[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #166 - A Mild Case of Shellshock

Sun Sep 28 20:07:57 PDT 2014

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You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer.
http://perlweekly.com/archive/166.html

The main tech news of the week has to be the Shellshock exploit. Does it
affect Perl? Fortunately, not that much (David Farrell has the details). In
other news, a new version of DBD::SQLite will soon be released, a new Perl
book is in the making, and Perl will be participating in the next iteration
of the OPW -- all providing us with  delightful reasons for looking forward
to the months ahead. Enjoy!  ~ `/anick

Announcements

  Outreach Program for Women - Winter 2014 / 2015
  http://bit.ly/1vmTL9u

  A new edition of the Outreach Program for Women is rolling in, and Perl is
  happily involved, Karen Pauley reports.
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  Next stable DBD::SQLite to be released in late October
  http://bit.ly/1vmTL9x

  A new release of DBD::SQLite is coming this October, warns Kenichi
  Ishigaki. If you maintain a program using SQLite, it might be a good idea
  indeed to test your codebase against the current trial release. Just
  sayin'.
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  Breakfast, Lunch, Band & Social Event for Free
  http://bit.ly/1vmTL9A

  There will be food! And social events! And live music! Announces Stefan
  Hornburg, regarding the upcoming Dancer conference.
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  DWIM Perl for Linux 5.20.1-2 released
  http://bit.ly/1qMemO6

  DWIM Perl is a binary Perl distributions with 'batteries inside'. It is
  core Perl + a few hundred of the most commonly used 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:

  Testing timeout with cmp_ok
  http://bit.ly/1qMeqgG

  When can cmp_ok be useful.
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  Using 'like' to test without exact values
  http://bit.ly/1qMeqgK

  An introduction to the 'like' function provided by Test::More
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Articles

  Shellshock and Perl
  http://bit.ly/1qMeqgS

  By now everybody knows what the shellshock exploit is (or wonders why herds
  of sysadmins all over the world have been running around, arms flapping
  in abject panic, for the last few days). But what does it means for Perl?
  David Farrell has the answer.
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  Book Report - September 2014
  http://bit.ly/1qMen4w

  Toby Inkster is working on a Perl book, targered at intermediate-level
  programmers. The book-crafting is still in its early stage, but it looks
  very promising.
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Discussion

  My first Perl Mongers meeting
  http://bit.ly/1qMen4B

  This month's meeting of the Thames Valley perl mongers counted one presence
  in their midst. A young neophyte going by the name of Neil Bowers...
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  YAPC::Europe 2014 Survey results are online
  http://bit.ly/1qMen4I

  Barbie shares the survey results for YAPC::Europe 2014, and points out some
  of the most interesting statistics.
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  What is the Perl community?
  http://bit.ly/1qMeqgX

  lichtkind gives his personal answer to the question that is currently
  making the rounds.
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  Perl's Problems
  http://bit.ly/1qMenl5

  There is no light without darkness. No feast without heartburn. No language
  without, ah, irritating parts.  Dave Cross muses on what he thinks are
  Perl's own hercules's heels.
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Testing

  Test::More has lots of crazy new development that's breaking my modules
  http://bit.ly/1qMenle

  The new maintainers of Test::More have released some new trial version of
  the ubiquitous testing module. brian d foy asks: should cpan testers be
  testing, and reporting failures, of modules using these versions? A fair
  question, and it turns out that there are pretty good arguments for and
  against reporting against the bleeding edge.
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  CPAN Testers & pre-requisite reporting
  http://bit.ly/1qMeqxl

  "Reporting test failures of alpha releases: good or bad?" The discussion
  sparked by brian d foy continues here.
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Code

  A pre-release of Pod::Readme is available on CPAN
  http://bit.ly/1qMenBz

  Potentially interesting for CPAN authors: Robert Rothenberg's POD-to-README
  generator now has a pre-release available on CPAN.
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  Extended Rules to support Modern Perl in Atom symbols-view package
  http://bit.ly/1qMeqxq

  Thanks to Krasimir Berov, the Perl ctag support in GitHub's Atom editor
  just got a little bit moderner.
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Weekly collections

  StackOverflow Perl report
  http://bit.ly/1qMeqNG

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  MetaCPAN Weekly Report - Carton
  http://bit.ly/1qMenBG

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Perl Maven Tutorials

  Cloud automation at Digital Ocean using Perl
  http://bit.ly/1qMeqNJ

  How to use the API of Digital Ocean to start a new Droplet, do something
  and then shut it down again.
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  CPAN, mcpan, MetaCPAN
  http://bit.ly/1qMenBL

  A 2 min long screencast on searching for Perl modules on Google and how to
  arrive to the respective page on MetaCPAN.
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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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