From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Jul 13 22:37:49 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 05:37:49 +0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #155 - There Be Cobwebs In Those Coffers Message-ID: <20140714053749.1BBB4C014@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/155.html This week, we have echos of the next conferences coming out way (YAPC::EU, the Perl Swiss Workshop, the next London.pm meetings). We also have some updates of the financial state of some of Perl's foundations and, alas without surprises, it seems we are running on a very lean budget -- perhaps a reminder to us all to poke our $workplaces and see if they can't help in some way to keep the ecosystem alive and well-fed. ~ `/anick Sponsors We are Hiring a Senior Perl Software Developer - Grant Street Group http://bit.ly/1rM04mw We are a fast growing software company using open source software/modern Perl practices to build innovative e-payment, auction, and tax collection web applications. We have been hiring great Developers for many years, and we want to further expand our distributed team of talented and friendly Developers. Most of our experienced Developers telecommute; on-site positions are also available. -------------- ============= Announcements Swiss Perl Workshop in Two Months http://bit.ly/1q8JSvO Planning to attend the Swiss Perl Workshop? Now might be a good time to register, as the event is drawing close... -------------- Where will YAPC::Europe 2015 take place? http://bit.ly/1q8JSvV Curious to know what are the cities in the race to host next year's YAPC::EU? Well, don't waste any time, click the link already! -------------- P5CMF Needs some love http://bit.ly/1q8JSvY Dan Wright warns us that the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund is running low on gas. Companies that rely on Perl to do the job, now would be a good time to chip in... -------------- Grants Committee Budget http://bit.ly/1q8JQEf Makoto Nozaki gives us the low-down on the Perl Foundation Grants Committee; how much money they currently have, how the rest of the year looks like. -------------- Perl Training and donation to TPF http://bit.ly/1q8JQEj Need Perl training, and willing to help TPF at the same time? Gabor Szabo has a proposition for you. -------------- London Perl Mongers Meeting http://bit.ly/1q8JSvZ Dave Cross lets us know what's coming up at the London.pm meetings. (sneak peak: lots of good stuff, that's what is coming) -------------- ============= Articles Seven years of blogging http://bit.ly/1q8JQEl the site's statistics, he draws a list of his best hits, as well as his own favorite entries. -------------- I went to YAPC::NA in Orlando! http://bit.ly/1q8JSw6 Ricardo Signes gives us the second part of his YAPC::NA debriefing. -------------- See you at YAPC::EU! http://bit.ly/1q8JQEp YAPC::NA is over, long live YAPC::EU. Alex Balhatchet and a contingent of Nestoria's devs are preparing themselves for the trip to Sofia, Bulgaria. -------------- Community: helping each other http://bit.ly/1q8JSMk Neil Bowers testify of the synergy between CPAN authors, and how we are more as a group than the sum of our parts. -------------- Some statistics from Debian package tags http://bit.ly/1q8JQEu Steven Haryanto gathers some interesting stats on Debian packages and the languages in which they are based. -------------- Why Learn Perl? Interview 4 - Emma Howson, Graduate and Emerging Perl Dancer http://bit.ly/1q8JQEv Andrew Solomon interviews Emma Howson, a young, nascent Perl developer (and author of the PerlAdventures blog which appears here from time to time). -------------- The perversity of traditional Perl's dereferencing syntax http://bit.ly/1q8JSMo Perl's new postderef syntax looks funny, but there is a reason for it. Aristotle explains the devil that lies in the details of the deadly dereferencing drama. -------------- ============= Discussion Amazon & Ebay http://bit.ly/1q8JSMp Using Interchange for your e-commerce? You might want to keep an eye on Stefan Hornburg, as he's starting a project that will allow Interchange to interface with Amazon and Ebay. -------------- Metabase down? http://bit.ly/1q8JQUT gvl has problems reaching metabase.cpantesters.org. From the comments, it seems that the problem isn't with the server, but could be born out of an IO::Socket::IP bug. -------------- ============= Testing Rex meet Rspec http://bit.ly/1q8JQUU chenryn has a stab at porting rspec, a type of testing framework to ensure a host's configuration conforms to what is expected, to Perl. -------------- Finding unused variables in your Template stash http://bit.ly/1q8JSMu Ovid offers us the first draft of a cruft-busting tool that aims to detect variables that are pushed to the templates but never used. -------------- ============= Code Tell me more, tell me more http://bit.ly/1q8JQUY Mark Fowler announces a new version of Test::DatabaseRow. With the next version comes an easier way to tell the tests to open wide the gates of verbosity. -------------- Benchmarking several ASCII-table-generator modules http://bit.ly/1q8JQUZ Steven Haryanto compares modules producing text-based tables. And yes, some metrics are presented in text-based tables themselves. Yo dawg. -------------- A Ringleader Proxy for Sporadically-Used Web Applications http://bit.ly/1q8JSMz Yanick plays around with a proxying service to manage his herd of sporadically-used toy web applications. -------------- HTML pro-parsing tips http://bit.ly/1q8JRbe "Parse HTML? Easy, let me write a regex!" NO! Stop right there, and go read David Farell's tricks and recommendations to sanely parse HTML instead. Trust me, you'll thank me later. -------------- Perl virtual tables for DBD::SQLite : ready to test http://bit.ly/1q8JRbf Laurent Dami continues on his quest for Perl-based virtual table support for SQLite. This time around, he has a working prototype to share with us. -------------- Because Sometimes Lightspeed is Too Slow http://bit.ly/1q8JT2S Tiny::Type is still too sluggish for you? You're mad. And so is Toby Inkster, who wrote a XS version of the module that gives a 300% boost to an already lean speed demon. -------------- Non-blocking Mojolicious apps are even easier now! http://bit.ly/1q8JT2W Joel Berger raves about the new features of Mojolicious, and of the doors they open (or, at least, make much easier to pass through). -------------- ============= Fun Fun with image transformations in Perl http://bit.ly/1q8JT2Z Sinan Unur is having fun swapping pixels between classic paintings using GD::Image. -------------- ============= Weekly collections StackOverflow Perl report http://bit.ly/1q8JRbi -------------- MetaCPAN Weekly Report - Task::Kensho & perl http://bit.ly/1q8JRbm -------------- ============= Videos First Time CPAN Contributor http://bit.ly/1q8JRbo 24 min talk by Adam Dutko at YAPC::NA 2014 -------------- What's new in Mojolicious 5.0 http://bit.ly/1q8JRbr 19 min talk by Sebastian Riedel the author of Mojolicious. (pls note: Sound starts at 2:15) -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials Fetching data from YouTube using Perl http://bit.ly/1q8JRbu 14 min screencast and article -------------- ============= Events Perl-related events http://bit.ly/1bkDys0 In the following cities: Sofia (Bulgaria), Tokyo (Japan), Fl?rli Olten (Switzerland), Hancock (NY/USA), Itapema (SC/Brasil), Salzburg (Austria), Barcelona (Spain) -------------- ============= 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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