From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Aug 24 23:31:32 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 06:31:32 -0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #161 - Yet Another YAPC Properly Concluded Message-ID: <20140825063106.F250EC011@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/161.html As we speak, the 2014 edition of YAPC::EU came and went. Already we have some blog entries reporting on the event, as well as the announcement that Granada, Spain will be where the 2015 edition will be held. Also this week, Toby Inkster goes all out in a series of blog entries revealing all the awesome secrets of Type::Tiny. Enjoy! ~ `/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. -------------- ============= Announcements Dancer2 0.150000 has been released http://bit.ly/1t5BNbY Dancer2 has a new release out, codenamed "LoonyPandora" in honor of contributor and friend James Aitken who recently passed away. This release comes with some pretty substantial changes dealing with the main context object and the way Dancer and PSGI apps relate to each other. -------------- New Grant Manager http://bit.ly/1t5BOwq Makoto Nozaki announces that Mark Jensen has joined the Perl Foundation Grants Committee has a grant manager. -------------- Swiss Perl Workshop -2 Weeks http://bit.ly/1t5BOwt Sad that YAPC::EU is over? Don't be! The Swiss Perl Workshop is happening in two weeks. -------------- ============= Articles Who has the best package manager? Part one http://bit.ly/1t5BOwu We all know: the language is only half of the story. The other half is the vast ecosystem of add-ons, modules, plugins or packages. David Farrell explores how the package managers of Perl, PHP, Python, Node.js and Ruby fare against each other. -------------- ============= Discussion The last few GSoC commits (Pencils down) http://bit.ly/1t5BNc1 The Google Summer of Code is winding down. Talina Shrotriya gives us her last thoughts as she enters the last week of the program. -------------- OPW Ending for Beginning http://bit.ly/1t5BOwA The 2014 edition of the Outreach Program for Women is now over. Pattawan gives us here her last report for it, as well as what the near future has in stock for her. -------------- YAPC::Europe Day 1 http://bit.ly/1t5BOwB L??on Brocard reports on the first day of YAPC::EU. -------------- YAPC::Europe 2014, day 1 http://bit.ly/1t5BOwD Perl blogger Tobez reports from the YAPC::EU front-line. -------------- YAPC::Europe 2014, day 2 http://bit.ly/1t5BNsn Tobez reports on day 2 of YAPC::EU. -------------- YAPC::Europe Day 2 http://bit.ly/1t5BNso Leon Brocard narrates his second YAPC::EU day. -------------- Please don't use ::Tiny unless it meets the ::Tiny criteria, thanks! http://bit.ly/1t5BOMU Dan Muey would like not to see the ::Tiny namespace get out of hand. -------------- ============= Testing CPAN Testers: CPAN Testers Summary - July 2014 - Imaginos http://bit.ly/1t5BOMX Barbie summarizes what happened in the world of Perl testing in July. -------------- Mock Testing Net::Gnats http://bit.ly/1t5BOMY Offline testing of modules interfacing with external services is always tricky. Richard Elberger shares his adventures in mocking the external components of Net::Gnats. -------------- Testing Dancer Applications http://bit.ly/1t5BOMZ Yanick compares a few of the modules available to test Dancer/Dancer2 applications. -------------- ============= Code Language design: Exploiting ambiguity http://bit.ly/1t5BON2 Jeffrey Kegler talks about Marpa, and how it can deals with ambiguous grammar definitions. -------------- File::Which comes with its own 'multiwhich' http://bit.ly/1t5BNss Sinan Unur released App::multiswitch last week-end, as part of CPAN Day. Later on, he realized he might have reinvented a wheel already included in File::Which's trunk. Oops. -------------- Type::Tiny Tricks #2: Types Are Objects http://bit.ly/1t5BONb Toby Inkster points out that Type::Tiny types are objects by themselves, and can be used outside of attribute definitions for, e.g., validate any value you might care for. -------------- Type::Tiny Tricks #3: One-off Coercions http://bit.ly/1t5BP3t So you have a generic type, and one attribute is kinda of that type, but also could be coerced from a value in a special, snowflaky unique way? Toby Inkster shows you how Type::Tiny deals with those one-off special cases. -------------- Let's talk about Time::Moment and round-trip of strings http://bit.ly/1t5BNsy Christian Hansen takes a moment (haw, haw, ... okay, I'm sorry) to discuss the round-trip parsing speed of this new time module. And it's pretty darn fast. -------------- Perfect Hashes and faster than memcmp http://bit.ly/1t5BNsA A simple hash won't do? Don't worry: Reini Urban has *perfect* hashes for you. -------------- Type::Tiny Tricks #4: Inlined Type Constraints http://bit.ly/1t5BNIQ Toby Inkster -------------- Type::Tiny Tricks #5: Wrapping Moose/Mouse Type Constraints http://bit.ly/1t5BNIT Toby Inkster demonstrates how to have a peek on the validation of any defined type is done. -------------- Type::Tiny Tricks #6: Tricks with Tuples http://bit.ly/1t5BNIU For types that are arrays of specific sizes, Type::Tiny has the concept of 'Tuples'. Toby Inkster shows how to use them. -------------- Type::Tiny Tricks #7: Tricks with Dicts http://bit.ly/1t5BNIV Type::Tiny, this small fountain of marvels, refines the definition of hash into two types: maps and dictionaries. Toby Inkster shows here when and how they apply. -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials How to break lines with max width? (wrap) http://bit.ly/1t5BNIY Splitting a string into pieces with a max length but without breaking up words. Manually and using Text::Wrap. (article + screencast) -------------- ============= Weekly collections StackOverflow Perl report http://bit.ly/1t5BP3G -------------- MetaCPAN Weekly Report - Type::Tiny http://bit.ly/1t5BNIZ -------------- ============= Events Perl-related events http://bit.ly/1bkDys0 In the following cities: 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? 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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