[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #170 - Last day for LPW submissions!

Mon Oct 27 00:53:05 PDT 2014

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Hi,

Lots of videos for you to watch this week, particularly those from the
Austrian Perl Workshop, held recently.

You might have noticed that MetaCPAN had a bumpy week, the result of a move
to new hardware in a different data centre, hopefully settled now. Olaf
tells me they're always looking for volunteers, want to help out?

Think carefully before giving feedback to Gabor on the Perl Weekly —
you might find yourself an editor!

Editor #3, Neil

Sponsors

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Tools

  Uni - find or display Unicode characters
  http://bit.ly/ZSyZ5b

  Rik Signes has (re)written a handy little tool for finding unicode
  characters, called uni. Fork it on github ("http://bit.ly/ZSyYOT") or get
  App::Uni ("http://bit.ly/ZSyZ57") from CPAN. It was a rewrite of a tool
  of the same name written by Audrey Tang.
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  A clone of search.cpan.org
  http://bit.ly/1wAKefF

  Gabor Szabo has started an open source clone of search.cpan.org,
  sco.perlmaven.com ("http://bit.ly/1wAKefE"), which is built on MetaCPAN's
  API.
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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:

  Organizing a test script with subtests
  http://bit.ly/ZSMulq

  When the number of your tests grow beyond 10 it might be a good time to
  split them up into subtests.
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  Getting started - Create skeleton for the SCO clone application
  http://bit.ly/ZSMuSx

  This is the first episode explainig how to build the search.cpan.org clone.
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Videos

  Austrian Perl workshop videos
  http://bit.ly/1wAKfjJ

  Videos from the recent Austrian Perl workshop are now on youtube. See Marko
  Jozic talking about Bootstrap and Dancer 2 for newbies; Tim Bunce on
  Devel::NYTProf; Stefan Seifert on Inline::Perl5; Paul Johnson on Docker;
  Lars Dieckow on HTTP tricks, and some guy called Larry.
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  Asynchronous Programming with Futures
  http://bit.ly/1wAKfjL

  Watch Paul Evans's talk from YAPC::EU, about his Future
  ("http://bit.ly/1wAKfjK") module on CPAN.
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  What Do Managerless Companies Look Like?
  http://bit.ly/1wAKfjN

  Ovid posted a link to the video of his opening keynote from YAPC::EU this
  year, also on YouTube.
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Awards (of fame and fortune)

  White camel awards 2014
  http://bit.ly/1wAKfA0

  brian d foy has called for nominations for this year's White Camel Awards,
  which are given for non-technical achievement in Perl and the Perl
  community. Add comments to the blog post, email brian, or tweet under
  #whitecamelaward.
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  Inline::C(PP) grant first weekly report
  http://bit.ly/1wAKew0

  Ingy and David have started a blog about their work on Inline::C and
  Inline::CPP which was awarded a grant. This week is mainly about
  bootstrapping themselves.
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Language

  Perl 5.21.5
  http://bit.ly/1wAKfA1

  Abigail did October's development release of Perl 5, which includes: the
  new 'double diamond' operator <<>>; aliasing of subroutines
  and variables; and more!
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  Stop using indirect object notation
  http://bit.ly/1wAKfA4

  Ovid had a mini rant on twitter, begging people to stop using indirect
  object notation (<tt>$object = new Class;</tt>). Paul Johnson directed
  people to a summary of problems with indirect object notation
  ("http://bit.ly/1wAKfA2") from tchrist, 16 years ago!
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  Perl's versatile split function
  http://bit.ly/1wAKew6

  David Farrell looks at some of the ways you can use the <tt>split()</tt>
  built-in.
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  Computed labels with next, last and redo
  http://bit.ly/1wAKfA6

  brian d foy shows how you can use <i>computed labels</i> with Perl 5.18+,
  letting you write <tt>next $label;</tt>.
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  Perl 6 weekly news
  http://bit.ly/1wAKfA9

