[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #176 - Advent ahoy!

Mon Dec 8 00:32:30 PST 2014

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Hi,

Lots of Advent articles in the last week, and plenty more besides.

The articles are all written by volunteers — why not see if you can
help out?

Developer releases of Catalyst and Perl::Critic need their tyres kicking,
so get ya boots on!

Editor #3, Neil

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Roles

  Of course you can `requires` attributes!
  http://bit.ly/1u7JfiT

  Philippe Bruhat presents a problem with use of requires
  ("http://bit.ly/1u7Jf2z") when working with roles, and also presents a
  solution. 
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  Using Roles as Partial Classes
  http://bit.ly/1CXS4VZ

  Curtis Poe describes how roles can be treated as partial classes
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXS4VW"), a concept in some languages, where a class can
  be split into multiple files. A bit like roles, you might be thinking. 
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Module news

  Test-Simple release candidates
  http://bit.ly/1CXS6x5

  Chad Granum posted an update on changes to Test::Builder
  ("http://bit.ly/1u7Qd7z"), Test::Simple ("http://bit.ly/1u7QbfX"), and
  Test::More ("http://bit.ly/1u7Qd7E"). These changes will be part of Perl
  5.22. 
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  Development release 001 of Catalyst 5.90080
  http://bit.ly/1CXS7RD

  John Napiorkowski announces a developer release with a lot of fixes related
  to UTF-8 and encoding. "If you never bother to test development releases
  of Catalyst, this is the one time you really should". 
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  Test::Perl::Critic Is Now Wicked Fast
  http://bit.ly/1CXS6xc

  Jeffrey Thalhammer announced a developer release of a new version of
  Perl::Critic ("http://bit.ly/1CXWxI6"), which now uses MCE
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXWuMw") to run tests in parallel. 
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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 "404 Not Found" page
  http://bit.ly/1CXS6Nt

  Added a custom 404 error page to your project. 
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  Protecting from a crash
  http://bit.ly/1CXS885

  Something about protecting from a crash. 
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Misc

  Pretty-printing multiple arrays
  http://bit.ly/1CXS88b

  Curtis Poe posted a small programming challenge, and a bunch of people gave
  their solutions (in the comments, gists, etc). 
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  Adventures with XML
  http://bit.ly/1CXS88d

  Nestoria describe how they process a lot of data in XML using XML::Simple
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXWxIb"). 
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  Perl 5 Regex quantifiers
  http://bit.ly/1CXS88f

  Gabor explains regular expression <em>quantifiers</em>, which specify how
  many of a given sub-pattern you want to match. 
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  Time is a scarce resource
  http://bit.ly/1CXS8oE

  Sinan Unur muses (more than ("http://bit.ly/1CXS8ox") once
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXS6NG")) on the right thing to do when you hit problems
  trying to install someone else's software. These resonated with me, since
  I spent way too long trying to get GD ("http://bit.ly/1u7Qdo5") and
  GD::Graph ("http://bit.ly/1u7QbwD") working on a machine last week.
  Sometimes, when you've got the damn thing working, you're out of time and
  energy, and just need to move on. And sometimes not. 
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  NICEPERL's lists
  http://bit.ly/1CXS8oL

  Miguel Prz's regular lists: Great modules released last week
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXS8oL"); MetaCPAN weekly report
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXS8oN"); StackOverflow Perl report
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXS8oO"). 
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Community

  Interview with Olaf Alders
  http://bit.ly/1CXS742

  Viacheslav Tykhanovskyi interviewed Olaf Alders, the founder of MetaCPAN.
  Topics covered: how he got started in Perl, what led to MetaCPAN, and his
  current web framework of choice. 
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  Nestoria's module of the month: Perl::Critic
  http://bit.ly/1CXS8F8

  Each month Nestoria tip their hat, and wallet, to a favourite module.
  November's choice was Perl::Critic ("http://bit.ly/1CXWxI6"). 
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  The patch -p2 hackathon in Lyon is over
  http://bit.ly/1CXS8Fc

  Philippe Bruhat might count as a professional workshop organiser. He
  reports on a recent hackathon held in Lyon, without actually mentioning
  what they were hacking on. 
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CPAN News

