[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #142 - Heartbleed and Perl sites

Mon Apr 14 01:11:23 PDT 2014

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Articles

  Perl language's popularity hits all-time low
  http://bit.ly/1kWEG7A

  Infoworld trying to make another populistic assertion based on the biased,
  and incorrect TIOBE index, ran by the well known Perl-hater Paul Jansen.
  Unfortunately, other stats seem to show similar trends. The question: do
  you mind? And if you do: What do you do in order to change the trend?
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  Why Companies Turn Me Down For Contracts
  http://bit.ly/1kWEGnO

  The story telling capabilities of Ovid are clearly good. In this article,
  he explains how searching for the next contract takes away time he could
  spend on writing open source code, and how you could help by getting your
  employer to hire him.
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  Vim::X Update
  http://bit.ly/1kWEGnS

  Yanick Champoux explains how preparing the Perl Weekly was made easier for
  him by adding special keys to Vim that will run a Perl script to fetch
  information from a web site and update the currently edited file.
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  Dada Mail Seven Released! Rejoice!
  http://bit.ly/1kWEGnU

  Dada Mail is a web-based mailing list manager, written in Perl.
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Discussion

  Questioning the Role of API Design in Perl
  http://bit.ly/1kWEGo2

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Testing

  The Hidden Benefit of Data-Driven Programming
  http://bit.ly/1kWEIwc

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  CPAN Testers Summary - March 2014 - Prescence
  http://bit.ly/1kWEGEo

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Code

  Learning the Perl Debugger: Lesson 2
  http://bit.ly/1kWEIMu

  Chisel continues to show the built-in debugger of Perl. This time, it is
  about inspecting variables using p and x.
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  Reading Code - Plack
  http://bit.ly/1kWEIMx

  Eric Johnson started a series of articles explaining the implementation of
  Plack, the implementation of PSGI.
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CPAN

  Why did Extutils::ParseXS fail tests after building perl on Windows 8.1?
  http://bit.ly/1kWEGEt

  Sinan Unur is fighting with the compilation of Perl on his brand new
  Windows machine. The solution is in linking with the 64-bit libraries
  ("http://bit.ly/1kWEIMy").
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Heartbleed
I guess you've already heard about the serius security bug found in
  OpenSSL. This is just a reminder and a few articles related to Perl sites

  Recovering from Heartbleed
  http://bit.ly/1kWEGUQ

  Mike Doherty (doherty) explains the recovery process and includes a link to
  the perl script ("http://bit.ly/1kWEGEz") of Steffen Ullrich for checking
  for the SSL Heartbleed vulnerability.
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  Abandon Ship! It's Time to Ditch OpenSSL
  http://bit.ly/1kWEIMD

  Timm Murray from the Wumpus Cave has a suggestion for you. Use NSS instead
  of OpenSSL.
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  Heartbleed updates for rt.perl.org and rt.cpan.org
  http://bit.ly/1kWEGUX

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  Security: Heartbleed Vulnerability
  http://bit.ly/1kWEGV0

  Stratopan was updated.
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Fun

  Thinking out Loud: Managing Video and Nav Display Together in UAV::Pilot
  http://bit.ly/1kWEJ2Z

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Grants

  Maintaining the Perl 5 Core: Report for Month 6 (March 2014)
  http://bit.ly/1kWEJ33

  The report of Dave Mitchell.
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Tutorials

  For each
  http://bit.ly/1kWEGV4

  Learn Perl with Emma Howson.
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Videos

  Perl Encryption Primer
  http://bit.ly/1kWEGV8

  One hour presentation given by Timm Murray at the monthly meetings of the
  MadMongers in Madison, WI.
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Perl 6

  Speshial things
  http://bit.ly/1kWEHbp

  The Perl 6 weekly reports a bunch of performance improvements in Rakudo.
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  Optimization, concurrency, and Moar
  http://bit.ly/1kWEHbr

  Jonathan Worthington provides more details on the recent developments in
  Rakudo.
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Weekly collections

  MetaCPAN weekly report - Games::2048
  http://bit.ly/1kWEHbv

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  StackOverflow Perl report
  http://bit.ly/1kWEJ37

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Perl Maven Tutorials

  Can't locate inc/Module/Install.pm
  http://bit.ly/1kWEJ3b

  A special case of missing module error when you might try to install a
  module straight from its version control system.
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  Sorting mixed strings
  http://bit.ly/1kWEHbD

  How would you sort the following strings: foo_11, bar_2_abc, moo_3 based on
  the numbers in it?
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  How to check if a child process is still running in Perl?
  http://bit.ly/1kWEHbE

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  Reverse an array, a string or a number
  http://bit.ly/1kWEHrT

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Events

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