  Timo's list of happenings in Perl 6 also includes a mini report on the
  Austrian Perl Workshop.
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  Perl5 vs Perl6 vs JS vs PHP
  http://bit.ly/1wAKew8

  @koorchik compared performance of 4 languages for computing Excel style
  formulae: code and results are on github ("http://bit.ly/1wAKew7").
  NodeJS solution by far the fastest, PHP and Perl5 similar but an order of
  magnitude slower, Perl 6 two orders of magnitude slower again.
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  Good looking addresses - solving the "Berlin, Berlin" bug
  http://bit.ly/1tYdGxi

  Ed Freyfogle explans the problem solved by the new Geo::Address::Formatter
  ("http://bit.ly/ZSMuSA") module.
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CPAN News

  The Bio-Community Perl toolkit for microbial ecology
  http://bit.ly/1wAKfAe

  Bio-Community ("http://bit.ly/1wAKfAc") is a toolkit that extends BioPerl
  to make life easier microbial ecologists. This is based on work by
  Florent Angly, Christopher Fields and Gene(!) Tyson.
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  Nestoria module of the month: Role::Tiny
  http://bit.ly/1wAKfQx

  This month the Nestoria team tip their hat to, and tip
  ("http://bit.ly/1wAKewa") Matt Trout ("http://bit.ly/1wAKfAg") for,
  Role::Tiny ("http://bit.ly/1wAKfAi").
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  Devel::DidYouMean
  http://bit.ly/1wAKewe

  David Farrell created Devel::DidYouMean ("http://bit.ly/1wAKewe")
  (currently tagged experimental), which “intercepts failed function
  and method calls, suggesting the nearest matching available subroutines
  in the context in which the erroneous function call was made”. It
  was inspired by the did_you_mean ("http://bit.ly/1wAKfQB") ruby gem.
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  File::Slurper
  http://bit.ly/1wAKfQC

  Leon Timmermans released File::Slurper ("http://bit.ly/1wAKfQC"),
  previously known as File::Slurp::Sane. It's intended as a replacement for
  File::Slurp ("http://bit.ly/1wAKfQF"), which has a number of problems
  ("http://bit.ly/1wAKeMu").
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  Paging Brent B Powers
  http://bit.ly/1wAKeMy

  Alex is looking for Brent B. Powers, the author of (amongst others)
  Tk::FileDialog and Tk::Waitbox. When an author is unresponsive, if you
  want to help out by taking over a module, you need to go to appropriate
  lengths to track down the author. This is a good time to remind you: when
  your email address changes, don't forget to update PAUSE, so people can
  keep in touch with you.
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Weekly collections

  Stackoverflow perl report
  http://bit.ly/1wAKfQH

  The ten most rated Perl questions on stackoverflow last week.
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  MetaCPAN favourites
  http://bit.ly/1wAKfQJ

  Newly favourited and most favourited distributions on MetaCPAN.
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Perl Maven Tutorials

  search.cpan.org: Authors, Recent, FAQ, Feedback
  http://bit.ly/1wAKeMz

  A screencast from Gabor which demonstrates search.cpan.org
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  MetaCPAN URLs and Issues
  http://bit.ly/1wAKfQL

  Gabor explains some of MetaCPAN's URL schemes, for getting the latest page
  for a module and distribution.
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Events

  The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop
  http://bit.ly/1wAKfQM

  The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is at the Doubletree Hotel, 8th & 9th of
  November.
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  London Perl Workshop
  http://bit.ly/1o0ctvT

  The London Perl Worshop is at Westminster University on Saturday 8th
  November. The deadline for submissions has been extended to 23:59 on
  Monday 27th October. Why not submit a lightning talk!
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  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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Not Perl, but may be of interest

  The npm registry roadmap
  http://bit.ly/1wAKeMD

  npm is the equivalent of CPAN for node.js. This blog post gives some usage
  stats and plans for the future.
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  Pro Git book 2nd edition
  http://bit.ly/1wAKeME

  The second edition of the Pro Git book, by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub, is
  now availble online, in PDF, mobi, or ePub format for free. You can buy a
  printed copy from your usual place.
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