From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Jan 25 22:56:03 2015 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 06:56:03 +0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #183 - Glyphs and Badges Message-ID: <20150126065603.F2471C00E@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/183.html We're already at our fourth edition for this year. January is almost over -- that sound you're hearing is the PR Challenge contestants hurrying to get their patches ready before February rolls in. In other news, we have some visual candy for you this month: David Farrell brings us some new nifty Perl-themed glyphs, and mdk crafted a badge for all the CPAN testers out there. Enjoy! ~ `/anick Announcements OpenWest 2015 - Call for Papers http://blogs.perl.org/users/dean/2015/01/openwest-2015---call-for-papers.html Feeling like going West in May? OpenWest is having its call for papers as we speak. -------------- Introducing 3 new Perl Glyphs http://perltricks.com/article/146/2015/1/23/Introducing-3-new-Perl-Glyphs Thanks to David, you can now augment your herd of glyphs with Perl's well-known sigils -- the camel, the onion and Camelia the butterfly, they are now available in beautifully scalable svg glory. -------------- ============= Articles Ranking CPAN dists for the PR Challenge http://neilb.org/2015/01/19/prc-scoring.html For the PR Challenge, Neil had to come up with a way to rank CPAN distributions and figure out which ones are the best candidates for the challenge. He explains here the heuristics he's using to come up with that score. -------------- The Perl QA Hackathon 2015 http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2015/01/the-perl-qa-hackathon-2015.html "What is the Perl QA HAckathon, and why should I care?" Good questions, and master Bowers provides equally good answers. -------------- Yak-Shaving January 2015 http://reneeb-perlblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/yak-shaving-january-2015.html Rare indeed are the developer tasks for which the path to realization is a straight one. Ren?e's journey in January seems to have been particularly sinuous. -------------- ============= 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: Modules in Perl http://perlmaven.com/pro/modules -------------- Namespaces and packages http://perlmaven.com/pro/namespaces-and-packages -------------- ============= Discussion The Testers Need a Badge http://shadow.cat/blog/mark-keating/2015/04-cpantesters/ CPAN Testers, integral to the success of Perl as an ecosystem, but seldom actively noticed. To let those unsung heroes taste a little bit of the glamour, mdk proposes a series of smoking signs. -------------- How OBVIOUS things get missed to be done... or seen... http://blogs.perl.org/users/krasimir_berov/2015/01/how-obvious-things-get-missed-to-be-done-or-seen.html Krasimir submitted a grant proposal for Ado, a dependency-light application and framework for web projects based on Mojolicious. Here, he makes his case for it, as well as present the tenets he's holding its code to. -------------- ============= Code Setting up a Perl Development Environment with plenv http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/2390/setting-up-a-perl-development-environment-with-plenv/ David gives a straight-up, no-nonsense set of steps to get you a plenv-based Perl environment up and running in, oh, probably less than 10 minutes. -------------- Asynchronous Musings https://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/posts/asyncronous-musings Could have been called "Embrassing the Future(s)", as fREW leverages these constructs for asynchronous programming. -------------- CPAN Cleaning Day 2457044: Compiler::Lexer http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2015/01/cpan-cleaning-day-2457044-compilerlexer.html Using the postfix deferences that came with Perl 5.20? If you do, you might notice that Perl::MinimumVersion and Perl::MinimumVersion::Fast are a bit sloppy and think your code is respectively vintage 5.004 or 5.008. This irks brian, so he rolled up his sleeves and dove into the C++-fueled heart of darkness. -------------- Practical FFI with Platypus http://blogs.perl.org/users/graham_ollis/2015/01/practical-ffi-with-platypus.html Graham previously extolled the potential of FFI (Foreign Function Interface) at YAPC::NA 2014. Here he introduces FFI::Platypus, which adds the 'F' of friendliness to the mix. -------------- Managing SQL Data with Yertl http://blogs.perl.org/users/preaction/2015/01/managing-sql-data-with-yertl.html 'Yertl' suspiciously resemble the sound a strangled dba makes. It's also a new set of command-line tools to deal with database ETL operations that looks very promising. -------------- Create presentation programmatically with Presentation::Builder http://blogs.perl.org/users/mj41/2015/01/create-presentation-programmatically-with-presentationbuilder.html A new offering in the realm of slide generation. -------------- ============= Perl 6 Gathering Up Steam Again https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/2015-03-gathering-up-steam-again/ On the Perl6 horizon: quick way create hashes with objects for keys, more helpful warning messages, optimizations, and more! -------------- How to connect to the #perl6 IRC channel and try Perl 6 on-line http://perl6maven.com/how-to-use-perl6-without-installing-it -------------- ============= Videos I gave this talk about Automated Scoring Systems at MadMongers... http://plainblackguy.tumblr.com/post/108648992051/i-gave-this-talk-about-automated-scoring-systems We can only surmise tha the talk auto-gave itself a 5 stars rating. -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials What is autovivification? http://perlmaven.com/autovivification -------------- Construct the path to a file in the same directory as the current script http://perlmaven.com/path-to-file-in-the-same-directory-as-script -------------- Avoid (unwanted) bitwise operators http://perlmaven.com/avoid-unwanted-bitwise-operators -------------- ============= Weekly collections StackOverflow Perl report http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/01/clxix-stackoverflow-perl-report.html -------------- MetaCPAN Weekly Report - FFI::Platypus http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/01/cxliv-metacpan-weekly-report-ffiplatypus.html -------------- CPAN great modules released last week http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/01/xii-cpan-great-modules-released-last.html -------------- ============= You joined the Perl Weekly to get weekly e-mails about the Perl programming language and related topics. 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