From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Nov 2 23:36:34 2014
From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo)
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 07:36:34 +0000
Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #171 - Happy brithday DBI!
Message-ID: <20141103073634.9D7F6C002@s8.hostlocal.com>
Perl Weekly
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http://perlweekly.com/archive/171.html
Hello there!
as you can surely tell, there have been some changes in the Perl Weekly.
First of all let me welcome Neil Bowers, the newest addition to the Perl
Weekly editors. I am sure it will be a lot of fun for him and for you, the
reader who will see different styles of editing. This time in British
English. I hope my spell-checker won't 'fix' his words.
In order to make it easier to distinguish who is the editor, the From
address is now set to the current editor, and you will also see a small
avatars of the person to the right of this text. Somewhere there =>
In addition we started to include little avatars of the authors. I hope
this will make the whole newsletter more personal. We can't always find a
real picture of the person, but we'll try. If you see an article without an
image, and you can help finding one (80x80), please send it to us.
Lastly, for today, if you would like to submit an article or want to send a
comment to all the editors, please send it to the new
editors at perlweekly.com address.
Enjoy!
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Articles
Managing Boilerplate with Import::Base
http://bit.ly/1wr15ld
Copy-pasting code snippets is very unpleasant. The Modern::Perl module
addresses this issue, but introduces some other possible problems.
Import::Base makes it easy to create modules similar to Modern::Perl that
will import a number of other modules to fit your preferences. This might
not be a good idea in a publicly released module, but it might be useful
in a closed environment, such as an in-house project of a company where
you supposed to have better control over the code anyway.
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Reporting mismatched delimiters
http://bit.ly/1wr12G5
You probably have already encountered the case when Perl reports a syntax
error and provides a friendly suggestion: 'Might be a runaway multi-line
"" string starting on line 5'. Apparently, in the general case it is
quite hard to notice when delimiters don't match up. Jeffrey Kegler
explains how this can be done using Marpa.
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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:
Add some acceptance tests using search.cpan.org
http://bit.ly/1wr12Gc
In this project there is already a working application so we can write test
checking that working application so we'll have some tests ready by the
time we write the clone.
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Rename the SCO cloning project
http://bit.ly/1wZukL4
This is more of an exercise in using Git than coding in Perl.
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Testing
PPI 1.219_001 - please test - breaking ->prototype changes and parse improvements
http://bit.ly/1wZum5v
Mithaldu (aka. Christian Walde) is asking everyone involved to test the
release candidate of PPI.
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Web
Geekuni Dancer Web Development Course
http://bit.ly/1wZul1n
Geekuni is the web-based training environment developed by Andrew Solomon.
In this introductory article Nikos Vaggalis tells us about his experience
learning to use the Dancer 2 web framework.
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DBI
20 years and counting
http://bit.ly/1wZul1r
Do you want to be nostalgic? Apparently DBI is 20 years old.
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Grants
Maintaining the Perl 5 Core: Report for Month 12
http://bit.ly/1wZul1z
This is the regular report of Dave Mitchell.
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November 2014 Grant Votes
http://bit.ly/1wZul1C
Are you interested in getting a grant from The Perl Foundation? It is time
again to submit your proposal.
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Conferences
The Final YAPC::Asia Tokyo in 2015
http://bit.ly/1wZulhW
Daisuke Maki (lestrrat) writes that he is going to organize the biggest
ever YAPC::Asia, which as you might know is not specifically a Perl
event. It will also be the last one of its type. Unless of course someone
steps up to organize more. It will take place on 20-22 August, 2015 in
Tokyo.
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Stats
StackOverflow - Number of Perl questions by month
http://bit.ly/1wZuli0
Miguel Prz (niceperl) (the guy who has the weekly report about Perl on
StackOverflow), created a graph showing the number of Perl-related
questions. (It would be even more interesting to see that compared to the
number of Python/PHP etc. related questions, and the total number of
questions.) From this graph it seems that the summer of 2013 was the peak
for Perl. On Stack Overflow.
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Stats of 7 Perl-related web sites
http://bit.ly/1wZuli5
Two weeks ago I created this small table based on the numbers from Google
Analytics. The number of monthly users on search.cpan.org was 429,479. On
metacpan.org it was 86,013.
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Perl 6
Perl6 Pi and continued fractions
http://bit.ly/1wZummc
Way too much pie!
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Fun
Veure Update: Missions
http://bit.ly/1wZumCs
Veure is an MMORPG created by Curis 'Ovid' Poe in Perl with some nice
images.
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What does int a, b, c do in Perl?
http://bit.ly/1wZumCt
Strange question that appeared on Stack Overflow explained by Sinan Unur.
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Training
Upcoming Training in London
http://bit.ly/1wZulyo
Dave Cross is running several course in the next couple of weeks in London.
'Intermediate Perl' and 'Advanced Perl Techniques' 2 days for each
course.
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Weekly collections
(clvii) stackoverflow perl report
http://bit.ly/1wZulyp
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(cxxxii) metacpan weekly report - Import::Base
http://bit.ly/1wZulyu
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Perl Maven Tutorials
How to process command line arguments in Perl using Getopt::Long
http://bit.ly/1wZulyx
Accepting command line arguments is a very common taks in command line
scripts. People who are not familiar with one of the @ARGV processing
modules will write a lot of unnecessary and buggy code unwinding the
values from @ARGV. This article covers one of the most commonly used
module to handle command line arguments.
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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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