From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Feb 16 23:09:18 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 23:09:18 -0800 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #134 - Say It With Flowers Message-ID: <20140217070918.703F576E168@s6.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/134.html Authoring modules on CPAN is very often an act of love, and from all times the community explored ways to say 'thank you' to the people who make the Perl ecosystem what it is. Recently, the site Gittip caught a few eyes, and now sees a budding Perl community. Some of the links of this week discuss how to join the party, and why it might a good thing. Beyond this, we have news of a new Mojolicious-centered conference happening in May, a preview of what's coming in Perl 5.20, and a nice collection of tutorials. Enjoy! ~ `/anick Announcements The first Mojoconf happening in May http://bit.ly/1jsRlP9 A new 3-day conference revolving around Perl, the web and Mojolicious is coming to Oslo in May 23-25, 2014. -------------- DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop 2014 http://bit.ly/1f88uxa 3 May, 2014, Silver Spring, MD, USA -------------- ============= Articles The Fun of Running a Public Web Service, and Session Storage http://bit.ly/1lZpkA4 Moritz Lenz's website Sudokugarden recently got a sizable spike in its traffic. With great success come scaling snags. He shares with us the problems the site hit, and what he did to work around them. -------------- Using DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader to find design flaws http://bit.ly/1lZpkA7 DBIx::Class is a pretty useful piece of software. Ovid, however, takes it one step further and leverages its mechanisms to help in the design and sanity-check of database schemas. -------------- PostgreSQL: Monitor sequence scans with Perl http://bit.ly/1lZpkA8 The key to a healthy database is eagle eyes. Johnny Morano shares with us how he gathers and reports statistics from his PostgreSQL database. -------------- CPAN Testers Follow-Up: Progress Is Made http://bit.ly/1lZpkAe You release a module to CPAN. And then, boom, error reports begin to pour in. What to do? Is panic the appropriate reaction? Randy J. Ray shares his experience, and his recommendations on how to stop worrying, and love the reports. -------------- Cool new Perl feature: postfix dereferencing http://bit.ly/1lZpmYX David Farrell shows us one of the new cool features coming in Perl 5.20. -------------- Lists, Lists, Lists http://bit.ly/1lZpmZ0 The difference between arrays and lists is a subtle one, and tripped more than one beginner. Emma Howson discusses those two beasties, highlighting in which ways they are alike and differ. -------------- Reflecting on the DFW.pm winter hackathon competition http://bit.ly/1lZpkQF Joel Berger reminesces on his DFW deduplication contest entry. -------------- Speed comparisons of HTTP clients in Perl http://bit.ly/1lZpkQK Martin Evans benchmarks the main Perl HTTP clients, reasserting the merit of some old workhorses, and introducing some interesting newcomers. -------------- Perl and Me, Part 10: What We Talk About When We Talk About DWIM http://bit.ly/1lZpkQP -------------- ============= Discussion Everything needs an ID http://bit.ly/1lZpnfo Why? Because it's usually simple to do, and makes things easy. Mark Dominus makes the case for the ever-useful unique identifier. -------------- Perl Today http://bit.ly/1lZpnfp Twelve of the current big Perl players have been asked the question: "This is February 2014. What's the state of Perl?" -------------- I bought a weekly round for my friends http://bit.ly/1lZpnfq Peter Rabbitson (aka. Ribasushi) embraced the current Perl Gittip movement, and argues how it can be a good way to give a nod to your favorite CPAN authors. -------------- Add your gittip id to your MetaCPAN account http://bit.ly/1lZpnfr Gittip now has a Perl community. If you are a CPAN author, you should consider joining. Here, Neil Bowers shows you how to add a gittip icon to your MetaCPAN account (spoiler: it's super easy). -------------- ============= Testing Devel::Cover - are you covered? http://bit.ly/1lZpl76 Minesh Patel gives an introduction to the joys of Devel::Cover. -------------- CPAN Testers Summary - January 2014 - In Through The Out Door http://bit.ly/1lZpl7b Barbies offers a view of what's happening in the Perl world, through tester's lenses. -------------- Easy Fixtures With DBIx::Class http://bit.ly/1lZpl7f Testing with databases is typically hard and messy. Yet, sanity might shines at the end of the tunnel: Ovid has a new way to manage those unruly fixtures. -------------- ============= Code Git::CPAN::Patch Gets A Bit More Magic http://bit.ly/1lZpnvM On the outside, the new version of Git::CPAN::Patch will now clone the official git repository of a module if available. On the inside, Yanick discusses how to write tests for a module that pushes all of the hard buttons (command-line scripts, file/directory meddlings, network access, the works). -------------- Making Oozie Logs A Little Easier On The Eyes http://bit.ly/1lZpnvN Hadoop's Oozie logs are a little... noisy. To be able to pare them down to something readable, Yanick wrote a small script. -------------- Moose ported to Ruby http://bit.ly/1lZpl7n Code in Ruby? Love Moose? Rejoice, for there is now a port of our favorite ungulated OO system in the land of gems. -------------- ============= Web CGI.pm needs a new maintainer http://bit.ly/1lZplnE Lincoln Stein, the original creator of CGI.pm, the module that helped lots of people in the 90's and that's is still in use in many places, is now looking for a new primary maintainer for the module. Its your chance for fame. Or at least to contribute to the greater good. -------------- Snapshot 2014* - Perl on the Web http://bit.ly/1lZplnH The results of the survey of the Perl Web Development job market conducted by Andrew Solomon. -------------- ============= Videos Stupid CPAN Tricks http://bit.ly/1lZplnL Video of JT Smith's talk. And if those are stupid tricks, I guess we probably could all use a few more concussions in our lives. -------------- Jay Hannah Chief Ticket Monkey of the Perl Mongers International http://bit.ly/1lZpnvZ Interview with Jay from last year. -------------- ============= Weekly collections MetaCPAN Weekly Report - Ack::Starter::Smart http://bit.ly/1lZplnQ -------------- StackOverflow Perl report http://bit.ly/1lZpnw2 -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials Package variables and Lexical variables in Perl http://bit.ly/1lZpnMi What is my and what is our? -------------- $, the output field separator, and $" the list separator of Perl http://bit.ly/1lZplE9 Two 'magic' variables in Perl. -------------- ============= Events Perl-related events http://bit.ly/1bkDys0 In the following cities: Lyon (FR), Hannover (DE), Swindon (UK), Utrecht (NL), Silver Spring, (MD/USA), Poznan (PL), Prague (CZ), Oslo (NO), Kiev (UA), Orlando (FL/US), Sofia (BG), Fl?rli Olten (CH) -------------- ============= You joined the Perl Weekly to get weekly e-mails about the Perl programming language and related topics. 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