From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Aug 17 23:05:14 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 06:05:14 -0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #160 - Happy Belated CPAN Day! Message-ID: <20140818060438.7CBA9C3EA@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/160.html On August 15th CPAN Day, thanks to the endless promotion of Neil Bowers and others, the anniversary of the birth of CPAN was celebrated. The libations were true to form: over 775 releases were made by 107 authors. Flash in the pan? Beginning of a tradition? We'll have to wait until next year to find out. In the meantime, we can sit back, relax, and enjoy this tsunami of new releases. ~ `/anick 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. -------------- ============= Headlines James Aitken (LoonyPandora) passed away http://bit.ly/VykxgG It is with great sadness that we learned of the untimely death of Dancer contributor and Perl community member James Aitken. For anybody wishing to help with the funeral costs, the link leads to a funding campaign. -------------- ============= Announcements Specify the min perl version for your distribution http://bit.ly/Vykz8l Neil Bowers points out the advantages of specifying the supported perl versions of your distributions. -------------- perlprogramming.org http://bit.ly/Vykz8m Gabor Szabo is the owner of the 'perlprogramming.org' domain, but doesn't really have a use for it. So he's asking if anybody is interested in taking over. -------------- Type::Tiny 1.000000 Released http://bit.ly/Vykz8n Type::Tiny is one of those keystone minimal implementation-distribution that found their way in almost everybody's toolbox. Toby Inkster announces proudly that it has now reached its v1.0 milestone. -------------- PPI 1.218 has been released - bug fixes, speed optimizations, tests, doc improvements http://bit.ly/VykzoA Mithaldu let us know that a new version of PPI is out. It's faster, with more documentation, tests, and now live on GitHub! -------------- Just uploaded App::multiwhich in observance of CPAN day http://bit.ly/Vykxx3 Sinan Unur releases App::multiwhich, a variation of the venerable 'which' command. -------------- Announcing CPAN.io http://bit.ly/VykzoD BooK announces the arrival of a new CPAN site. It's still very new and very bare, but it might pay to come back and have a look at it in the upcoming weeks. -------------- ============= Articles Quickly Check for Database Design Flaws http://bit.ly/Vykxx6 Database schemas are hard to get right. Ovid tries to help us along the way, and shares a quick checks that is likely to make some of its flaws come out of the woodwork. -------------- Try Travis CI with your CPAN distributions http://bit.ly/Vykxx9 CPANTesters is the bee's knee, but recently we have seen the rise of Travis CI, a general-purpose testing service. Neil Bowers shows us here how to use it for Perl distributions. -------------- A brief history of CPAN http://bit.ly/Vykxxa Neil Bowers regales us with a break-neck recap of the last 20 years of CPAN. -------------- ============= Discussion Creating an MMORPG in Perl http://bit.ly/VykzoI Ovid discusses at a high-level the challenges and intricacies that goes in writing a MMORPG. -------------- Put your CPAN distributions on github http://bit.ly/Vykxxb Neil Bowers makes the case for putting your CPAN distribution on GitHub. -------------- Our Axis2 to Mojolicious Modernization http://bit.ly/Vykxxc Richard Elberger discusses how he ported an application from Axis2 to Mojolicious. -------------- The new Test::Builder - "Why?" http://bit.ly/Vykxxd Lots of changes are coming to Test::Builder. Chad Granum explains their motivation here. -------------- CPAN Day winner? http://bit.ly/Vykxxg Now that the dust is settling on CPAN day, peoples are looking at the scoreboard of releases. Samuel Kaufman draws our attention on Ingy dot Net, who really went ALL out. -------------- ============= Code Net::Gnats and GNU Gnats and Gnatsweb http://bit.ly/VykxNv Richard Elberger is the new maintainer of Net::Gnats, an interface to the GNU Gnats bug tracking system. -------------- Finding Stuff In Your Local CPAN Mirror http://bit.ly/VykxNw Having it is only half the battle: one has to also be able to find it. Mike Greb shares his tricks to find what he's looking for in a local CPAN mirror. -------------- Splitting a Catalyst App and recombining it with Plack::Builder http://bit.ly/VykxNx So your little Catalyst application is not so little anymore, and it has reached a size where it becomes unwieldy and should be fragmented in smaller, separate parts. Dave Wood has been there, and tells us how he proceeded. -------------- ============= Slides Uploading Your First Module to CPAN http://slidesha.re/VykxNy The slides of brian d foy's talk at the August meeting of Chicago.pm. -------------- ============= Weekly collections StackOverflow Perl report http://bit.ly/VykzoP -------------- MetaCPAN Weekly Report - Time::Moment http://bit.ly/VykzoR -------------- ============= 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? See the archives ( http://perlweekly.com/archive/ ) of all the issues. Reading this as a non-subscriber? 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