From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Mar 17 10:42:49 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:42:49 -0700 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #138 - Would you like to have a Perl conference in your European city? Message-ID: <20140317174249.6C92076E064@s6.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/138.html Hi, sorry for the delayed posting, I had an unplanned 2-days vacation with my daughter. It was great. I hope you also enjoyed your weekend, and you are ready for a new set of articles: Announcements Call for Venue for YAPC::Europe::2015 http://bit.ly/1iVCn7Z Would you like to have a Perl conference in your (European) city? This is your chance to put your city on the world map! The dead-line for sending letter of intent is Friday, 25 April, and then you'll still have 2 months to actually prepare your proposal or hide under a stone. -------------- German Perl Workshop 2014 - Just 20 tickets left - T-14 days http://bit.ly/1iVCn84 That was on March 11. I am not sure if they still have any more tickets left. -------------- Czech Perl Workshop http://bit.ly/1iVCkJu -------------- ============= Articles Evolvable languages http://bit.ly/1iVCkZP Jeffrey Kegler shows some Perl code that is obviously incorrect, to the eyes of a long time Perl developer, but that seems natural. He then shows how, with the help of a Marpa preprocessor this syntax could be allowed. -------------- Perl Encryption Primer: The Importance of Randomness http://bit.ly/1iVCkZQ Timm Murray from the Wumpus Cave explains how rand() works and why it is not a good tool when security is important. He then goes on to suggest adding extra hardware if randomness is really important, or at least to use Crypt::Random. -------------- How did PHP and Python take over such a huge market-share of Perl? http://bit.ly/1iVCkZT In a nutshell: the 'ease of getting started' and 'batteries included' are two keys in those stories and while there are other issues, without solving these two Perl has no chance in getting in the ring again. -------------- A Faster Perl Runtime in Tiny Steps http://bit.ly/1iVCn8b Apparently now Booking.com is sponsoring Dave Mitchell directly to improve the performance of perl. Steffen Muller explains the changes Dave made in a human readable way. -------------- ============= Testing Precision Testing for Modern Perl http://bit.ly/1iVCnoo Toby Inkster argues that Test::Most is old, has some outdated dependencies and cannot be changed because modules depend on it. Hence he released Test::Modern with a set of dependencies that are good now. I applaud the recommendations, but I think this is not a good path. IMHO it would be better to find a way to update Test::Most. -------------- Test::More - New Maintainer, Also stop version checking! http://bit.ly/1iVCnop Chad 'Exodist' Granum is the new maintainer of Test::More. If you have been experimenting with the 1.5 branch, you might need to update your code! -------------- How soon do CPAN Testers start testing your releases? http://bit.ly/1iVCnou It is only based on data from a single CPAN distribution, but so far it shows that the bulk of the test reports arrive in the first 8 days after the release reaches PAUSE with some reports arriving within the first hour! -------------- Perl::QA Hackathon in Lyon - Day 1 http://bit.ly/1iVClgm -------------- Perl::QA Hackathon in Lyon - Day 2 http://bit.ly/1iVCnox -------------- Perl::QA Hackathon in Lyon - Day 3 http://bit.ly/1iVCnoF -------------- Perl::QA Hackathon in Lyon - Day 4 http://bit.ly/1iVCnEW -------------- ============= Code Perl RegEx /s /m Magic http://bit.ly/1iVCnEZ Sebastian Willing explains the 3 modifiers: /s, /m, and . -------------- ============= Web pjam on rails - build server for perl applications http://bit.ly/1iVCnF6 This looks like some strange animal. A build-server for Perl applications, but running on Ruby on Rails? You might want to check it out and let everyone know what's it about? -------------- ============= CPAN What happens when you upload to CPAN? http://bit.ly/1iVClwO This is the first part of a series in which Neil Bowers tries to explain to himself and to you how the whole CPAN ecosystem works. Do you know what is PAUSE and what BackPAN? -------------- You Can Help MetaCPAN by Helping the QA Hackathon http://bit.ly/1iVClwP In general MetaCPAN does not accept monetary contributions, but being able to participate at the annual QA Hackathon helps Olaf Alders to allocate time to work on MetaCPAN and get others to be involved. So if you'd like to help MetaCPAN with money, the best way is to donate to the QA Hackathon. (See reports about this years QA Hackathon in the Testing section above.) -------------- Sometimes, all it takes is a simple change to make your Perl code run on Windows http://bit.ly/1iVClwR The difference between directory separator characters between Windows and Linux has tripped me many times. Especially in test. Now Sinan Unur shows how we could improve our tests script be be less platform dependent. -------------- ============= Fun perldoc -l for modules without pod http://bit.ly/1iVCnFb Did you know that 'perldoc -lm Module::Name will print the path to a module even if it does not have POD? You can open it in vim by typing 'vim $(perldoc -lm Module::Name)' -------------- ============= Grants Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for Month 7 http://bit.ly/1iVCnVq The report by Tony Cook. -------------- March 2014 Grant Proposals http://bit.ly/1iVCnVt After many months without any grant requests, and after raising the grant limit from 3,000 to 10,000, the last call for grant proposals brought you 4 grant proposals. The Perl Foundation is looking forward to read your comments and thoughts. -------------- ============= Perl 6 Changes for week 10 of 2014 Mar 10 http://bit.ly/1iVCnVu This is the Perl 6 weekly -------------- ============= Training What goes around, comes around http://bit.ly/1iVCnVz Vikings being attacked by an Aussie! More specifically, Damian Conway is visiting Oslo and teaching his Perl Masterclass on Monday, 24 March. -------------- ============= Weekly collections MetaCPAN weekly report - Test::Modern http://bit.ly/1iVClx3 -------------- StackOverflow Perl report http://bit.ly/1iVCnVE -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials Installing a Perl Module from CPAN on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX http://bit.ly/1iVCobW -------------- ============= Events Perl-related events http://bit.ly/1bkDys0 In the following cities: Hannover (DE), Cluj (RO), Swindon (UK), Utrecht (NL), Silver Spring, (MD/USA), Poznan (PL), Prague (CZ), Oslo (NO), Paris (FR), Kiev (UA), Orlando (FL/USA), Sofia (BG), Fl?rli Olten (CH) -------------- ============= You joined the Perl Weekly to get weekly e-mails about the Perl programming language and related topics. Want to see more? See the archives ( http://perlweekly.com/archive/ ) of all the issues. Reading this as a non-subscriber? 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