From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Dec 1 23:02:42 2013
From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo)
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 23:02:42 -0800
Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #123 - Advent started
Message-ID: <20131202070242.A2B2176E064@s6.hostlocal.com>
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Hi,
The week started with very few articles but in the last 2-3 days, people
started to write tons of interesting stuff. In addition, Advent started and
with that the advent calendars. You'll have plenty of material to read or
watch.
Enjoy!
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Announcements
Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 10: Kickstarter & Performance Benchmarks
http://bit.ly/18TTBvX
Will Braswell (Will_the_Chill) is running a fund-raiser for the RPerl
project. As I understand, it is a very optimized Perl 5 compiler
implementing part of the language. What Will calls the low magic commands
("http://bit.ly/18TTz7i"). It was also discussed on Reddit
("http://bit.ly/1bcGPVv").
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Perl One-Liners has been published by No Starch Press
http://bit.ly/1bcGRwu
This is the announcement of Peteris Krumins himself. AFAIK the Perl Weekly
discount code is still valid. (It is PERLWEEKLY)
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DWIM Perl for Linux 5.18.1
http://bit.ly/18TTBMo
This is a Perl distribution for Linux. The first release of the new series
of releases that come with C libraries as well. This version comes with
XML::LibXML (and thus libxml2). Just download, unzip and you can use it.
List of extra CPAN modules on the site of DWIM Perl for Linux
("http://bit.ly/18TTBw7")
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Articles
The xdg channel - Thanksgiving missive
http://bit.ly/1bcGQbX
Look, new toys! David Golden worked on quite a few CPAN modules lately
without blogging about them. Now he collected the list: Class::Tiny,
Path::Tiny, MooseX::Role::MongoDB,CPAN::Common::Index just to mention
some of them.
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Perl in Banks
http://bit.ly/18TTznQ
Is Perl a secret weapon in Banks? Do any of them admit it? Can you find
people who work at some of the largest money-making institutions that
heavy rely on Perl. Dave Cross reposted a request for some 'proof that
Perl is indeed used in the finance industry' and he got quite some. Now
how can you turn this into money?
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Testing
Why Are Fast Tests Important?
http://bit.ly/18TTBMr
Great story by Ovid about the BBC and why reducing the test run-time can
increase the productivity of your team.
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Including CPAN Testers results in the adoption list
http://bit.ly/18TTznR
The CPAN adoption list ranks modules how important it would be for you to
step-up and volunteer to maintain it. It takes in account several
factors, starting from now, it also includes the test reports collected
by the CPAN Testers.
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Code
New Perl::Critic policy in the pipeline: RequireParamsValidate
http://bit.ly/1bcGRwz
In the last few weeks there seem to be a lot of action around Perl::Critic
people creating new policies. This time Jonas Nielsen has done so
checking for the use of Params::Validate.
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Fun
Decoding radio-controlled bus stop displays
http://bit.ly/18TTznY
Ron Savage pointed out that there was a discussion on Slashdot
("http://bit.ly/18TTznV") about a bus service in Helsinki, Finland that
broadcasts the data for the tram stop display system. Oona R?is?nen
took the lead and reverse engineered the data. Using some Perl code.
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New Perl Graphing library and competition from Plot.ly
http://bit.ly/1bcGRwC
Plotly offers a graphing library for scientific Perl/PDL. I don't see a
dead-line, but they plan to announce the winner on 29 December 2013, so
you better send your graphs in the next 2-3 weeks.
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Slides
Interesting Slides on Perl and concurrency
http://bit.ly/18TTznZ
John Napiorkowski, the current leader of Catalyst recommends us to go over
the slides of Jonathan Worthington on the concurrency model of Perl 6.
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Moose
Planet Moose - November 2013
http://bit.ly/1bcGQss
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Videos
Computer Programming in 5 Minutes
http://bit.ly/1bcGQsv
Part of the BigThink interview series of Larry Wall.
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Building your first app using MongoDB and Perl
http://bit.ly/1c46q7x
This time with comments and links.
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Advent
Happy Advent!
http://bit.ly/18TTCjw
Oylenshpeegul collected the list of Advent calendars: Go, Perl 5, Perl 6,
Dancer, Futures, Sys, Java, Garage Rock.
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Day 01 ? The State of Perl 6 in 2013
http://bit.ly/18TTEYw
In Perl 6 land, 2013 will be remembered as the year that brought proper
concurrency support....
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Semantic Perl
http://bit.ly/1bcGRwJ
Per and the Semantic web. Introducing RDF::Trine and RDF::Query
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Futures can return values synchronously
http://bit.ly/1bcGRMZ
Paul LeoNerd Evans will cover the Futures module during this Advent.
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Weekly collections
Meta::CPAN weekly report - Try::Tiny::Retry
http://bit.ly/1bcGRN3
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StackOverflow Perl report
http://bit.ly/18TTEYG
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Perl 6 changes - 2013W48
http://bit.ly/18TTCzV
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Perl Maven Tutorial
How to improve my Perl program?
http://bit.ly/1bcGRN7
It is especially for beginners, but even long time Perl users might find a
few suggestions here. Certainly you could use this page to recommend your
co-workers some basic things how to improve their Perl code.
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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.
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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