From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Feb 10 00:08:05 2014
From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:08:05 -0800
Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #133 - More Perl events
Message-ID: <20140210080805.6E71576E2A4@s6.hostlocal.com>
Perl Weekly
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You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer.
http://perlweekly.com/archive/133.html
Just a reminder, from now on the Perl Weekly newsletter only includes newly
added events and the other events are listed on the web site. This is to
avoid boring you with the same links again and again. Yet there are 4 new
events added at the bottom of this edition. (Partly because they were left
out by mistake earlier, partly because they are newly scheduled). In any
case, you'll find evens all over the world, but especially around Europe.
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Articles
Perl and Me, Part 9: That's Why I Failed Recess
http://bit.ly/1cn8wN2
It is Buddy Burden again, explaining how Perl is the language that Gets
Shit Done, but probably a lot more importantly, he explained his
process of finding candidates for employment. I know not many companies
work that way, but I think it is great. I love it!
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Why you should use getcwd and not cwd
http://bit.ly/1cn8wN5
I keep using the cwd() function from the Cwd module when I need the current
working directory, but I think David Golden has a point. I should just
change the habit and start using getcwd().
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Parsing HTML with Perl
http://bit.ly/1cn8uF2
An article by A. Sinan Unur using regexes and HTML::TokeParser::Simple.
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Testing
Making our training material public
http://bit.ly/1cn8wN8
Curtis 'Ovid' Poe, who runs the company called 'All Around the World' with
his wife, has released some of their test-training materials under the
Creative Commons by-nc license.
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Code
Introducing warnings::MaybeFatal
http://bit.ly/1cn8wNh
Last week we saw some discussion about the problems FATAL warnings can
cause. In response to that, Toby Inkster created a module that will leave
run-time warnings alone and only turn compile-time warning into
exceptions.
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3 ways to include data with your Perl distribution
http://bit.ly/1cn8x3y
Use __DATA__, Use FindBin to locate the data file, Makefile.PL / Build.PL
and use File::Share. See the explanation of David Farrell.
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Databases
Debian, MariaDB, Perl and DBD::mysql
http://bit.ly/1cn8x3z
Ron Savage describes how he installed DBD::mysql and used it to access
MariaDB.
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Web
Dancer In Chains
http://bit.ly/1cn8x3G
Yanick Champoux writes: Something that Catalyst has and Dancer doesn't
is chained routes. But he cannot leave it that way, can he?
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CPAN Stability++
http://bit.ly/1cn8x3N
Before every release, John Napiorkowski checks if Catalyst with all of its
117 dependencies can be installed on a clean Perl. Spoiler: it can be.
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PearlBee - Open source blogging platform in Perl
http://bit.ly/1cn8uVv
(reddit
("http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1wzk0h/pearlbee_new_blogging_engi
ne_written_in_perl/"))
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CPAN
What's new on CPAN - January 2014
http://bit.ly/1cn8uVy
An excellent compilation by David Farrell of some of the newly released
modules on CPAN.
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Lessons learned publishing my first CPAN module
http://bit.ly/1cn8uVB
Ali Anari from Crowdt:lt while creating and upload
WebService::NationBuilder to CPAN.
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Set::Jaccard::SimilarityCoefficient v0.5.1
http://bit.ly/1cn8uVC
As Mark Leighton Fisher explains: the Jaccard Similarity Coefficient is
a simple measure of how similar 2 sets are.
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Iterating over all CPAN releases
http://bit.ly/1cn8xkg
This is mostly for researchers, who, for some strange reason, would like to
research the content of ancient distributions uploaded to CPAN.
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mtools v2.0.0 - Now with pmtools::new_pod_iterator()!
http://bit.ly/1cn8xAH
pmtools aka. Perl Module Tools ("http://bit.ly/1cn8xAB") is a collection of
command line tools that can show you the location of a module, the
version number, etc.
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Perl Module Release: RPC-XML 0.78
http://bit.ly/1cn8vcb
After a long break, finally Randy J. Ray has released a new version of his
module and even blogged about it!. The next day the CPAN Testers sent him
fail reports ("http://bit.ly/1cn8xAN"), which lead to some interesting
bug hunting. (I hope he'll post about that too).