  First release of lib::projectroot
  http://bit.ly/1CXS74c

  Thomas Klausner has released lib::projectroot ("http://bit.ly/1u7QdEs"),
  which makes it easier to load all the project-specific, non-CPAN code
  ("DarkPAN") in your project's scripts 
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  Pod::Readme can now be used with Dist::Zilla
  http://bit.ly/1CXS8VD

  Robert Rothenberg has released a new version of Pod::Readme
  ("http://bit.ly/1u7QdEw") which has hooks for working with Dist::Zilla
  ("http://bit.ly/1u7QdEB"). This means your pod can now include sections
  just for inclusion in the README, for example. 
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Things written in Perl

  i-Mage announced
  http://bit.ly/1CXS7kw

  Steve Cookson emailed the wxPerl mailing list, "After six years of graft
  and toil we have just launched our project  i-Mage at a medical
  conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil". 
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  What's new in OTRS 4?
  http://bit.ly/1CXS8VL

  OTRS is an open-source ticketing system written in Perl (Wikipedia page
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXS8VK")). Version 4 was released recently; one of the
  changes was to move to the Template ("http://bit.ly/1u7QdEG") toolkit. 
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Perl Foundation Grants

  Tony Cook's grant report
  http://bit.ly/1CXS8VN

  This kind of work is critical to keeping Perl moving forward, and stopping
  the bit-rot. 
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  Inline grant weekly report #7
  http://bit.ly/1CXS7kD

  Ingy and David describe their recent work to make "auto-stubbing" a
  reality. This lets you create lightweight modules in C using Inline,
  rather than going full-fat XS. 
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Advent calendars

  The Perl 5 Advent Calendar
  http://bit.ly/1z72lt4

  Mark Fowler has been doing a sterling job on this advent calendar thus far,
  covering Test::TempDir::Tiny ("http://bit.ly/1z72mgn"),
  Mac::Safari::JavaScript ("http://bit.ly/1CXS9c7"), HTTP::Tiny
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXS9c9"), Plack ("http://bit.ly/1CXS7kK"), Sub::Util
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXS7B0"), Test::DatabaseRow ("http://bit.ly/1CXS9cb"),
  and Time::Limit ("http://bit.ly/1CXS9cc"). 
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  The Perl 6 Advent Calendar
  http://bit.ly/1CXSawR

  A selection of authors have so far covered: The State of Perl 6 in 2014
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXS7B8"), Rakudobrew ("http://bit.ly/1CXS7Bc"), Cap your
  junctions ("http://bit.ly/1CXS7Be"), Composers, Coercers, and the Case of
  a Camel's Curious Corner ("http://bit.ly/1CXSawF"), Act with great
  Responsibility ("http://bit.ly/1CXSawJ"), Running External Programs from
  Perl 6 ("http://bit.ly/1CXSawL"), and That's how we .roll these days
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXS9cg"). 
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  PERLANCAR's Advent Calendar
  http://bit.ly/1CXSaNk

  Steven Haryanto is being greedy or impressive, or both, describing one of
  his 2014 modules each day. So far: App::jpath ("http://bit.ly/1z72lt3"),
  App::nauniq ("http://bit.ly/1CXSawW"), DBIx::Diff::Struct
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXS9cm"), App::datecalc ("http://bit.ly/1CXSaNd"),
  App::rmhere ("http://bit.ly/1CXSaNe"), File::umask
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXSaNg"), and App::SetScreensaverTimeout
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXS9sE"). 
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  Matt Trout's Advent Posts
  http://bit.ly/1CXSb3G

  Matt Trout is giving his thoughts on themed modules each day. So far: web
  frameworks ("http://bit.ly/1CXSaNo"), web deployment
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXSaNp"), XML ("http://bit.ly/1CXSaNq"), HTML
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXS9sK"), Files ("http://bit.ly/1CXSaNt"), 
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  Dancer Advent Calendar
  http://bit.ly/1CXSbkf

  The Dancer project have their own advent calendar too. Topics so far:
  Another year of Dancing ("http://bit.ly/1z72lJn"), Starting anew
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXSb3M"), Migrating to Dancer 2
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXSb3Q"), Your website in a Carton box
  ("http://bit.ly/1CXSb3S"), Packing the Fat ("http://bit.ly/1CXS9sO"),
  Static file serving in Dancer 2 ("http://bit.ly/1CXSb3Y"), and Doing an
  API mashup with Dancer ("http://bit.ly/1CXS9sP"). 
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