[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #165 - Perl 5.20.1 released
Gabor Szabo
gabor at szabgab.com
Mon Sep 22 00:59:09 PDT 2014
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Hi,
for some of you this might be old news, but the 5.20 series of perl got its
first bug-fix release. It is available in source code format and for
Windows users the Strawberry Perl release is recommended.
Enjoy your week with your new version of Perl! ~szabgab
Announcements
Perl 5.20.1 is now available!
http://bit.ly/1qZ9oU9
As usual, without any announcement outside of the Perl 5 Porters mailing
list, the newest stable version of Perl has been released.
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Strawberry Perl for Windows 5.20.1.1 released
http://bit.ly/1qZ9oUa
Soon after the official release by the Perl 5 Porters, kmx has released
Strawberry Perl for Windows which core Perl + a bunch of interesting
modules.
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Perl Maven Pro
The Perl Maven Pro ("http://perlmaven.com/pro") subscribers receive two new
articles and screencasts every week. The last week these were the two
screencasts:
TODO - testing a bug or a future feature
http://bit.ly/1qZ9pYe
Have you ever implemented a test for a bug just to find out the bug won't
be fixed in the current release? What do you do with the failing test
then?
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Test diagnostic messages using diag, note, and explain
http://bit.ly/1uvMO3o
Explaining diag(), note() and explain() that come with Test::More
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Articles
Revitalizing the Perl Power Tools
http://bit.ly/1uvMLo7
The Perl Power Tools that is also known as the Unix Reconstruction Project
has not been maintained for quite some time. Now brian d foy takes it
into his hands.
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Easily check your IP address with Perl
http://bit.ly/1uvMOjJ
David Farrell uses HTTP::Tiny and WWW::curlmyip to fetch the IP address as
seen by the curlmyip.com site and then uses Geo::IP to map it to a city.
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Testing
Understanding Behavior Driven Development
http://bit.ly/1qZ9pYk
Ovid, who knows quite a bit about testing and Agile software development
has just started to like BDD and Cucumber. He shows what is a good and a
bad 'story' and how the good 'story' can be easily expressed in
Test::Cukes, the Perl implementation of Cucumber.
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Code
Releasing NAP::Policy to the world
http://bit.ly/1qZ9oUn
The various bits and pieces Net-A-Porter is using to standardize their Perl
code. A pragma module, a set of Perl::Critic policies etc.
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Template Toolkit's DEFAULT directive does not short-circuit
http://bit.ly/1qZ9paC
A pitfall in how Template::Toolkit works.
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Object::Util
http://bit.ly/1qZ9qeG
A set of handy methods for working with classes and objects in Perl created
by Toby Inkster. These are weird methods, all starting with a $-sign such
as $class->$_new(%args) and $object->$_clone().
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Web
New Perl Catalyst Development Branch "Holland" Now Open
http://bit.ly/1qZ9paG
For the new release John Napiorkowski has moved the issues from Questhub to
Github. You can also get an explanation why is this release called after
a chicken?
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CPAN
Encourage user participation via a single-line patch to your dist metadata
http://bit.ly/1qZ9paH
Are you a module authors? MetaCPAN can now drive visitors directly to the
IRC channel where you provide support. Ribasushi explains what do you
need to add to your META files in order to enable this feature.
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Server move - phase 1
http://bit.ly/1qZ9paI
Some of the MetaCPAN servers have moved.
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"I Do Not Want To Use Any Modules"
http://bit.ly/1qZ9paM
Every day Dave Cross encounters someone who want to solve some problem
without installing any module from CPAN. Here he tries to explain why is
that a broken idea. IMHO the problem is that many people 'in the Perl
community' (see elsewhere) are busy showing why the others are wrong,
instead of trying to understand the real reasons behind not wanting to
deal with third-party modules. See also the Reddit discussion
("http://bit.ly/1qZ9paJ").
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Fun
What is "the Perl community"?
http://bit.ly/1qZ9qvd
Neil Bowers tries to answer the above question, with drawings of layered
onions and radiating suns, but I think there is another question: Why
does it matter?
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Act Hackathon
patch -p2
http://bit.ly/1qZ9paR
The next edition of the French Perl Hackathon will be held in Lyon, from
November 27 to November 30, 2014. The focus of this Hackathon is Act, the
web application running most of the YAPCs and Perl Workshops.
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Support the "Fund for Act development"
http://bit.ly/1qZ9qvg
Some of the people who would like to attend the Act Hackathon in Lyon will
need help in financing their trip. This is your chance to help.
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Other
Code::Maven
http://bit.ly/1qZ9qvh
This is a new project by yours truly (szabgab), to statically analyze
source code, to display in interesting ways, to collect 'common
practices', to build an index of code expressions etc. It is at a very
early stage, but if you are interested, you can follow the blog.
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Weekly collections
(cli) stackoverflow perl report
http://bit.ly/1qZ9s6j
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(cxxvi) metacpan weekly report - Object::Util
http://bit.ly/1qZ9s6k
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Perl Maven Tutorials
Using Travis-CI and installing Geo::IP on Linux and OSX Travis-CI Geo::IP
http://bit.ly/1qZ9s6n
Installing Geo::IP always involved several failed attempts for me, but that
should not be the case any more. This article describes the steps to
install Geo::IP. It also provides the rules you can add to your
.travis.yml if your GitHub repository depends on Geo::IP.
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Events
Perl-related events
http://bit.ly/1bkDys0
In the following cities: Hancock (NY/USA), Itapema (SC/Brasil), Salzburg
(Austria), Barcelona (Spain), London (UK)
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First Perl::Dancer conference soon
http://bit.ly/1qZ9s6q
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