From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Oct 19 19:10:46 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 02:10:46 +0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #169 - TWiki-6.0.1 Released Message-ID: <20141020021046.A5F24C002@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/169.html Hi, APW - the Austrian Perl Workshop has ended and it created a flurry of Perl 6 related blog posts. I am not sure if the activity level of the Perl 6 developer was also substantially increased or not, but we, people who don't follow Perl 6 that closely can suddenly see that things are happening. That's great. BTW how do you like the changes in the Perl Weekly? Do you see the images on the right? Enjoy your week! ~szabgab Sponsors We are Hiring a Senior Perl Software Developer - Grant Street Group http://bit.ly/1rM04mw 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. -------------- ============= Articles Language Identification, Neural Networks and Perl http://bit.ly/1nwFPIW Alberto Sim?es has published a module related to a not yet published article. The module, Lingua::Identifier ("https://metacpan.org/pod/Lingua::Identifier") can be already found on CPAN. -------------- A study of code abstraction http://bit.ly/1nwFPJ0 A study of code abstraction: Modern developers are shielded from the inner workings of computers and networks thanks to several layers of code abstraction. We'll dig into those layers from a single line of Perl code, down to the bytes that get produced at the bottom of the API stack. (PDF) by Patrick Lambert (reddit ("http://bit.ly/1nwFPIX")) -------------- ============= 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: Creating a testing module http://bit.ly/1rmjSaG The third and final part of the mini-series in which we tested random numbers, abstracted out a testing function, and them moved it to a module to be usable by anyone. -------------- Test::Builder object http://bit.ly/1rmjSHJ Every example I see receives the singleton Test::Builder object in a different way. So what is the right way? -------------- ============= Testing How to test Perl roles without creating test classes http://bit.ly/1rmjSHL David Farrell is working on a 2D game engine called March which uses a composition pattern for its actors. This is how he tests the code. -------------- CPAN Testers Summary - September 2014 - Fire of Unknown Origin http://bit.ly/1nwFPZh The CPAN Testers service needs financial help to pay for the hosting. If your company relies on Perl and thinks that having high quality Perl modules is important for their business, let them know about the need! -------------- ============= Web Genome: behind the scenes http://bbc.in/1nwFPZl Andy Armstrong writes about the new BBC web site powered by Dancer. It is the effort to digitise all the issues of Radio Times between 1923 and 2009. They currently have 4,423,653 programmes from 4,469 issues. (reddit ("http://bit.ly/1nwFPZk")) -------------- TWiki-6.0.1 Released - Better Usability, Improved App Platform http://bit.ly/1nwFPZm Twiki is one of the biggest and most successful open source / commercial Perl projects. Now it has a new release. -------------- ============= Grants ACT - Voyager - logbook 2014-09-01 http://bit.ly/1nwFPse The first two reports about the ACT (A Conference Toolkit) grant -------------- ACT - Voyager - logbook 2014-10-01 http://bit.ly/1nwFPZn -------------- ============= Perl 6 Macros: thunkish parameters http://bit.ly/1nwFPZp Carl M?sak started a series of articles discussing macros in Perl 6. A huge topic with lot of unclear dark corners. See also the feedback ("http://bit.ly/1nwFPsh"). -------------- APW2014 and the Rakudo Great List Refactor http://bit.ly/1nwFPZr After long break Patrick Michaud writes a blog post about leaving flatland, how Perl 6 has less and less flattening functions and operators. -------------- Macros: nesting macros http://bit.ly/1nwFPZv How can macros relate to each other or use each other? AngularJS has outside-inside relationship. What should Perl 6 have? -------------- Flattening and such http://bit.ly/1nwFPsq Solomon Foster (colomon) is being confused by the flattening (or not) behaviour of Perl 6. So what can mere mortals say? -------------- ============= Weekly collections (clv) stackoverflow perl report http://bit.ly/1nwFPZx -------------- (cxxx) metacpan weekly report - Mojo::Pg http://bit.ly/1nwFQfK -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials MetaCPAN and the CPAN Testers http://bit.ly/1nwFQfN Short screencast starting at the MetaCPAN site and explainig a bit about the CPAN Testers. -------------- How to build perl from source on Linux http://bit.ly/1nwFQfO Plain simple instrctions for compiling perl for source code. -------------- Argument ... isn't numeric in numeric ... http://bit.ly/1nwFQfP A common warning explained -------------- ============= Events Perl-related events http://bit.ly/1bkDys0 In the following cities: Barcelona (Spain), London (UK), Pittsburgh (PA/USA), Helsinki (Finland), Paris (France) -------------- ============= You joined the Perl Weekly to get weekly e-mails about the Perl programming language and related topics. Want to see more? 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