From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Feb 23 23:57:38 2014
From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 23:57:38 -0800
Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #135 - What are you doing?
Message-ID: <20140224075738.3105576E2F5@s6.hostlocal.com>
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http://perlweekly.com/archive/135.html
Hi,
Two new events added: one in Cluj, Romania and the other in Paris. See them
at the end of the edition along with links to lots of other Perl-related
events.
A few days ago, I started to build a new site called EduMaven
("http://edumaven.com/"), where I am going to publish slides of my courses.
At first I think I am going to stick to the non-Perl courses. With your
help, I'll get lots of new visitors, and then unleash the Perl slides on
them. Does that sound like a good plan?
Anyway, enjoy the weekly dose of Perl articles:
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Articles
How does sort actually work?
http://bit.ly/1cfoycg
Emma Howson is learning Perl and writing about it.
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Use DBIx-Class via delegation instead of inheritance
http://bit.ly/1cfoyci
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Testing
Test Suites: To Critic or Not?
http://bit.ly/1cfoAkm
Using Perl::Critic to improve the code of your module is important, but is
it also important to use it to clean up your tests? Asks Randy J. Ray.
(hint: yes)
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Code
Getting a progress report from a running program
http://bit.ly/1cfoAkn
Excellent example using signals to ask a program: What are you doing?
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Web
Proposed Quests for Perl Catalyst "Ancona" Open for Comments
http://bit.ly/1cfoAko
John Napiorkowski has a farm and raises all kinds of animals. Not
surprising that he named the next release of Catalyst after the Ancona
Duck.
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Is PearlBee Perl's next great blogging platform?
http://bit.ly/1cfoysI
David Farrel describes how to get started with this new blogging platform.
Have you started to use it? If yes, please let me know, even if the blog
is not about Perl. (reddit ("http://bit.ly/1cfoysD"))
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CPAN
Make sure your modules have a compliant abstract
http://bit.ly/1cfoAAI
Neil Bowers continues his quest to make CPAN a better place. This time he
calls upon the CPAN authors to make sure the one-line abstract they have
for their modules is well formatted. (This is another excellent
opportunity to get your feet wet if you'd like to contribute to a CPAN
module. Help an author fix the tag-line.)
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New Perl DBD::ODBC 1.47 release
http://bit.ly/1cfoAAN
Martin Evans uploaded the latest production version to CPAN.
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Announcing Chat::iFly
http://bit.ly/1cfoAAS
JT Smith implemented the Perl side of the iflychat
("http://bit.ly/1cfoysL") web chat service so you can integrate it with
your website.
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CPAN's social continuity of code
http://bit.ly/1cfoAB0
brian d foy describes the background, how modules on CPAN that have lost
their original author can live on, and gain a new maintainer. brian also
mentioned the available RSS feeds on Perl authors on O'Reilly
Programming blog ("http://bit.ly/1cfoysO").
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I've uploaded a major release of Constant::Export::Lazy
http://bit.ly/1cfoARh
By ?var Arnfj?r? Bjarmason.
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Fun
Announcing: The Great UAV::Pilot Split
http://bit.ly/1cfoysR
Timm Murray reporting from the Wumpus Cave: The UAV::Pilot distribution is
going to be split into several smaller distributions.
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Grants
2013 Year end report
http://bit.ly/1cfoysS
This is the annual report of The Perl Foundation. Many thanks to Dan Wright
who started to produce these reports in the last 2 or 3 years.
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Parrot
Parrot 6.1.0 "Black-collared Lovebird" released
http://bit.ly/1cfoARq
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People
The Mid-Career Crisis of the Perl Programmer
http://bit.ly/1cfoyJb
It is chromatic reaching a certain age an contemplating his past and
future. A good read for some of us with comments on reddit
("http://bit.ly/1cfoARv").)
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Perl and Me, Part 11: Please Mr. Perl, Will You DWIM?
http://bit.ly/1cfoyJe
Part 11 of the series Buddy Burden has been publishing.
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Perl 6
Changes during week 7 of 2014 Feb 17
http://bit.ly/1cfoyJj
MoarVM ("http://bit.ly/1cfoB7M") has it own web site, doc.perl6.org
("http://bit.ly/1cfoyJh") became prettier among many other news.
Including a section on how can you get involved.
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Other
Never be afraid to change your design
http://bit.ly/1cfoyJk
JT Smith shows several stages in the design of space looks like in Lacuna
Expanse.
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Please Join Gittip
http://bit.ly/1cfoyJl
Gittip is a place where you can set up a regular weekly contribution to
someone (probably an open source developer). Last week Peter Rabbitson
called upon the Perl community to join Gittip and start giving a few
dollars a week, this time it is Ovid. His point was that even just having
Perl on the front page of Gittip will help Perl. Indeed his call brought
Perl from the 19th place to the 10th place. I think we can do even
better. The only thing you need to do is to join the 'Perl community' at
Gittip. This is free. - Of course I'd go further and call upon you to
start sending a few dollars a week.
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Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor
http://bit.ly/1cfoB7Y
Some background story about DDG on how they care about our privacy, and a
few words on the fact that they mostly use Perl. - They currently serve
more than 4,000,000 search queries per day.
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Weekly collections
MetaCPAN weekly report - DBI & Kelp
http://bit.ly/1cfoyJm
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StackOverflow perl report
http://bit.ly/1cfoBoh
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Perl Maven Tutorials
Packages, modules, distributions, and namespaces in Perl
http://bit.ly/1cfoyZD
Is the meaning of the above words clear to you? Do you maybe use some of
them interchangeably? Have some of those several different meanings?
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Random numbers in forked processes
http://bit.ly/1cfoBol
Have you encountered the problem that forked processes generate the same
series of random numbers? Here is why, and how to avoid it.
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Events
Sponsoring Perl events by running Perl training courses
http://bit.ly/1cfoBom
Perl events need funding. Developers need training. Companies need more
knowledgeable developer. Some of us like teaching and visiting places. A
win-win situation. So if you are an organizer, please get in touch, but
if you are a would be attendee at one of the events, you could also
contact the organizers and ask them about courses.
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Perl counts of Transylvania
http://bit.ly/1bTIUgB
March 31, 2014, Cluj, Romania
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French Perl Workshop 2014
http://bit.ly/1geRZNL
13-14 June 2014, Paris, France
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Perl-related events
http://bit.ly/1bkDys0
In the following cities: Lyon (FR), Hannover (DE), Cluj (RO), Swindon (UK),
Utrecht (NL), Silver Spring, (MD/USA), Poznan (PL), Prague (CZ), Oslo
(NO), Paris (FR), Kiev (UA), Orlando (FL/US), Sofia (BG), Fl?rli Olten
(CH)
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