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Perl Memory::Stats ? Get RSS memory reporting on multiple platforms
http://bit.ly/1cn8vsu
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Fun
Adopting URI::Title
http://bit.ly/1cn8y7G
It is a really great description of how BooK found an unmaintained module,
got ownership in a nice way and released a new version of the module.
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Renaming Nikon photograph files with Perl
http://bit.ly/1cn8y7J
One of the tools that I saw have brought people to use Perl was
Image::ExifTool. Martin Evans show a simple use-case.
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Grants
Google Summer of Code 2014
http://bit.ly/1cn8y7N
The Perl Foundation wants to participate in the GSOC again. It is looking
for mentors!
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Grants Committee Changes
http://bit.ly/1cn8vJ6
Daisuke Maki has replaced Ren?e B?cker.
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Moose
Looking for Moose in all the Wrong Places
http://bit.ly/1cn8y7U
How to use (or avoid) the before and after method modifiers of Moose.
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Videos
Vim for Perl Development
http://bit.ly/1cn8yod
I have been using Vim for many years, but watching this video taught me so
many new things. Presented by Doug Miles at the Phoenix Perl Mongers
meeting.
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Code Attributes
http://bit.ly/1cn8vZz
Finally I understood what the attributes on functions can do. They are like
decorators in Python, but way more powerful. Presented by Steve Baker at
the Phoenix Perl Mongers meeting.
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Hardware
Join Perl Hardware and help organize the Hardware Hackathon at YAPC::NA::2014
http://bit.ly/1cn8yEI
See also the mailing list ("http://bit.ly/1cn8vZD") or contact Robert
Blackwell directly. (reddit ("http://bit.ly/1cn8vZH"))
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Other
Perl vs Python 2013, some actual stats..
http://bit.ly/1cn8yEL
Matthew Wilson (diakopter) invested quite some time to compare stats on
Perl vs other programming languages. Especially Python. Does not look
good. So what does this mean to you? reddit ("http://bit.ly/1cn8vZN").
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The Popularity of Perl in 2013
http://bit.ly/1cn8yEN
My collection of some numbers. Most interesting are the Google Analytics
graphs from blogs.perl.org, MetaCPAN, and search.cpan.org.
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Training
Polyglot pattern matching in London
http://bit.ly/1cn8BAk
Damian Conway will run a class called Understanding Regular
Expressions in London on 12th March. See the description and the link
to registration.
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Weekly collections
MetaCPAN weekly report - Moose
http://bit.ly/1cn8BAu
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StackOverflow Perl report
http://bit.ly/1cn8zbU
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Perl Maven Tutorials
Stringification in classic Perl OOP
http://bit.ly/1cn8BR0
As part of the series describing the class Object Oriented System of Perl,
this article shows operator overloading.
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Class method and alternative constructor in classic Perl OOP
http://bit.ly/1cn8BR3
The 3rd part of the classic OOP series.
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The ternary operator in Perl
http://bit.ly/1cn8zsq
Do you know what is the real name of the ternary operator?
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Events
Perl at FOSDEM: a big thank you!
http://bit.ly/1cn8BR8
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QA Hackathon 2014
http://bit.ly/1j6DaSJ
March 13-16, 2014, Lyon, France
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DBIx::Class Themed Hackathon
http://bit.ly/1bnl9L8
April 2014, Swindon, UK
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YAPC::EU 2014
http://bit.ly/1cNoHqW
22-24 August, 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Swiss Perl Workshop 2014
http://bit.ly/1exVzUV
5-6 September, 2014, Fl?rli Olten, Switzerland
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Perl-related events
http://bit.ly/1bkDys0
In the following cities: Lyon (FR), Hannover (DE), Swindon (UK), Utrecht
(NL), Poznan (PL), Prague (CZ), Kiev (UA), Orlando (FL/US), Sofia (BG),
Fl?rli Olten (CH)
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