[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #122 - Over 5_000!

Sun Nov 24 23:48:26 PST 2013

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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

  <b>Perl one-liners</b> 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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