From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Dec 15 23:16:56 2013 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 23:16:56 -0800 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #125 - Snow, wind, no electricity, but plenty of Perl Message-ID: <20131216071656.9648876E3F3@s6.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/125.html Hi, I don't know about your part of the world, but we just had a major storm that even covered the 'near-by' pyramids in snow. Part of the country is still without electricity after 4 days, but we were lucky as we did not have any power-failure and the sun came back too. Anyhow, the Perlish Advent calendars supply many articles for you to read, but other people have not stopped to write either. You have plenty to read. Enjoy! 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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Please apply online ("http://bit.ly/19sbfam"). -------------- ============= Advent Calendars Plenty of articles have been published on the 4 active Perl-related Advent calendars. This is just a reminder that there is plenty to read on these sites. Perl http://bit.ly/19ylFAM -------------- Perl 6 http://bit.ly/IZ8y5v -------------- Catalyst http://bit.ly/19sbhPr -------------- Future http://bit.ly/IZ8Adr -------------- ============= Articles More WordPress grepping http://bit.ly/19sbfau This is the second post by brian d foy about WordPress::Grep, his new module and command line tool. -------------- Why I Don't Like Perl State Variables http://bit.ly/IZ8Adv Have you ever used the 'state' keyword in Perl? It is 'new' since 5.10 and it works like a 'static' variable in C. But do you really need it? Timm Murray from Wumpus Cave does not seem to like it. -------------- ============= Selfie Perl and Me, Part 2: The Power of OOP http://bit.ly/19sbhPB As you could guess from the title, this is already the 2nd part of the series Buddy Burden writes bare feet on his road in the programming world. A very interesting conversation with ones own self. -------------- ============= Testing CPAN Testers Summary - November 2013 - Fire Dances http://bit.ly/IZ8Adx The regular monthly report from Barbie. -------------- Single process versus parallel tests http://bit.ly/IZ8ylQ Ovid discusses the advantages of running tests in parallel - which are quite obvious (you get home earlier) - or maybe it isn't? He also describes his work on Test::Class, and Test::Class::Moose to make parallel processing a possibility there too. -------------- ============= CPAN The correct Makefile.PL incantation http://bit.ly/IZ8Ady How to do you handle installation of CPAN modules on production servers if you don't have direct access to the Internet? (I'd be more worried if someone has access to the Internet and installs the latest from CPAN.) -------------- ============= Applications and Frameworks OpenBedrock Moves to GitHub http://bit.ly/19sbfqN Bedrock is a server side web application development environment that can be used with Apache web servers. -------------- Convos: Chatting in the cloud with Mojolicious http://bit.ly/19sbfqP Convos is a web-based persistent IRC client. It will hold on to your IRC connections while you are away, but let's you use a web-based interface to chat in IRC. -------------- New Dancer 2 release: 0.11 http://bit.ly/19sbfqQ -------------- ============= Grants Maintaining the Perl 5 Core: Report for Month 1 http://bit.ly/IZ8ylU -------------- ============= Videos Build a start up! http://bit.ly/IZ8AdG Watch the first 2:20 minutes of the lightning talks from YAPC::NA in which JT Smith calls on you to build something. Build if for your own sake and for the sake of Perl. -------------- ============= Weekly collections MetaCPAN weekly report - Mojolicious http://bit.ly/19sbfr0 -------------- StackOverflow Perl report http://bit.ly/19sbimz -------------- Perl 6 changes - 2013W50 http://bit.ly/IZ8ylY -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials Contributing to a Perl module on CPAN (using vim and Github) http://bit.ly/IZ8ym5 This is an earlier screencast that can still be useful for you, it you are thinking about contributing to open source. As one of the readers pointed out: 'Your video was really eye opening. It showed me that I do not need to start very big as I was thinking, small contributions like that can really lead to big ones.' -------------- Eliminate circular reference memory-leak using weaken http://bit.ly/IZ8ym6 Because of the flexibility of Perl it is very easy to create circular references which, if not handled correctly, can easily cause memory leak. Here is how you can measure memory usage and how you can avoid circular references. -------------- Perl split - to cut up a string into pieces http://bit.ly/19sbfHo Example on how to use split assigning the result to an array or to a list of scalars. There is also an example using array slices to split on the fly without creating a temporary variable. -------------- ============= 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 -------------- 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. Want to see more? See the archives ( http://perlweekly.com/archive/ ) of all the issues. 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