[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #171 - Happy brithday DBI!

Sun Nov 2 23:36:34 PST 2014

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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 <b>all</b> the editors, please send it to the new
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Enjoy!

Sponsors

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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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