From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Nov 24 23:48:26 2013 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 23:48:26 -0800 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #122 - Over 5_000! Message-ID: <20131125074826.EA64276E17E@s6.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/122.html Hi, first, let me just thank you for all the support. There are now more than 5_000 e-mail subscribers reading this newsletter. It is awesome! By chance, Peteris Krumins has published a book about Perl one-liners and there is a 30% discount code for the Perl Weekly subscribers. (See below.) Finally, if you'd like to show your monetary support to the Perl Weekly, you can do so by subscribing to the Perl Maven Pro ("http://perlmaven.com/pro"). Besides the good feeling of supporting the Perl Weekly, you will also get 31 advanced Perl-related articles ("http://perlmaven.com/archive?tag=pro"). 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How do you see your future with that code? -------------- ============= Discussion PDL show of hands http://bit.ly/IomDJi Chris Marshall, the maintainer of PDL (Perl Data Language) distribution, is lookinf for input for the future direction of PDL. Please read the questions on the announcement, and send an e-mail to him to: devel.chm.01 at gmail.com -------------- ============= CPAN Claiming your CPAN authorship at Google http://bit.ly/1c46pRb Are you a CPAN author? Do you think that your module is useful? Even to people who use Google as their search engine? Here is a way you can help Google show your module in a more personal way. -------------- Getting Started With Stratopan http://bit.ly/1c46nIX -------------- ============= Testing Test::Class::MOP now has an 'is testcase' trait http://bit.ly/IomFAQ Ovid continues his work on the perl5-mop based port of Test::Class. -------------- ============= Code Oh My Glob http://bit.ly/1c46pRc Do you know how import works in Perl? Do you know what \*STDOUT means? Do you know how to create a function on the fly? Rob Hoelz explains all that. -------------- watson - inline issue manager with GitHub support http://bit.ly/IomDJo -------------- ============= Fun Something Fishy http://bit.ly/IomDJp Command-line perldoc, dzil and got completion from your favorite Yanick. Screenshows. -------------- ============= Survey Perl Website Survey http://svy.mk/1c46q7r Andrew Solomon is running a small, one-page survey on Perl and web. Please fill it out in the next 48 hours and if you don't forget, please mention that you read about the survey in the Perl weekly. (I think the 5th question can have this information). -------------- ============= Business Built In Perl http://bit.ly/IomFAX Tudor Constantin has built a new web site featuring start-up companies that rely on Perl. Do you work for one? Do you own one? Do you want to get featured? -------------- ============= Database HOWTO: Building Perl Module DBD::Sybase 1.15 for ActiveState Perl (Windows 32bit) 5.16.3 using the MinGW compiler http://bit.ly/1c46q7u Jason L Froebe walks you through the steps. Enhanced with screenshots. -------------- ============= Videos Building your first app using MongoDB and Perl http://bit.ly/1c46q7x -------------- How To Be A Web UI Developer http://bit.ly/1c47okm (48:55) - Casey West gives a quick overview of Twitter Bootstrap, HTML5 Boilerplate, Modernizr, Shims, Respond.js, Mimosa, Stylus, and a lot of other front-end tools and libraries. -------------- A Date with Perl http://bit.ly/IontWF (52:18) Dave Rolsy, author of the DateTime module explains about Daylight Saving Time, Leap seconds and the difficulty to make sane computation with dates and times. -------------- ============= Perl 6 Rakudo Star 2013.11 released http://bit.ly/IomFB0 -------------- ============= Weekly collections MetaCPAN weekly report - Pinto http://bit.ly/1c46q7B -------------- StackOverflow Perl report http://bit.ly/1c46nZn -------------- Perl 6 changes - 2013W47 http://bit.ly/IomDZL -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials How to get the last character of a string in Perl? http://bit.ly/IomFB6 An almost legitimate use-case for chop! -------------- Count the frequency of words in text using Perl http://bit.ly/1c46nZt Counting how many times a given (sub)string appears in a given text is a very common task where Perl is a perfect fit. -------------- Hacking Meta::CPAN - the first steps http://bit.ly/IomFRm Do you use MetaCPAN or search.cpan.org? Do you know you easily make changes to MetaCPAN to provide you better information? In this article I show the first few steps and a small change that was already accepted and deployed. -------------- ============= 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. 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? 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