From gabor at szabgab.com Mon May 26 00:51:19 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 07:51:19 +0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #148 - Conference Season is On Message-ID: <20140526075119.4B1E6D359@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/148.html This week has a lot of conference-related material: videos from the Nederlandse Perl Workshop, report from the Czech Perl workshop, the happy news that the Mojolicious conference is, in all likeliness, going to have a 2015 edition, and some noise about the upcoming YAPC::NA. Hopefully, those echoes will tempt some of you to come and join the fun! ~ `/anick GitTip profile of the week GitTip allows you to give a regular weekly monetary gift to people in order to encourage them to do more of the awesome stuff they have been doing. The gifts can be as low as 1 cent a week. In this section every week you will see a different Perl developer we recommend you support. Oh, and the Perl Weekly itself also has a GitTip account ("https://www.gittip.com/PerlWeekly/"). Chris Williams http://bit.ly/1lMmcFD Chris Williams (aka BINGOS) is another of those elder members of the Perl community. He maintains an impressive number of modules deadling with the testing toolchain, the Windows environment, Dist-Zilla and the asynchronous POE framework. He's also one of the most, if not THE most, active CPAN tester. Neil Bowers points out in an article this month that Chris reported his twentieth million smoke test, an accomplishment that is quite awe-inspiring. -------------- ============= Announcements CPAN Testers on Twitter http://bit.ly/1lMmcFF All the cool kids are doing it. And now, at least one cool tookit is doing it as well. CPAN Testers now has an official Twitter account. -------------- CPANdeps and cpXXXan scheduled downtime http://bit.ly/1lMmf4g Usually, we announce new things. This time, however, David Cantrell warns us that CPANdeps and cpXXXan are going down (but only on the 28th, just long enough for a data center move) -------------- YAPC::NA Wiki - Who Is Staying Where http://bit.ly/1lMmcFJ If you are going to YAPC::NA, consider adding your arrival/departure times to this wiki, to facilitate meet-ups and cab sharings. -------------- Mojoconf 2014 is done; What about 2015? http://bit.ly/1lMmf4h Mojolicious had its own conference in 2014, and Salve J. Nilsen brings us tidings that it'll happen again next year. -------------- ============= Articles Automatic variable highlighting in vim: the easy way http://bit.ly/1lMmf4i Remember the Vim function that Ovid brought to our attention last week? confuseAcat revisits it, and proposes some improvements. -------------- Prototypes and the call checker http://bit.ly/1lMmcVX Peter Martini has a look at this old two-edged sword that is Perl's sub prototypes. -------------- Thank you, Chris Williams (aka BINGOS) http://bit.ly/1lMmf4m The CPAN testing network could be argue to be the awesome marrow that is one of the prime factors that makes the CPAN skeleton so strong. But, of course, this testing network is not run magically by elves. Neil Bowers takes time to tip his hat to Chris Williams, who reported this month his 20th million test report. Yes, that's two-zero-zero-zero-zero-zero-zero and zero. -------------- Mastering Perl 2nd Ed http://bit.ly/1lMmcVY Nikos Vaggalis reviews brian d foy's Master Perl's book. -------------- How to contribute to the exercism.io Perl 5 repo http://bit.ly/1lMmcVZ Exercism.io is an awesome site giving small tasks to learn a vast array of languages, and providing a nice feedback system. David Farrell shows how easily one can contribute to and expand the list of Perl exercises. -------------- Spelunking: why 'while(){ }' is my new favorite perl-ism http://bit.ly/1lMmf4n Here is a feature that you probably didn'y know about. Not content to merely having unearthed this gem, Peter Martini also sleuthes around and finds out exactly since when, and why, this feature has been lurking in the depths of Perl's guts. -------------- Foswiki update May 2014 http://bit.ly/1lMmfkA Foswiki is revving up for its 1.2 release. -------------- GPW2014 & NLPW2014 Survey results http://bit.ly/1lMmfkB Ooooh, statistics! Barbie shares the survey results of both the Deutscher and the Nederlandse Perl workshops. -------------- First Czech Perl Workshop http://bit.ly/1lMmfkE Lichtkind reports on the first Czech Perl workshop. -------------- ============= Discussion YAPC::NA or not? http://bit.ly/1lMmcW2 YAPC::NA is almost upon us (only one more month to go), but the communication channels of the conferences have been rather quiet. To the point that Laufeyjarson muses aloud if he should go. For once, the comments shouldn't be skipped as Chris Prather, one of the organizers, explains the silence, and issues reassurances that the conference is still happening. -------------- ============= Code One package perl pm file http://bit.ly/1lMmfkH While you can put more than one package in one .pm file, Gabor Szabo reminds us that we don't necessary want to do that. -------------- A new BackPAN index (generator) http://bit.ly/1lMmfkI Good news for module repository wranglers everywhere: Neil Bowers and Barbie joined forces, and a new index generator for the BackPAN, or a mirror following its structure. -------------- Licenses and the repository links on CPAN (May 2014) http://bit.ly/1lMmcWa Gabor plays the number game and sees how many of the new distributions advertise their licenses and repository urls. -------------- App::TimeTracker::Command::Trello http://bit.ly/1lMmdcs Like App::TimeTracker? The Trello organizer web service as well? You're in luck: domm just extended the former to work with the latter. -------------- ============= Fun Help me name Veure! http://bit.ly/1lMmdcu Ovid is working on his sci-fi, mmorpg browser-based game, and he needs your help for the hardest task of them all: find the right name for the thing. -------------- ============= Videos TIM-fu*%ing-TOWDI http://bit.ly/1lMmdcA Sawyer X at NLPW::2014::Utretcht, being his awesome, profane, wonderful self. (20 min) -------------- More Awesome Things You've Missed in Perl http://bit.ly/1lMmfkO Paul Fenwick gave this talk in 2012 at the Perth Linux User Group. (80 min) -------------- ============= Weekly collections StackOverflow Perl report http://bit.ly/1lMmdcF -------------- MetaCPAN Weekly Report - Mojolicious & Moose http://bit.ly/1lMmdcH -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials Matching numbers using Perl regex http://bit.ly/1lMmdcJ -------------- ============= Events Perl-related events http://bit.ly/1bkDys0 In the following cities: 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? Join us free of charge. http://perlweekly.com/ (C) Copyright Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/ The articles are copyright the respective authors. You can freely redistribute this message if you keep the whole message intact, including the Copyright notice and this text. 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