[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #132 - The state of the butterfly

Mon Feb 3 00:45:18 PST 2014

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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 <b>win</b> 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 <b>your</b> 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 Simões 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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