[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #139 - QA Hackathon is over - lots of reports

Mon Mar 24 03:06:19 PDT 2014

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QA Hackathon

  The Perl QA Hackathon 2014 in Lyon is over
  http://bit.ly/1m1NSbD

  This is the summary of the summaries with quotes from all the other posts
  and links to them. I am impressed both by what they accomplished at the
  QA Hackathon and maybe even more, by the amount of reporting they
  provided.
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  My 2014 QA Hackathon (by Barbie)
  http://bit.ly/1m1NSrU

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  Perl::QA Hackathon in Lyon - Summary (by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe)
  http://bit.ly/1m1NREq

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  QA Hackathon 2014 (by Neil Bowers)
  http://bit.ly/1m1NSrV

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  The 2014 Perl QA Hackathon in Lyon: the work (by Ricardo Signes)
  http://bit.ly/1m1NSrX

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  MetaCPAN 2014 QA Hackathon Retrospective (by Olaf Alders)
  http://bit.ly/1m1NREt

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  Perl QA Hackathon 2014 Report (by David Golden)
  http://bit.ly/1m1NREu

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  QA Hackathon 2014 (by Paul Johnson)
  http://bit.ly/1m1NSs5

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  QA Hackathon 2014 and CPANTS (by Kenichi Ishigaki)
  http://bit.ly/1m1NREx

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  Damage control is not quality assurance (by Philippe Bruhat aka. BooK)
  http://bit.ly/1m1NSs2

  The side of the organizers.
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Code

  File::Sip a perl module to read huge text files with limited memory
  http://bit.ly/1m1NREy

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Web

  Added experimental cookie_jar support in Furl
  http://bit.ly/1m1NSIo

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  Foswiki 1.1.9 Virtual Machine now available
  http://bit.ly/1m1NRED

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Security

  Perl Encryption Primer: One Time Pads Are Too Awesome To Use
  http://bit.ly/1m1NRUT

  Timm Murray, a resident of the Wumpus Cave, explains what is a One Time Pad
  (OTP), how it is the perfect encryption system, and why we should never
  use it.
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  Perl Encryption Primer: Block Ciphers
  http://bit.ly/1m1NRUV

  Timm Murray writes about DES, the old standard for encryption, 3DES and
  Rijndael, also known as Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). The new
  standard that cannot be brute-forced.
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  Linux Takeover Artists Fling 35M Spam Messages Daily
  http://ubm.io/1m1NRUY

  So Perl is used in the industry...   (shared by Tony D)
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Grants

  Maintaining the Perl 5 Core: Report for Month 5 (Feb 2014)
  http://bit.ly/1m1NRV4

  The grant report of Dave Mitchell.
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  TPF Grant Progress Report: March 2014
  http://bit.ly/1m1NRV7

  This is the Pinto grant of Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer.
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  TPF is now participating on Amazon Smile
  http://bit.ly/1m1NSbC

  If you enroll your Amazon account to Amazon Smile and select The Perl
  Foundation as the charitable organization, they will receive a donation
  of 0.5% of all qualifying purchases you make at smile.amazon.com. - I
  don't know what kind of items are qualifying but remember, the official
  name of TPF is "Yet Another Society". That's what you need to select if
  you'd like to get the donations to TPF.
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Parrot

  Parrot 6.2.0 "Imperial Amazon" Released!
  http://bit.ly/1m1NSIB

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Perl 6

  Week 11 of 2014
  http://bit.ly/1m1NRV8

  The Perl 6 weekly blog
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  Perl 6 on steroids: Through The Window
  http://bit.ly/1m1NUQw

  Tadeusz Sosnierz (tadzik) is writing about game development using Perl 6.
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  Parsing indented text
  http://bit.ly/1m1NUQz

  Carl Mäsak shows how to parse Python using Perl 6.
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Other

  PerlTricks.com is a year old
  http://bit.ly/1m1NUQB

  David Farrell shares some stats of his (their?) website. 17,000 visitors in
  February 2014, and pages per visit is 1.5. He wants to grow the visitor
  count to 70,000 in the next year.
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  Which modules do you use?
  http://bit.ly/1m1NSIG

  As explained in the article, I'd like to build a list of CPAN modules which
  people and companies use in their applications. I am interested both in
  open source and closed source applications. Both in 'commonly use'
  modules and the ones that only you might be using.
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  Vim::X - VimL is Eldritch, Let's Write Perl!
  http://bit.ly/1m1NSYV

  Yanick Champoux is interfacing Vim with Perl.
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Training

  Le sexe et la violence en Suisse
  http://bit.ly/1m1NUQC

  Google tells me it is about Sex and violence in Switzerland. And it is
  categorized as a training event.
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  Another event in Oslo
  http://bit.ly/1m1NSYW

  by Damian Conway
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Weekly collections

  MetaCPAN weekly report - Sort::ByExample
  http://bit.ly/1m1NSYX

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  StackOverflow Perl report
  http://bit.ly/1m1NSZ1

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Perl Maven Tutorials

  Lvalue substr - replace part of a string
  http://bit.ly/1m1NSZ3

  Using substr as an Lvalue isn't really a recommended practice, but
  sometimes people use it, so it might be interesting to see an example.
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  Install Perl modules without root rights on Linux Ubuntu 13.10 x64
  http://bit.ly/1m1NSZ7

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  EduMaven - course slides in Perl, Python, PHP, Dart and more
  http://bit.ly/1m1NUQL

  The site has almost 400 pages already, Perl has 60. It is still at the
  beginning, but you can probably already learn quite a few new things
  there.
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Events

  Mojoconf 2014 – Call for Papers / Call for speakers – extended deadline: April 5th
  http://bit.ly/1m1NUQM

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  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), Flörli Olten (CH)
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