[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #148 - Conference Season is On

Mon May 26 00:51:19 PDT 2014

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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 

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  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.
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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.
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  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)
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  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.
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  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.
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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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  Mastering Perl 2nd Ed
  http://bit.ly/1lMmcVY

  Nikos Vaggalis reviews brian d foy's Master Perl's book.
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  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.
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  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.
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  Foswiki update May 2014
  http://bit.ly/1lMmfkA

  Foswiki is revving up for its 1.2 release.
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  GPW2014 & NLPW2014 Survey results
  http://bit.ly/1lMmfkB

  Ooooh, statistics! Barbie shares the survey results of both the Deutscher
  and the Nederlandse Perl workshops.
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  First Czech Perl Workshop
  http://bit.ly/1lMmfkE

  Lichtkind reports on the first Czech Perl workshop.
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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.
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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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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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.
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Videos

  TIM-fu*%ing-TOWDI 
  http://bit.ly/1lMmdcA

  Sawyer X at NLPW::2014::Utretcht, being his awesome, profane, wonderful
  self. (20 min)
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  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)
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Weekly collections

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

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  MetaCPAN Weekly Report - Mojolicious & Moose
  http://bit.ly/1lMmdcH

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Perl Maven Tutorials

  Matching numbers using Perl regex
  http://bit.ly/1lMmdcJ

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Events

  Perl-related events
  http://bit.ly/1bkDys0

  In the following cities: Paris (FR), Kiev (UA), Orlando (FL/USA), Sofia
  (BG), Flörli Olten (CH)
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