From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Jan 26 23:34:53 2014
From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo)
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 23:34:53 -0800
Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #131 - blogs.perl.org cracked and fixed
Message-ID: <20140127073453.A245A76E041@s6.hostlocal.com>
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Hi,
this week was a bit stormy with a break-in to the server hosting
blogs.perl.org, and the fixing of it. Other than the description of this
break-in, you will find quite a few articles that might be interesting to
you.
The Dutch and Czech workshops were added to the list of events at the
bottom of this edition. Please check those out too!
Enjoy!
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Announcements
blogs.perl.org
http://bit.ly/1lfxiZ6
Someone broke into the blogs.perl.org site. Copied the users table and
posted some stupid page on the site. Ironically, the announcement came on
the Perl Hacks site run by Dave Cross, one of the maintainers of
blogs.perl.org
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The Return of blogs.perl.org
http://bit.ly/1lfxkQM
Three days later, the site was repaired and came back for you to read and
post there. Let's thank Aaron Crane and Dave Cross for the quick action.
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Articles
Horizontal Reuse: An Alternative to Inheritance
http://bit.ly/1lfxkQN
Posting on the programming blog of O'Reilly, Toby Inkster compares an
alternative to inheritance in Java, Ruby, PHP, and Perl using Moose.
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Want to help Gtk-Perl? Help update project information and metadata in Gtk-Perl modules!
http://bit.ly/1lfxiZb
Have you ever created desktop applications with Perl? Perhaps using
Gtk-Perl? Brian Manning describes what kind of changes he has made to
move the Gtk-Perl project forward and what you can help with. Four
non-programming items.
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A UserAgent class or role for an API?
http://bit.ly/1lfxiZc
Neil Bowers tells about his journey during which he was contemplating
several solution to creating a class in the BambooHR API. Ideas that came
up were: Plain code, Lazy builder, Delegation, and Roles.
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Testing
Test Suite Organization
http://bit.ly/1lfxkQO
Ovid explains why mirroring the class-structure of your module in the tests
as well is a good idea, and also gives some tips how to go about doing
it.
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Code
Make your code run faster with Perl's secret turbo module
http://bit.ly/1lfxl72
David Farrell describes the MCE, the Many-core Engine module of Mario E.
Roy. It provides parallel processing capabilities using either forks or
threads, whichever is available on your system.
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Perl's Special Named Code Blocks
http://bit.ly/1lfxl73
BEGIN, UNITCHECK, CHECK, INIT, END, DESTROY, DEMOLISH and AUTOLOAD. Just to
name a few.
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Benchmark JSON::XS vs Sereal vs Data::MessagePack
http://bit.ly/1lfxl76
Celogeek is working with Redis and so he was looking for a fast way to do
data serialization and deserialization in Perl. He checked 3 packages:
JSON::XS and Data::MesssagePack provide language-independent data
structures, while Sereal is only implemented for Perl. His recommended
solution is Data::MessagePack.
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CPAN
Curating CPAN one dist at a time
http://bit.ly/1lfxjfE
Neil Bowers crossed the line. He managed to get a module he has not written
by himself to be removed from CPAN. Some of you will highly appreciate
this work, others will detest it as killing a sacred cow. What do you
think? Would you like to encourage Neil to keep working on this, or do
you think there are other, more effective avenues to improve CPAN?
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Changes files and CPAN::Release::Spec
http://bit.ly/1lfxjfI
How and why keep your Changes file in standard form. If you are not a CPAN
author, then helping to standardize Changes files could be a simple way
to help the Perl and CPAN ecosystem. There are pointers in this post how
to see which distributions have Changes files that not according to the
spec. Then you can go ahead and help fix those.
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Dist::Zilla is for lovers
http://bit.ly/1lfxjw6
Last week there was quite a bit of anger ("http://bit.ly/1lfxl7d") flowing
towards Dist::Zilla, its users and author, to which David Golden
responded ("http://bit.ly/1lfxl7g") in a harsh way. Now Ricardo Signes,
the author of Dist::Zilla, tries to explain his position and tries to
calm people down. Last week I left out these links as I did not want to
give a stage for those haters in the original post, but now I feel it
might be better to share these.
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Fun
Learning Perl Challenge: March Madness
http://bit.ly/1lfxjwb
If you want to get people to notice Perl, or if you want to become a
millionaire (or both), brian d foy has a challenge for you.
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Repliconz - dev log 0
http://bit.ly/1lfxmrE
Getting started with Perl SDL (Simple DirectMedia Library). There is also a
blogs.perl.org ("http://bit.ly/1lfxlnJ") version of this post.
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Perl and Me, Part 7: The Most Powerful Weapon Which You Can Use to Change the World
http://blogs.perl.org/users/buddy_burden/2014/01/perl-and-me-part-7-the-most-powerful-weapon-which-you-can-use-to-change-the-world.html
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Interview
An interview with Steven Haryanto
http://bit.ly/1lfxlnM
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Slides
my $scalar;
http://bit.ly/1lfxlnN
Emma Howson has recently started to learn Perl. She decided to describe the
process and what she learned in a series of blog posts. A very welcomed
process. This time it is about scalar variables, and their declaration
using "my".
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Parrot
Parrot 6.0.0 "Red-necked Amazon" Released!
http://bit.ly/1lfxmrP
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Videos
David Oswald about Regular Expressions
http://bit.ly/1lfxlE5
55 min video presentation.
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Perl 6
January Rakudo Compiler Release: MoarVM support and much more
http://bit.ly/1lfxmI8
Jonathan Worthington explains the significance of the most recent release
of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler.
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Other
Perl at FOSDEM 2014: dev-room and stand
http://bit.ly/1lfxlEb
Just another reminder for those who like beer or chocolate, or are
otherwise near-by Brussels, Belgium. FOSDEM will take place on 1-2
February. There will be a Perl dev-room on Saturday and a Perl booth to
visit both days.
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Weekly collections
MetaCPAN weekly report - Perl
http://bit.ly/1lfxmIf
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StackOverflow Perl report
http://bit.ly/1lfxlEi
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Perl Maven Tutorials
EOF - End of file in Perl
http://bit.ly/1lfxmIl
In other languages you might need to use eof(), but in Perl you almost
never need it. Here is why.
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What are string and numeric contexts?
http://bit.ly/1lfxmYE
The first guest post of Curtis "Ovid" Poe on the Perl Maven site. We talked
about scalar and list context earlier, but do you know what is numeric
context and string context? Ovid explains.
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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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Dutch Perl Workshop 2014
http://bit.ly/1ffHbRk
25 April 2014, Utrech, The Netherlands
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Polish Perl Workshop 2014
http://bit.ly/1cOHnCx
16-18 May, 2014 in Poznan, Poland
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Czech Perl Workshop
http://bit.ly/1ld4Fvu
20-21 May 2014, Prague, Czech Republic
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