From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Dec 9 02:03:36 2013 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 02:03:36 -0800 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #124 - On the nth Day of Chrismas, My Newsletter Brought to Me... Message-ID: <20131209100336.7B04476E39F@s6.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/124.html Here we are, on the last stretch of the year. While the blog front might be on the quiet side, the different advent calendars are abuzz with activity. Some elves are also keeping themselves quite busy if the first reports of the 'patch -p1' hackaton are to be trusted. So go fill your hot cocoa mug, and prepare to enjoy this small, but oh-so-cozy, edition of the PerlWeekly. ~ `/anick Sponsors We're Hiring Perl Software Developers - Grant Street Group http://bit.ly/14ZjcSG We're a growing software company using open source software/modern Perl practices to build innovative e-payment, auction, and tax collection web applications.
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For the impatient, here's the wiki page providing the raw firehose of what was achieved there. -------------- Release a new distribution every month in 2014 http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2013/12/release-a-new-distribution-every-month-in-2014.html Looking for some challenging resolution for 2014? Neil Bowers has the right quest for you... -------------- ============= Articles Perl One-Liners: book review http://blog.sukria.net/2013/12/05/perl-one-liners-book-review/ Alexis Sukrieh reviews the new Perl book by Peteris Krumins. -------------- An interview with Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer http://perltricks.com/article/51/2013/12/5/-An-interview-with-Jeffrey-Ryan-Thalhammer How's Stratopan doing? Which editor is Jeffrey using? Does the mastermind of Perl::Critic always use it? Jeffrey Thalhammer reveals all in this shocking interview. ... Okay, perhaps not that shocking. Just, y'know, darn interesting. -------------- Can One Write Readable and Maintainable Perl? http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/12/can-one-write-readable-and-maintainable-perl.html Sinan Unur asks, and answers, the tough question. (spoiler alert: the article begins with a thundering 'YES') -------------- Programming Perl in popular culture http://www.programmingperl.org/2013/12/programming-perl-in-popular-culture/ Most people are looking for Waldo. brian d foy, however, prefers to be on the look-out for appearances of those books with the funny animals on the covers... -------------- ============= Code Data::ObjectDriver and JOIN http://www.pal-blog.de/entwicklung/perl/dataobjectdriver-and-join.html Sebastian Willing is experimenting with Data::ObjectDriver, and finds that the way it deals with foreign table joins is pretty darn good. -------------- Visualizing a CPAN install plan http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2013/12/visualizing-a-cpan-install-plan.html Aaah, those devious webs of dependencies we spin... Well, now we can have a visual idea of how tangled they are, thanks to brian d foy'd work at the patch -p1 Perl hackaton. -------------- Proper usage of the roles in Perl http://blog.celogeek.com/201312/387/proper-usage-of-the-roles-in-perl/ Celogeek brings our attention to quite a subtle role gotcha, and how to evade it. -------------- ============= Videos Distributed Applications With Perl & Gearman http://perltv.org/v/distributed-applications-with-perl-gearman -------------- ============= Perl 6 A few quick updates http://6guts.wordpress.com/2013/12/07/a-few-quick-updates/ A few updates on what's going on in the world of Rakudo these days. -------------- How to catch an exception in Perl 6 http://perl6maven.com/how-to-catch-an-exception-in-perl6 -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorial How to get notification when specific contact goes online in Skype? http://perlmaven.com/how-to-get-notification-when-specific-contacts-go-online-using-skype -------------- How to prepare for a Perl job interview? http://perlmaven.com/how-to-prepare-for-a-perl-job-interview -------------- ============= Weekly collections MetaCPAN Weekly Report - DBIx::Class & Mojolicious & Safe::Isa http://niceperl.blogspot.ca/2013/12/lxxxv-metacpan-weekly-report-dbixclass.html -------------- StackOverflow Perl report http://niceperl.blogspot.ca/2013/12/cx-stackoverflow-perl-report.html -------------- Perl 6 changes - 2013w49 http://glitchmr.github.io/perl-6-changes-2013W49.html -------------- ============= Events 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. 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