[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #168 - Some Berry Good News For Windows Users
Yanick Champoux
yanick at babyl.ca
Sun Oct 12 23:05:48 PDT 2014
Perl Weekly
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You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer.
http://perlweekly.com/archive/168.html
This week we have something that is bound to make our Windows-using
brethren happy: berrybrew, a perlbrew/plenv equivalent for Strawberry Perl,
by David Farrell. We also have a few nice grant reports. And, in the
everlasting fun department, Sinan's playing with quines lead to dark
archaeological discoveries about 'open' and 'autodie'. Enjoy! Oh, and if
you are based in Canada, happy Thanksgiving! ~ `/anick
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Announcements
Hello berrybrew, the Strawberry Perl version manager
http://bit.ly/ZWbE3C
Windows users, prepare to squeal in glee. David Farrell introduces his
berrybrew, a Strawberry Perl version manager (think perlbrew/plenv, but
for the Windows platform).
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Articles
10 ways of implementing Polymorphism
http://bit.ly/ZWbE3D
Caleb Cushing reviews the -- fittingly -- many ways that can be used to
implement polymorphism.
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Testing
Travis-CI Helpers for Perl
http://bit.ly/ZWbCbW
Want to harness the full power of Travis-CI for your Perl projects? Graham
Knop has a few helper tools that will assist you on your quest for the
Continuous Integration Grail.
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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:
Multiple expected values - testing dice
http://bit.ly/1xIO2uk
How can you test a function such as dice() that is expected to return a
whole number between 1 and 6? How not to test it?
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Implementing 'is_any' to test multiple expected values
http://bit.ly/1xIO2KE
Refactoring the test script, creating a test function.
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Code
Building Ansible Modules with Perl and Mojolicious
http://bit.ly/1xIO2KG
Ansible is one of those snazzy tools that automate the installation and
management of software/configuration/all the things on armies of
machines. It's written in Python, but works well with components written
in anything else. Marcus Ramberg shows us how his Perl scripts
interfaces with it using Mojolicious.
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Elasticsearch Custom Scoring
http://bit.ly/1xIO2KI
Elasticsearch default scoring doesn't quite do it for your special case?
Despair not, for Mateu shows us here how to tweak the scoring algorithm
in any way we want.
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Why was documentation for open FILEHANDLE removed from perlfunc?
http://bit.ly/ZWbCbZ
Mistake, or sinister conspiracy to mask Perl's terrible secrets? Sinan Unur
unearthed hidden lore about the 'open' function from Perl's git history.
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A bug in Perl's autodie
http://bit.ly/ZWbE3J
While crafting a Perl quine, Sinan Unur came across a very peculiar corner
case bug of autodie.
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The Hacker News API
http://bit.ly/ZWbEjX
Neil Bowers released a Perl interface to the Hacker News API. It's new,
it's basic but, and that's the important part, it's there and working;
patches will eventually take care of the rest.
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Synchronizing Opera bookmarks with Perl, Org, and git
http://bit.ly/ZWbEjY
A little bit of glue can do wonders to tie systems together. Here,
perlancar shows us a script he's using to turn his browser's bookmarks in
a git-monitored syncable Org document.
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Fun
How does open 0; print <0>; turn every Perl program into a quine?
http://bit.ly/ZWbCc3
In the scientific world "now that's funny..." usually announces a major
breakthrough. In the Perl world, as Sinan Unur illustrates, it's
typically a harbinger of golfing fun.
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Grants
Tony Cook's Grant Extended
http://bit.ly/ZWbEjZ
Tony Cook will be able to dedicate 400 more hours on the noble task of
maintaining Perl 5, Karen Pauley reports.
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Final TPF Devel::Cover grant report
http://bit.ly/ZWbEk2
Paul Johnson reports on his awesome Devel::Cover work (tl;dr? just go to
cpancover.com ("http://bit.ly/1jtIgHM") and stare at the covered beauty
of it all).
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Perl 6
2014.40: Weekly changes in and around Perl 6
http://bit.ly/ZWbEk3
timotimo reviews what happened in the world of Perl6 this week.
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Weekly collections
StackOverflow Perl report
http://bit.ly/ZWbCsk
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MetaCPAN Weekly Report - Mojo::Pg
http://bit.ly/ZWbEk5
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Perl Maven Tutorials
Which Perl modules are loaded in memory?
http://bit.ly/ZWbEk6
Explaining %INC.
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MetaCPAN Task::Kensho
http://bit.ly/ZWbCsl
Screencast about Task::Kensho, the list of recommended modules.
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Events
Perl-related events
http://bit.ly/1bkDys0
In the following cities: Barcelona (Spain), London (UK), Pittsburgh
(PA/USA), Helsinki (Finland), Paris (France)
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