From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Nov 16 23:50:57 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 07:50:57 +0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #173 - Get ready to party! Message-ID: <20141117075057.6719DC496@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/173.html Hi, I am not sure what does that really signify, but apparently there is going to be a Larry Wall presentation at FOSDEM where he will says something like Perl 6 being production ready. It is still a couple of month from now at the end of January in Brussels, but you might want to plan ahead to be there when this happens. Till then there are some more things to do. ~szabgab Sponsors Perl Recruitment by a CPAN contributor http://bit.ly/1uwKNXC I'm a Perl programmer and open-source developer who also specialises in Perl recruitment in Europe. If you want to know if you're being paid enough, want some help with your CV, or just want to talk to a recruiter who knows the difference between 'local' and 'my', say hello at: http://perl.careers/ ("http://bit.ly/1uwKNXC"). -------------- ============= Announcements Get ready to party! http://bit.ly/1uwKNXE It is really unclear what does this event cover, but it seems Larry Wall is going to give a talk at FOSDEM in Brussels in February 2015, where he will talk about Perl 6 being production ready in the same year. Looks interesting and FOSDEM is probably the biggest Open Source event in the world with over 5,000 visitors. -------------- GitPrep 1.9 release, Atom feed of commit log support, short ssl url support http://bit.ly/1EPSklD GitPrep is an open source clone of GitHub written in Perl. It makes it easy to maintain GitHub repositories on your own server. -------------- ============= Articles Who put an extra CR in my CRLF? Fun with PerlIO layers http://bit.ly/1EPSklE -------------- ============= 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: Looking at a specific commit in GitHub http://bit.ly/1EPSnhf When you follow the development of a project on GitHub, for example the search.cpan.org cloning project, you might want to take a look at the source code after specific commits. You might even want to run the code at that point in time. In this screencasts you'll see 3 ways to look at the source code and 2 ways to even run it as it was at any given time in the past. -------------- Create the search.cpan.org look and feel http://bit.ly/1uwKOL6 Earlier we created a skeleton web application based on PSGI and moved the plain HTML code we had into external templates using Template::Toolkit. It is time to convert that to look like the front page of search.cpan.org. -------------- ============= Discussion We are all Perl's ambassadors... http://bit.ly/1uwKOLe I thought pointing out someone who was nasty to a fellow Perl developer would make more noise, but so far it seems that people try to give a technical solution to a social problem. Interesting. -------------- ============= Testing Tests should not fail due to EOL differences across platforms http://bit.ly/1uwKNXR I totally agree with Sinan, especially when we are talking about such central module as Module::Install. The question, how can one easily notice and correct if one of the tests fails due the line ending differences between Windows and Unix and is there an article with 'best practices' for such situation? -------------- ============= Code Git-Like Menus http://bit.ly/1uwKOLh After a long break finally a new article from Buddy Burden! A combination of some interesting modules such as IO::Prompter and Method::Signatures to build a menu-system. -------------- ============= Web Interactive Fiction Competition http://bit.ly/1uwKOLk I know it is going to be too late for you to participate, and I am quite embarrassed that I forgot to include this entry in the previous two editions, but at least I remember now. Jason McIntosh pointed it out to me that the web site of the annual Interactive Fiction Competition now runs on Catalyst. (Source code available here ("http://bit.ly/1uwKOLi").) You won't be able to participate, not even as public judges because of me forgetting to include it earlier, but at least you can start preparing yourself for next year! -------------- Interpolatable HTTP status codes: Another way http://bit.ly/1uwKQTs Sinan is using Const::Fast to export the values of HTTP::Status in a read-only hash called %HTTP. An exercise in diversity of solutions for the same problem. -------------- LPW and Perl WebBook http://bit.ly/1uwKOLn Dave Cross got fed up by people wanting to solve problems using CGI while there are more modern solutions so he gave a lightning and announced he is going to write a new book covering modern Perl development. It's a funny coincidence that I've just posted an article listing the CGI-related Perl Maven articles. -------------- ============= Windows 64-bit Perl 5.20.1 with Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition on Windows 8.1 http://bit.ly/1uwKOLo Microsoft have made Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition available. You can use it for free. Sinan took it for a ride to compile Perl. -------------- ============= Grants Inline Grant Weekly Report #4 http://bit.ly/1uwKP1C Another inline report from the David Oswald, Ingy dot Net duo. - Inline::Module is being designed to allow module authors to write their module using Inline (C, CPP), and publish their distribution. But the end CPAN user doesn't need to care about Inline; when they install the module it transforms to plain XS, free of external dependencies. -------------- November 2014 Grant Proposal http://bit.ly/1uwKP1G This month there was only one grant proposal. Nevertheless you should still read about it and comment on it. -------------- ============= Slides How to write a Developer CV/Resume that will get you hired http://bit.ly/1uwKP1J Peter has at one time occupied each one of the 4 roles that are dealing with the requirement of an employee so he probably knows what each one of those, including the employee, want to see in the CV. But remember, he is from the UK. In other countries his advice might be counterproductive. Or maybe they are even better than in the UK. -------------- Tour of Imager http://bit.ly/1uwKP1K Imager is a library to generate and manipulate 24 bit images. In these slides you'll see some nice images and how they were changed by JT Smith. -------------- ============= Weekly collections (ii) CPAN great modules released last week http://bit.ly/1uwKP1L -------------- (cxxxiv) metacpan weekly report - Gazelle http://bit.ly/1uwKP1N -------------- (clix) stackoverflow perl report http://bit.ly/1uwKP1Q -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials How to read a password on the command line? http://bit.ly/1uwKR9Y Allowing the user to provide password on the command line in clear text forms is not a good idea. Letting them type it in on STDIN will expose the password to shoulder surfers. Term::ReadPassword::Win32 allows you to read in a password without echoing it back to the screen. -------------- Levels of security using (R)?ex http://bit.ly/1uwKRa2 (R)?ex is a REmote Execution tool to automate deployment and configuration management. In this article I tried to cover some of the ways you can handle the security part of using it. Specifically the tension between being fully automatic vs secure. -------------- CGI - Common Gateway Interface http://bit.ly/1uwKRqi CGI might not be the darling of web development any more, but it is still used in plenty of places, it is still useful, and it is still associated with Perl. This is the collection of a few CGI related Perl Maven articles. -------------- ============= Events Perl-related events http://bit.ly/1bkDys0 In the following cities: Paris and Lyon (France) -------------- ============= You joined the Perl Weekly to get weekly e-mails about the Perl programming language and related topics. Want to see more? See the archives ( http://perlweekly.com/archive/ ) of all the issues. Reading this as a non-subscriber? Join us free of charge. http://perlweekly.com/ (C) Copyright Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/ The articles are copyright the respective authors. 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