[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #134 - Say It With Flowers

Sun Feb 16 23:09:18 PST 2014

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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.
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  DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop 2014
  http://bit.ly/1f88uxa

  3 May, 2014, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  Reflecting on the DFW.pm winter hackathon competition
  http://bit.ly/1lZpkQF

  Joel Berger reminesces on his DFW deduplication contest entry.
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  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.
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  Perl and Me, Part 10: What We Talk About When We Talk About DWIM
  http://bit.ly/1lZpkQP

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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.
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  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?"
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  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.
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  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).
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Testing

  Devel::Cover - are you covered?
  http://bit.ly/1lZpl76

  Minesh Patel gives an introduction to the joys of Devel::Cover.
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  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.
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  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.
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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).
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  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.
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  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.
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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.
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  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.
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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.
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  Jay Hannah Chief Ticket Monkey of the Perl Mongers International
  http://bit.ly/1lZpnvZ

  Interview with Jay from last year.
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Weekly collections

  MetaCPAN Weekly Report - Ack::Starter::Smart
  http://bit.ly/1lZplnQ

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  StackOverflow Perl report
  http://bit.ly/1lZpnw2

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Perl Maven Tutorials

  Package variables and Lexical variables in Perl
  http://bit.ly/1lZpnMi

  What is my and what is our?
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  $, the output field separator, and $" the list separator of Perl
  http://bit.ly/1lZplE9

  Two 'magic' variables in Perl.
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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), Flörli Olten (CH)
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