[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #181 - Pull, Request and Release!

Sun Jan 11 23:30:55 PST 2015

Perl Weekly 

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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.
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  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.
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  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?
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  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!
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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:

  Moose type constraints
  http://perlmaven.com/pro/moose-type-constraint

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  Moose testing type constraint
  http://perlmaven.com/pro/moose-test-type-constraint

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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.
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  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.
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  Keeping Perl Classy
  http://rose.github.io/posts/keeping-perl-classy/

  Rose interviewed haarg on Perl in general, and its OO aspect in particular.
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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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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!
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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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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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.
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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.
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  Getting Started with Bailador 
  http://perl6maven.com/getting-started-with-bailador

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  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.
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Weekly collections

  StackOverflow Perl report
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/01/clxvii-stackoverflow-perl-report.html

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  MetaCPAN Weekly Report - Web::Query
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/01/cxlii-metacpan-weekly-report-webquery.html

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  CPAN great modules released last week
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/01/x-cpan-great-modules-released-last-week.html

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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.
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