From gabor at szabgab.com  Mon Jan  6 07:56:23 2014
From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo)
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:56:23 -0800
Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #128 - Out With the Old. In With the New
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Perl Weekly 

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http://perlweekly.com/archive/128.html



Welcome everyone to this brand-sparkling new year! This week, we have for
you a lot of looks back to 2013, as well as some new stuff -- releases,
initiatives, projects, programming patterns -- that seems to indicate that
2014 is going to be a very good year indeed. ~ `/anick 




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Announcements

  
  Perl APIs
  http://perlhacks.com/2014/01/perl-apis
 
  So there are all those web services out there, with glorious APIs. And they
  have documentation pages, offering helpful examples. Often in Ruby,
  Python,  in PHP, perhaps even in Java. In Perl? Alas, that happens more
  rarely. Dave Cross, bless his heart, wants to fix that.
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  The DFW Winter Hackaton
  http://dfw.pm.org/
 
  It's not too late! The Hackaton ends on the 8th, so provided you have
  enough coffee and ramen noodle packs close by, you still have time to
  join.
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Articles

  
  The CPAN Report 2013
  http://neilb.org/cpan-report/
 
  Neil Bowers offers us a CPAN-based retrospective of 2013. Which namespace
  had the most growth? Which author released the most distribution? How
  many new modules were born? He presents the shocking answers to all those
  questions.  (warning: seeing the statistics of the most CPAN prolific
  authors is likely to make you feel like an unredeemable slacker)
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  Planet Moose - December 2013
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/toby_inkster/2014/01/planet-moose---december-2013.html
 
  Thought that December was strictly for reindeers? Hah! Toby Inkster proves
  you wrong.
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  The Year in Perl, 2013 Retrospective
  http://www.perl.com/pub/2014/01/the-year-in-perl-2013-retrospective.html
 
  2013 was a pleasantly busy year in the Perlverse. chromatic presents here
  the highlight of the last twelve months.
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  10 best perl distributions created at 2013 (metacpan rating)
  http://niceperl.blogspot.ca/2014/01/best-perl-distributions-created-at-2013.html
 
  Want to have the awesomeness of a full year of brilliant minds doing
  brilliant things distilled into 10 bullet points? Here's the top ten
  distributions of 2013, according to their metacpan ratings.
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Discussion

  
  Perl Benchmark Cache with Expires and Max Size
  http://blog.celogeek.com/201401/426/perl-benchmark-cache-with-expires-and-max-size/
 
  Caching. In a nutshell, we want it to be fast, reliable and not too much of
  a pig, memory-wise. Celogeek helpfully benchmarks here a few of the
  typically used caching modules/solutions.
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  The Limits of a Programming Language Vision
  http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2014/01/the-limits-of-a-programming-language-vision.html
 
  chromatic muses on the balancing act for a programming language of having a
  vision, and yet not allowing itself not to be blinded by it.
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  Ephemeral methods, or what to call 'dispatch to a variable containing a subref'? 
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2014/01/ephemeral-methods-or-what-to-call-dispatch-to-a-variable-containing-a-subref.html
 
  Just when you thought you seen it all... Joel Berger comes here with what
  seems to be a new coding pattern.
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Code

  
  A New Year, a New Dancecard
  http://techblog.babyl.ca/entry/dancecard
 
  Yanick revisits his old idea of a web library tool, meant to complement and
  work with your favorite web framework.
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  The perils of & (and prototypes too!)
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2013/12/the-perils-of-and-prototypes-too.html
 
  Prototypes and the use of '&' for function invocation... two things newbies
  gleefully hamstrings themselves with. Joel Berger shows us here a good
  example why those constructs are tricky, and should be used with caution.
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  Sereal v2 Finally Released as Stable
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/steffen_mueller/2013/12/sereal-v2-finally-released-as-stable.html
 
  Steffen Mueller announces the official release of Sereal v2, the
  serialization protocol concocted by the fine folks at Booking.com.
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  Introducing Sub::Trigger::Lock
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/toby_inkster/2014/01/introducing-subtriggerlock.html
 
  Not only want your attributes to be read-only, but also want to ensure that
  whatever structure they point too stays unmodified? Toby Inkster has a
  solution for you.
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  Shazam! Use Image::Magick with Perlbrew in minutes
  http://perltricks.com/article/57/2014/1/1/Shazam-Use-Image-Magick-with-Perlbrew-in-minutes
 
  Most Perl modules are trivial to install. A select few are however... ah,
  shall we say, more challengeful? Image::Magick is definitively an emerit
  member of this very exclusive teeth-gnashing club. But take heart: David
  Farrell shares with us the proper incantation to summon this most useful
  image manipulation module to your machine.
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  Create your own Test::Mojo method
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2014/01/create-your-own-testmojo-method.html
 
  Want to add a method to Test::Mojo, but don't want to commit the sin of
  monkey-patching? Joel Berger is there to offer you a more virtuous
  alternative.
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Videos

  
  Creating a CPAN distribution with Milla
  http://perltv.org/v/creating-a-cpan-distribution-with-milla
 
  Miyagawa walks us through minting a new distribution with Milla, his 
  user-friendlier, customized Dist::Zilla wrapper application.
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Weekly collections

  
  MetaCPAN Weekly Report - Module::Starter::Smart
  http://niceperl.blogspot.co.il/2013/12/lxxxix-metacpan-weekly-report.html
 
  
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  StackOverflow Perl report
  http://niceperl.blogspot.co.il/2014/01/cxiv-stackoverflow-perl-report.html
 
  
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Perl Maven Tutorials

  
  Minimal requirement to build a sane CPAN package
  http://perlmaven.com/minimal-requirement-to-build-a-sane-cpan-package
 
  
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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.
  
  Perl Oasis West
  http://bit.ly/1i3ikmn
 
  January 25th, 2014, Tampa, Florida, USA
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  German Perl Workshop (GPW 2014)
  http://bit.ly/10WS00y
 
  March 26-28, 2014, Hannover, Germany
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  Polish Perl Workshop 2014
  http://bit.ly/1cOHnCx
 
  16-18 May, 2014 in Poznan, Poland
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