From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Feb 3 00:45:18 2014
From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo)
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 00:45:18 -0800
Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #132 - The state of the butterfly
Message-ID: <20140203084518.808B976E33A@s6.hostlocal.com>
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http://perlweekly.com/archive/132.html
Hi there
Some changes: starting from this week, the newsletter will only include
updates about Perl events, not a regular listing of upcoming events.
Instead of that you are encouraged to visit the web site for the full list.
See the link at the bottom of the newsletter.
Otherwise, just enjoy and learn:
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Announcements
Announcing: the Perl Nerd Merit Badge contest
http://bit.ly/1gFEL1F
Would you like to win a Perl Nerd Badge with a Velociraptor on it?
You only have to write an article for the Perltricks site and submit it
before February 21, 2014.
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Articles
Fatal warnings are a ticking time bomb (via chromatic)
http://bit.ly/1gFEMm7
You might know that warnings can be changed to throw exceptions in a
lexical scope. What you might not know is that some modules, that turn on
'use strict' - for example Moo, will also change the warnings into
exceptions. I don't think the fear created in the title is warranted, but
it is better to remind ourselves of this behavior. In any case, you can
comment on the article to voice your frustration.
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Planet Moose - January 2014
http://bit.ly/1gFELhY
The monthly news report of Toby Inkster on Object Oriented side of Perl,
with a strong focus on Moose, Moo, and related modules.
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A Song of Graph and Report, Part I: A Gathering of Stats
http://bit.ly/1gFELhZ
Yanick Champoux wants to create a 'Map of CPAN' for a single CPAN
distribution. Here is how he started collecting the data.
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Code
Exceptions in Perl, Then and Now
http://bit.ly/1gFELi0
Should one use the Error and Error::Simple modules for exceptions?
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Web
Perl Catalyst "Runner" Development Release 5 on CPAN
http://bit.ly/1gFEMmi
John Napiorkowski describes what is in this release. As a Catalyst user it
is very important that you check out this release and make sure your
application works with it as well.
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Scientific Perl
NIST opens up atoms with open source
http://bit.ly/1gFEMmj
Introducing Demeter which is a scientific software for the processing and
analysis of XAS data built using Perl, wxWidgets, Gnuplot, and other open
source technologies.
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Fun
Perl and Me, Part 8: Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful
http://bit.ly/1gFEMCz
Buddy Burden continuous exploring his relationship to Perl. This time he
discusses the need for the language to change and evolve.
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Grants
Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for Month 5
http://bit.ly/1gFELi7
The report of Tony Cook - Approximately 30 tickets were worked on, and 10
patches were applied.
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New Secretary Elected for the Grants Committee
http://bit.ly/1gFEMCH
Makoto Nozaki has replaced Alberto Sim?es as the secretary of The Perl
Foundation grant committee.
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CPAN
Why installing Dist::Zilla is slow and what you can do about it
http://bit.ly/1gFEMCL
David Golden checked the worst-case scenario, when you have a freshly
installed perl and you need to install Dist::Zilla with more than 170
dependencies and suggests two ways to reduce the install-time. Even with
those it will probably take more than 10 minutes. Just enough to do get
up from your chair and do some exercises.
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CPAN adoption request template
http://bit.ly/1gFEMCM
Would you like to adopt a CPAN module but don't know where and how to ask?
Neil Bowers explains all of that.
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CPAN Release Task::Jenkins 0.05
http://bit.ly/1gFELia
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Announcing Pinto 0.099
http://bit.ly/1gFELys
CPAN Is like A Box of Chocolates. Pinto is a powerful tool for creating and
managing a private chocolate box.
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My first release of WebService::BambooHR
http://bit.ly/1gFEMT9
BambooHR is a commercial web-based HR (Human Resources) information system.
This package created by Neil Bowers is the Perl module to access their
public API.
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Videos
Downloading age-restricted videos from YouTube
http://bit.ly/1gFEMTd
Curtis Brandt used WWW::YouTube::Download to download videos from YouTube,
but had an issue with the ones where age limit was set. He solved it.
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Continuously integrating Perl projects with Vagrant
http://bit.ly/1gFEMTg
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Perl 6
Rakudo Star Release 2014.01
http://bit.ly/1gFEMTi
Last week there was an article explaining what was new in the latest
release of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler. This release of Rakudo Star
contains the latest version of the compiler with a bunch of extra
modules.
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Perl 6: what can you do today? - The state of the butterfly
http://bit.ly/1gFEMTj
The slides of Jonathan Worthington for his talk at FOSDEM. (thanks to Steve
Mynott for the link)
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Other
Randomness and statistical concepts
http://bit.ly/1gFEMTl
This is strictly for people who understand statistics, or who want to
understand it! Sinan Unur explains why the statements of Ovid when using
random dice rolls, were incorrect.
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Learn How to Program Perl
http://bit.ly/1gFEN9z
A relatively new web site for people who would like to learn Perl by Chris
Kildegaard, a high school student in California.
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Training
Back to Zurich
http://bit.ly/1gFELyC
Damian Conway is going to be back in Zurich giving a few training classes.
Get ready!
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Weekly collections
MetaCPAN weekly report - Moo::Lax
http://bit.ly/1gFEN9E
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StackOverflow Perl report
http://bit.ly/1gFEN9H
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Perl Maven Tutorials
Chomp and $/, the Input Record Separator
http://bit.ly/1gFELyH
'Chomp removes the trailing newline of a string.' says the common sense,
but does it? What does chomp really do? And what is $/?
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Constructor and accessors in classic Perl OOP
http://bit.ly/1gFELyJ
While in new Perl applications you might prefer to use Moo or Moose, but
there are plenty of cases when classic Perl OOP is needed. For example
when you need to maintain an existing application. This is the first
article of a series of articles explaining the core Perl OOP.
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Perl based open source products
http://bit.ly/1gFEN9K
A list of open source, Perl based products that you can use, or even help
develop.
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New Events
AmsterdamX.pm hosting a Perl hackathon!
http://bit.ly/1gFEOua
The hackathon will be held during February 8-9, 2014 in the Technologia
Incognita hackspace, in Amsterdam.
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Perl-related events
http://bit.ly/1bkDys0
In the following cities: Amsterdam, Hannover, Utrech, Poznan, Prague, Kiev,
Orlando (FL)
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