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>
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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.)
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Announcements
Foswiki 1.1.9 released, just in time for its 5th anniversary
http://bit.ly/IomFkw
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How to command the command line?
http://bit.ly/IomDJf
Perl one-liners written by Peteris Krumins has just been published
by No Starch Press. Read my review and if you would like to buy it, you
can use the discount code PERLWEEKLY. It's 30% off and is valid for the
next 10 days.
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Articles
The strict Pragma is a Cultural Marker
http://bit.ly/1c46pR8
Do you have special feelings when you see code that has 'use strict' in it?
What if you notice that it does NOT have 'use strict'? How does that
change your expectation from the code? How do you see your future with
that code?
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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
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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.
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Getting Started With Stratopan
http://bit.ly/1c46nIX
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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.
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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.
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watson - inline issue manager with GitHub support
http://bit.ly/IomDJo
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Fun
Something Fishy
http://bit.ly/IomDJp
Command-line perldoc, dzil and got completion from your favorite Yanick.
Screenshows.
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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).
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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?
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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.
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Videos
Building your first app using MongoDB and Perl
http://bit.ly/1c46q7x
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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.
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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.
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Perl 6
Rakudo Star 2013.11 released
http://bit.ly/IomFB0
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Weekly collections
MetaCPAN weekly report - Pinto
http://bit.ly/1c46q7B
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StackOverflow Perl report
http://bit.ly/1c46nZn
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Perl 6 changes - 2013W47
http://bit.ly/IomDZL
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
London Perl Workshop (LPW 2013)
http://bit.ly/17gJVYW
Saturday 30th November 2013 at Westminster University
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German Perl Workshop (GPW 2014)
http://bit.ly/10WS00y
March 26-28, 2014, Hannover, Germany
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YAPC::NA 2014
http://bit.ly/H6ndeD
June 23-25, 2014, Orlando FL
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