[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #123 - Advent started

Sun Dec 1 23:02:42 PST 2013

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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 Räisänen
  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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