From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Dec 29 01:01:56 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 09:01:56 -0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #179 - Getting ready for New Year's resolution Message-ID: <20141229090004.7F5CDC74F@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/179.html Hi, It is really strange. Now that both Yanick Champoux and Neil Bowers edit the Perl Weekly my appearances here got quite rare. I guess for the better. So let's thank them for this great year! Please, flood their inboxes with good wishes! I am really looking for the start of the next year. I have a lot of plans with my web sites and with my open source applications. Actually I could not wait and have already started to publish on the Perl 6 Maven site. (See below.) Now I don't know what about you, but if you are looking for something that will put you in some kind of a rhythm, you could join the CPAN Challenge Neil announced. It is both a great way to contribute back to the open source code pool of Perl and a great way to improve yourself. (see below). See you on the other side of New Year's Eve! Articles Regexp::Debugger http://blog.twoshortplanks.com/2014/12/29/regexpdebugger/ An article that was left out from the Perl Advent calendar telling you to use Regexp::Debugger because it is awesome! -------------- ============= Testing CPAN Testers Summary - November 2014 - Who Do We Think We Are http://blog.cpantesters.org/diary/193 Links to talks about CPAN Testers at the LPW. Another Metabase overflow. An Admin-site bug. -------------- ============= Web Working with Jolly Santa's Outstanding Notes http://techblog.babyl.ca/entry/merry-xmas This is an Advent Calendar overflow about handling the favorite web-scale data structure during the XMas Holidays and after them. The think is, that tools like this and articles like this should reach people outside the Perl echo chamber. -------------- Perl Catalyst 5.90079 Development 004 'Holland' On CPAN http://jjnapiorkowski.typepad.com/modern-perl/2014/12/perl-catalyst-590079-development-004-holland-on-cpan.html After quite a long silence, finally there is a newly announced version of Catalyst. I wonder if one could combine helping Catalyst move forward with the Pull-request challenge of Neil Bowers? -------------- You have nothing to lose but your chains! http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2014/12/you-have-nothing-to-lose-but-your-chains.html Joel explains that there are two different method chaining styles. In one case methods return the objects they acted upon allowing the user to call another method of the same class. The other one is when a method returns an object of some different type so that you can chain a method of that object after the first call. I don't see a huge difference, but he gives an example for the latter in the Mojolicious world. -------------- ============= CPAN Take the 2015 CPAN Pull Request Challenge http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2014/12/take-the-2015-cpan-pull-request-challenge.html It is still not too late to get to the starting line. In order to encourage cooperation with other CPAN authors, Neil is organizing a little competition: Will you be able to handle it? -------------- Speaker for the dead http://blogs.perl.org/users/aristotle/2014/12/speaker-for-the-dead.html In contrast to the Challenge above, Aristotle shows how he wrapped up and deleted a CPAN module that is probably not going to be useful for anyone anymore. But maybe... -------------- The camel replicates! http://g14n.info/2014/12/the-camel-replicates/ What do you do if the server you need to install CPAN modules to does not have Internet access? You create a Mini-CPAN on another machine and then somehow transfer it to the server without Internet access. -------------- ============= Fun Newwwwwww QuadCopter! http://www.wumpus-cave.net/2014/12/24/newwwwwww-quadcopter/ No Perl code here, but now that the Wumpus Cave received a new QuadCopter, I am expecting lots of new Perl code and articles flying above our heads. -------------- ============= Grants Inline Grant Weekly Report #9 http://inline.ouistreet.com/node/u2gc.html They promised it by Christmas and they have delivered it by Christmas. This is the new way to write Perl XS modules. See also their previous progress report ("http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/12/grant-report-inlinecpp---decem.h tml"). -------------- ============= Perl 6 Rakudo Star Release 2014.12 http://rakudo.org/2014/12/26/announce-rakudo-star-release-2014-12/ New release of Rakudo Start - the package that contains the most recent version of the Perl 6 compiler, documentation and some extra modules. And then a quick update ("http://rakudo.org/2014/12/27/update-to-rakudo-star-release-2014-12/") with 2014.12.1 -------------- Installing Rakudo Perl 6 http://perl6maven.com/tutorial/perl6-installing-rakudo After another long break, I have updated the code behind the Perl 6 Maven site and started to update the tutorial as well. This is the first page showing how to install the newly release Rakudo Star on OSX and Linux. -------------- ============= Other UTF-8 output in cmd.exe: perl 5 vs perl 6 http://blog.nu42.com/2014/12/utf-8-output-in-cmdexe-perl-5-vs-perl-6.html Does Perl 6 think that everything is Unix? Or is it just the current version of the implementation? -------------- ============= Advent Calendars The Perl 6 Advent Calendar http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/ The Cool subset of MAIN. ("http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/22/the-cool-subset-of-main/"), Webscale sorting of the sleepy kind ("http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/webscale-sorting-of-the-sle epy-kind/"), Seeing Wrong Right ("http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/24/day-24-seeing-wrong-right/" ) -------------- Perl Advent Calendar 2014 Stats http://blog.twoshortplanks.com/2014/12/23/perl-advent-calendar-2014-stats/ This is a meta article about the Perl Advent Calendar. Most importantly, the Elves beat Santa by 44:38. -------------- The Perl 5 Advent Calendar http://perladvent.org/2014/ A Holiday PAPR-ation ("http://perladvent.org/2014/2014-12-22.html"), CLDR TL;DR ("http://perladvent.org/2014/2014-12-23.html"), Out of Order Perl ("http://perladvent.org/2014/2014-12-24.html") -------------- Dancer Advent Calendar http://advent.perldancer.org/2014 The Dancer community policy ("http://advent.perldancer.org/2014/22"), Dynamic routing in Dancer is dynamic ("http://advent.perldancer.org/2014/23"), Past and future ("http://advent.perldancer.org/2014/24") -------------- Perlancar's advent calendar http://blogs.perl.org/users/perlancar/2014/12/perlancars-2014-advent-calendar.html Safer system() alternative (Sys::Run::Safer) ("http://blogs.perl.org/users/perlancar/2014/12/day-22-safer-system-alter native-sysrunsafer.html"), App::chart and Text::chart ("http://blogs.perl.org/users/perlancar/2014/12/day-23-appchart-and-textc hart.html"), Games! ("http://blogs.perl.org/users/perlancar/2014/12/day-24-games.html") -------------- ============= Weekly collections The collections of http://niceperl.blogspot.com/ CPAN great modules released last week ("http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2014/12/viii-cpan-great-modules-released-l ast.html"); Metacpan weekly report - Struct::Dumb & Statistics::NiceR ("http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2014/12/cxl-metacpan-weekly-report-structd umb.html"); Stackoverflow perl report ("http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2014/12/clxv-stackoverflow-perl-report.htm l") -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials How to grep a file using Perl http://perlmaven.com/how-to-grep-a-file-using-perl Writing a Perl replacement of the Unix grep command does not have much value, unless you do something much better, or if you want to reimplement the Unix commands in Perl. Nevertheless it can be a good exercise, and it can be a learning or teaching aid. -------------- ============= Events YAPC::NA::2015 Call for Papers - New Deadline! http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/12/yapcna2015-call-for-papers---n.html The new deadline is March 1st so you have 2 more month to have a last-minute rush of submitting your talk proposal. -------------- ============= 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. You can freely redistribute this message if you keep the whole message intact, including the Copyright notice and this text. 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