From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Jan 11 23:30:55 2015 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 07:30:55 -0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #181 - Pull, Request and Release! Message-ID: <20150112073013.E3478C006@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/181.html The CPAN PR challenge is gathering heat as patches begin to appear and blog entries to surface. Catalyst sees another release, the plans for the new Test-Simple are going forward, and there is even some hopeful movements on the Perl 6 front. There is no way to know if it's going to be indicative of the full year, but January sure is busy. Enjoy! ~ `/anick Announcements London Perl Jobs Mailing List http://perlhacks.com/2015/01/london-perl-jobs-mailing-list The old London Perl Jobs mailing list is going down. Dave Cross, however, has set up a replacement, ready to take on the torch. -------------- Can you provide an x/y Point class in other languages? http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/01/can-you-provide-an-xy-point-class-in-other-languages.html Ovid needs you! He's crafting a Perl 6 presentation, and as a comparative exercise, he needs to have implementations of the classic Point class written in different languages. -------------- Test-Simple, Test-More, and Test-Builder. What is breaking? Should I be scared? http://blogs.perl.org/users/chad_exodist_granum/2015/01/test-simple-test-more-and-test-builder-what-is-breaking-should-i-be-scared.html So there is this new release of Test-Simple coming down the pipe. Considering that this is a linchpin modules of the Perl testing ecosystem, what exactly does it entail? -------------- MetaCPAN Welcomes Panopta as a Sponsor http://blogs.perl.org/users/olaf_alders/2015/01/metacpan-welcomes-panopta-as-a-sponsor.html The CPAN web portals, search.cpan.org and metacpan, are incredibly important for our day-to-day work, and it's easy to forget that their continued existence is usually fueled by the unrelentless dedication of a few volunteers and a budget that would make shoe strings seem opulent. In that optic, a new sponsor is always reason to celebrate. Huzzah for Panopta! -------------- ============= 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: Moose type constraints http://perlmaven.com/pro/moose-type-constraint -------------- Moose testing type constraint http://perlmaven.com/pro/moose-test-type-constraint -------------- ============= Articles Serializers for Perl: when to use what http://blogs.perl.org/users/aristotle/2015/01/perl-serializers.html YAML, JSON, Serial, so many serializers to choose from... Aristotle offers a brief overview of the serializing landscape, and provide guidance on when to use the different players in the field. -------------- Preliminary Task List for the next Perl Catalyst Development Cycle "Australorp" http://jjnapiorkowski.typepad.com/modern-perl/2015/01/preliminary-task-list-for-the-next-perl-catalyst-development-cycle-australorp.html A new release done and shipped. But no rest for the wicked: the next development cycle already starts for Catalyst. John shares with us its battleplan. -------------- Keeping Perl Classy http://rose.github.io/posts/keeping-perl-classy/ Rose interviewed haarg on Perl in general, and its OO aspect in particular. -------------- ============= Discussion How to make your first contribution to CPAN - the first steps http://nbezzala.blogspot.ca/2015/01/how-to-make-your-first-contribution-to.html Contributing to a CPAN module is more than a fork and a pull request. As he attacks his first PR mission, Nitish walks us through the finer details of submitting a change to a Perl distribution. -------------- What to do with a CPAN distribution http://neilb.org/2015/01/07/what-to-do.html For the participants of the CPAN PR challenge, Neil reviews what can be done with the distribution that lands in your laps. -------------- Always do pull requests in branches http://neilb.org/2015/01/10/pr-in-branch.html Neil discusses the etiquette (and good sense) of making small, well-isolated, easy to manage branches when submitting pull requests. -------------- CPAN Pull Request Challenge for January: DateTime::Format::Epoch https://huntingbears.nl/2015/01/11/cpan-pull-request-challenge-for-january-datetimeformatepoch/ Michiel Beijen got assigned DateTime::Format::Epoch for January. How did he improve on that elder module? By adding NTP support! -------------- ============= Code Downloading Criminal podcast episodes http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2015/01/downloading-criminal-podcast-episodes.html No, Sawyer is not going full black-hat on us. He's merely going through the exercise of writing a script that downloads all the episodes of this new podcast he found. -------------- Fancy Matching of Delimited Text http://savage.net.au/Ron/html/Fancy.Matching.of.Delimited.Text.html Want to match delimited text, but Text::Balanced and Regexp::Common aren't good enough for the job? Be happy, for there is a new Marpa-based solution in town. -------------- Awesome Perl https://github.com/hachiojipm/awesome-perl Not an article, but rather a list of want the curator considers awesome Perl libraries and frameworks. -------------- Getting Choosy http://blog.twoshortplanks.com/2015/01/10/getting-choosy/ For the interactive scripts running on MacOS, a new release of Mac::Choose is out, now offering additional drop-down shininess. -------------- A Higher Order Idea stolen from Ramda.js http://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-higher-order-idea-stloen-from-ramdajs.html Dave saw something neat in Ramda.js, and checked out how easy it'd be to port the idea in Perl-space. -------------- The Hills Have Multi-Faceted Eyes http://techblog.babyl.ca/entry/oculi Yanick ventured in his laboratory and spent a few hours stitching together a creature made of InfluxDB, Grafana and Bread::Board. -------------- Metaprogramming HTML::FormHandler http://domm.plix.at/perl/2015_01_metaprogramming_formhandler.html Web forms are a pain. Domm tries to reduce the overall amount of tedium via an intake of meta-programming. Smart move, or terrible mistake? You be the judge. -------------- Extracting from HTML with Mojo::DOM http://perltricks.com/article/143/2015/1/8/Extracting-from-HTML-with-Mojo--DOM Mojolicious comes with a lot of snazzy tools to retrieve and manipulate web content. brian demonstrates. -------------- ============= Grants Grant Reports for December http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/01/grant-reports-for-december.html Makoto reports on the Perl foundation grants for December. Inline::C/CPP as well as a new Perl::Lint are two improvements that should make people happy. -------------- ============= Perl 6 2015.01 Get ready to Party! https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/2015-01-get-ready-to-party/ Will 2015 be the year Christmas will come? It's way too early to say -- first, let's see about Easters -- but things are nonetheless stirring in the Perl 6 world. -------------- Getting Started with Bailador http://perl6maven.com/getting-started-with-bailador -------------- Timestamp and elapsed time in Perl 6 http://perl6maven.com/tutorial/timestamp Perl 6 has two separate functions fetching the time since the epoch and they return different results. As of today they are 35 seconds apart. -------------- ============= Weekly collections StackOverflow Perl report http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/01/clxvii-stackoverflow-perl-report.html -------------- MetaCPAN Weekly Report - Web::Query http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/01/cxlii-metacpan-weekly-report-webquery.html -------------- CPAN great modules released last week http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/01/x-cpan-great-modules-released-last-week.html -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials How to get the size of a file in Perl http://perlmaven.com/how-to-get-the-size-of-a-file-in-perl Using -s is simple, but looks strange for people not yet familiar with it. There are other, more readable ways to fetch the size of a file. -------------- ============= 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? 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