovid posted last week, but now chromatic took upon the task to try to explain the seemingly (?) unexpected behavior of perl. -------------- ============= Videos Larry Wall: 5 Programming Languages Everyone Should Know http://bit.ly/I0IFmf 6:13 minutes - part of the BigThink interview. -------------- Introduction to the Perl Data Language (PDL) http://bit.ly/19ylG7H 51:22 min talk by David Mertens giving some 'simple' (as in simple astrophysics :) example, and then a bunch of resources to make it easier to get started. The approach is interesting as he keeps telling why is it better to use PDL than C, but only once does he mention the advantages of PDL over pure Perl. -------------- ============= Web The way to write Ruby + Middleman application with Perl. http://bit.ly/19ylG7I Middleman is ruby web framework that makes developing stand-alone websites simple. Yuki Kimoto shows an example using Mojolicious. One of the commenters points to a similar solution in Dancer, and yet another commenter points to Poet which is a modern web framework for Mason developers. -------------- How to have several Catalyst apps behind one Apache server http://bit.ly/19ylEws Tara L Andrews uses Plack::Middleware::ReverseProxyPath and a shell script to solve this. -------------- ============= Other Marpa's Advantages http://bit.ly/19ylGo6 Ron Savage has published the 2nd chapter of his Marpa Papers ("http://bit.ly/I0IFmg"). -------------- moving my homedir into the 21st century http://bit.ly/I0IG9U Ricardo Signes tells us about the pair programming session he had with Ingy d?t Net and Frew Schmidt, and how it lead him to switch from 'screen' to 'tmux'. He also talks about the dotfile manager he has started to use. -------------- ============= Weekly collections (lxxxii) MetaCPAN weekly report - Kelp http://bit.ly/I0IFmn -------------- StackOverflow Perl report http://bit.ly/I0IFCB -------------- Perl 6 changes - 2013W46 http://bit.ly/19ylEN0 -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials Multi dimensional hashes in Perl http://bit.ly/19ylGoe Perl only has one-dimensional hashes, but each value in a hash can be a reference to another hash. Or to an array. This, together with auto-vivification allows the creation of very flexible data structures. -------------- ============= 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. Nordic Perl Workshop 2013 http://bit.ly/16WT32H November 23, 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark -------------- London Perl Workshop (LPW 2013) http://bit.ly/17gJVYW Saturday 30th November 2013 at Westminster University -------------- German Perl Workshop (GPW 2014) http://bit.ly/10WS00y March 26-28, 2014, Hannover, Germany -------------- YAPC::NA 2014 http://bit.ly/H6ndeD June 23?25, 2014, Orlando FL -------------- ============= You joined the Perl Weekly to get weekly e-mails about the Perl programming language and related topics. Want to see more? See the archives ( http://perlweekly.com/archive/ ) of all the issues. Reading this as a non-subscriber? Join us free of charge. http://perlweekly.com/ (C) Copyright Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/ The articles are copyright the respective authors. You can freely redistribute this message if you keep the whole message intact, including the Copyright notice and this text. 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