From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Aug 11 00:44:33 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 07:44:33 -0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #159 - The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2014 Tilt Campaign Message-ID: <20140811074245.D8502C429@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/159.html Hi, Greetings from Germany where I am currently teaching a 'Test automation using Perl' course. Relax and enjoy the summer! Or winter. If you happen to be on the other side of the globe. Sponsors ZipRecruiter is hiring modern Perl Programmers (Los Angeles or remote in US) http://bit.ly/1nAxFZj At ZipRecruiter, our goal is to build the best online services for finding and filling jobs. We've grown from 4 to over 100 employees in less than 4 years with zero funding. We care about code quality and quality of life. To learn more about our business and values, please follow the link above. -------------- We are Hiring a Senior Perl Software Developer - Grant Street Group http://bit.ly/1kWEG7t We are a growing software company using open source software/modern Perl practices to build innovative e-payment, auction, and tax collection web applications. We are looking for talented, motivated professionals committed to flawless work and customer service. -------------- ============= GitTip profile of the week I stopped including GitTip links as they seemed to have only minimal impact, but if you think you'd want to tip the editors of the newsletter you can do it here ("https://www.gittip.com/PerlWeekly/"). ============= Tilt and Kickstart The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2014 Tilt Campaign http://bit.ly/1ylRdXx Would you like to go to the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop? The organizers ask for your commitment before they start to organize. Go place your tilt for $125. -------------- Kickstarting Mastering Perl Course at the Swiss Perl Workshop http://bit.ly/1ylRcCY brian d foy offers various options from getting an e-book version of the book 'Mastering Perl' through participating in his training class in Z?rich till having him consult for your for a full day. -------------- ============= Articles How should conference speakers be compensated? http://bit.ly/1ylRcD3 brian d foy explains how the Master Classes he started to run at YAPC::Chicago in 2006 helped financing some of the speakers. IMHO, as I also wrote already ("http://bit.ly/1cfoBom") this is a win-win and such training classes can even help sponsoring other parts of the conference. -------------- ============= Discussion Mojolicious - Perl real-time web framework http://bit.ly/1ylRedS A long thread of discussion on HackerNews that of course diverges to the discussion of OOP in Perl and sigils and whatnot. -------------- Perl as a career option http://bit.ly/1ylRcD4 Andrew Solomon has been interviewed by Linux Career covering quite a few topic from 'Modern Perl' via web development to 'how to get started with Perl'. -------------- ============= Testing Rescue legacy code with modulinos http://bit.ly/1ylRedT Modulino is a Perl module that can be also used as a script. brian d foy explains how this feature can be used to convert scripts into modules and make it easier to start testing them. -------------- Check your test coverage with Devel::Cover http://bit.ly/1ylRedW -------------- ============= Code Parse Excel with ease using Perl http://bit.ly/1ylRedY David Farrell shows how to read Excel files using Spreadsheet::Read. -------------- ============= Web Catalyst vs Dancer vs Mojolicious on Stack Overflow http://bit.ly/1ylRcTk I checked the number of posts on Stack Overflow tagged with each one of those: Catalyst: 380, Mojolicious: 213, Dancer: 133. Does this mean anything? -------------- Catalyst 5.90070 has Landed! http://bit.ly/1ylRedZ -------------- ============= CPAN Don't be afraid to rename your module / dist http://bit.ly/1ylRcTm Neil Bowers explains module name choices and how to rename a module. -------------- Curating CPAN sometimes means really deleting stuff http://bit.ly/1ylRcTn Philippe Bruhat (BooK) shows 3 cases when he decide a module should be totally removed from CPAN and uses his examples to encourage others too to remove obsolete modules. -------------- Fix a bug on CPAN Day http://bit.ly/1ylRee5 It is Neil Bowers again (I really hope he will create a post linking to all of his CPAN-day related posts) showing how the number of bugs on RT are steadily growing (but not even looking at bugs reported elsewhere). More importantly he created a list of the to 20 distributions in terms of open RT tickets. There are some very important modules in that list! Go ahead, you can fix a bug or at least write a test case. -------------- Don't declare a dependency on Crypt::SSLeay (or IO::Socket::SSL either) http://bit.ly/1ylRee6 Instead of that, if your code uses https then declare a dependency on LWP::Protocol::https. -------------- Fix your CPAN Testers failures on CPAN Day http://bit.ly/1ylRcTp Another thing you can do to help CPAN and the Perl ecosystem. -------------- Taking CPAN With You http://bit.ly/1ylRcTq Michael Greb shows how to use CPAN::Mini to create a local copy of CPAN, and how to use it with cpanm, cpanp, or with good old cpan. -------------- ============= Grants Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for Month 11 http://bit.ly/1ylRcTr The monthly report from Tony Cook. (The unofficial list of grants and reports is here ("http://bit.ly/Vz84u2").) -------------- Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for Month 12 http://bit.ly/1ylRcTs -------------- GSoC Week 11: Improving Documentation for MetaCPAN. http://bit.ly/1ylReus Talina Shrotriya keeps herself busy with MetaCPAN activity heading towards the "Web of Trust" that will hopefully vastly improve the search results on MetaCPAN. -------------- Maintaining the Perl 5 Core: Report for Month 10 (July 2014) http://bit.ly/1ylReut -------------- ============= Core Perl perlcc next steps http://bit.ly/1ylRcTy Compiling Perl code to executable? Some crazy optimizations done by Reini Urban at cPanel. -------------- ============= Perl 6 2014.31 (for real this time) http://bit.ly/1ylReuw The Perl 6 weekly. -------------- ============= Weekly collections (cxlv) stackoverflow perl report http://bit.ly/1ylReuz -------------- (cxx) metacpan weekly report - Time::Moment http://bit.ly/1ylRd9Q -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials Don't interpolate in printf (Missing argument in sprintf at ...) http://bit.ly/1ylReuA A screencast (and article) on how I made a stupid mistake and how you could avoid it. -------------- ============= 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), London (UK) -------------- ============= You joined the Perl Weekly to get weekly e-mails about the Perl programming language and related topics. Want to see more? 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