From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Dec 15 00:47:33 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 08:47:33 -0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #177 - 'Tis the Season Message-ID: <20141215084658.CC355C510@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/177.html By now, it's fair to say we are squarely in Yulite territory and, as the countdown to the new Year is approaching the single digit fast, we can almost see 2015 at the horizon. To go with the seasonal mood, we have plenty of Advent calendars for you this week. And if the Holidays put you in an altruistic mood, we have a few articles hinting at projects where a helpful hand would be appreciated. Enjoy! ~ `/anick Sponsors We are Hiring a Senior Perl Software Developer - Grant Street Group https://apply.hrmdirect.com/resumedirect/ApplyOnline/Apply.aspx?req_id=enc-15.593755100595937&source=189688-CS-6734 We are a growing software company using open source software/modern Perl practices to build innovative e-payment, auction, and tax collection web applications. We are looking for talented, motivated professionals committed to flawless work and customer service. -------------- ============= Announcements New Perl 6 community server now live, accepting signups http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/2014-community-server-live.html It's alive! www.p6c.org is online and officially opened for business! -------------- Looking for new maintainer for Memcached::libmemcached http://blogs.perl.org/users/matthew_horsfall/2014/12/looking-for-new-maintainer-for-memcachedlibmemcached.html Memcached::libmemcached, just like Tiny Tim, needs some help. Will you be visited by the three ghosts of CPAN Past, Present and Yet To Be, and find in your heart the true meaning of co-maintenance? -------------- whatcanidoforperl.org http://whatcanidoforperl.org Want to help the Perl ecosystem, but not sure how. Fear not: a new site, whatcanidoforperl.org, is there to gently guide you toward your contributing destiny. -------------- ============= 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: Is this IP in the given subnet? http://perlmaven.com/pro/is-this-ip-in-the-given-subnet When trying to limit access to an application based on IP address, it should be easy to designate and then to check certain subnets as well. -------------- Test for expected warnings http://perlmaven.com/pro/test-for-expected-warnings A new entry in the Test automation with Perl series, testing if a function warns as expected. -------------- ============= Discussion Proposed convention for todo lists on CPAN http://neilb.org/2014/12/13/todo-convention-for-cpan.html Some peeps like to include a TODO list in their CPAN distributions, both as a reminder to oneself and as an inspiration for wannabe-helpers. Neil proposes here a simple Markdown format to standardize the practice. -------------- int main in C and hard coded directory separators in Perl http://blog.nu42.com/2014/12/int-main-in-c-and-hard-coded-directory.html In Perl-land, it's easy to lull oneself in the fallacy that all the world is UNIXish and do things like assuming that file path separators are always '/'s. Don't, Sinan begs of you, mostly considering that doing The Right Thing is not as hard as you might think. -------------- Hi, New World! https://andreeapirvulescu.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/hi-new-world/ MetaCPAN has a new pair of hands on deck. Andreea Pirvulescu will be working on CPAN search engine for the next three months, as part of the Outreach Program for Women. -------------- Perl Recruitment Thoughts http://perlhacks.com/2014/12/perl-recruitment-thoughts Dave muses on the where and how of recruiting good Perl developers. -------------- Dev Assistant http://perlhacks.com/2014/12/dev-assistant Dave came across 'Dev Assistant', a tool that aims at helping neophyte developers into the many steps standing between the initial itch to the publication of a project. They support Perl, which is awesome, but they might need help to bring their Perl support up to Modern Perl standards. So... who feels like assisting the assistant? -------------- ============= Code The Moose::Role Required "attributes" Bug http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/12/the-mooserole-required-attributes-bug.html Annoyed that you have to punt 'with' statements at the very bottom of class declarations? Read on, as Ovid has a workaround for that. -------------- Announcing WebService::Vultr v0.1 http://blogs.perl.org/users/eskaaren/2014/12/announcing-webservicevultr-v01.html Your e-sky is not overcast enough? One more cloud option opens to you as Vultr's API is now fully accessible via this new module. -------------- Automated Internet Explorer screenshots using Win32::OLE http://perltricks.com/article/139/2014/12/11/Automated-Internet-Explorer-screenshots-using-Win32--OLE If you are doing web testing on Windows platforms, you'll loooove want Sinan has for you. -------------- Controlling Firefox from Perl http://perltricks.com/article/138/2014/12/8/Controlling-Firefox-from-Perl It's possible, with the help of a Perl module and a Firefox add-on, to have those two pieces of software talk to each other like best buddies. Web testing, browsing automation, javascript shenanigans, think of the possibilities... -------------- ============= Weekly collections StackOverflow Perl report http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2014/12/clxiii-stackoverflow-perl-report.html -------------- MetaCPAN Weekly Report - Mojolicious::Plugin::FormFieldsFromJSON http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2014/12/cxxxviii-metacpan-weekly-report.html -------------- CPAN great modules released last week http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2014/12/vi-cpan-great-modules-released-last-week.html -------------- ============= Advent Calendars Perl http://perladvent.org -------------- Catalyst http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2014 -------------- Dancer http://advent.perldancer.org/2014 -------------- Perl 6 http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/ -------------- MST's http://shadow.cat/blog/matt-s-trout/mstpan-1/ -------------- Perlancar's http://blogs.perl.org/users/perlancar/2014/12/perlancars-2014-advent-calendar.html -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials Migrating (the Perl Maven site) from Dancer 1 to Dancer2 http://perlmaven.com/migrating-from-dancer-to-dancer2 It took several days but finally the Perl Maven site is running on the new Dancer 2 framework. 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