[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #184 - Larry gave his talk at FOSDEM
Gabor Szabo
gabor at szabgab.com
Sun Feb 1 23:04:28 PST 2015
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Hi,
There was lots of buzz around FOSDEM this last week, but not many videos or
blog posts to share with you yet. Get blogging, those of you who went!
More than 200 people have received their second assignment in the CPAN Pull
Request Challenge, and plenty are still working on January's. Some people
have dropped out, but others have signed up to start in February. As well
as pull requests, lots of blogging going on around it.
Editor #3, Neil
CPAN News
NICEPERL's lists
http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/vii-cpan-great-modules-released-last.html
Miguel Prz (NICEPERL ("https://metacpan.org/author/NICEPERL"))'s regular
lists: Great modules released last week
("http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/xiii-cpan-great-modules-released
-last.html"); MetaCPAN weekly report
("http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/cxlv-metacpan-weekly-report-ffip
latypus.html"); StackOverflow Perl report
("http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/clxx-stackoverflow-perl-report.h
tml").
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CPAN Testers monthly report for December
http://blog.cpantesters.org/diary/194
Barbie's monthly round-up of news related to CPAN Testers, which includes
plans for the QA hackathon and beyond.
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Nestoria's module of the month for January: Test::Deep
http://devblog.nestoria.com/post/109293093633/module-of-the-month-january-2015-test-deep
This month Nestoria tip their hat, and their wallet, to RJBS
("https://metacpan.org/author/RJBS") for Test::Deep
("https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Deep").
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Perl blogging
Shock and Terror - Perl IS a readable language
http://programming.tudorconstantin.com/2015/01/shock-and-terror-perl-is-readable.html
Another love-letter to Perl from Tudor, following his previous Perl Already
Won
("http://programming.tudorconstantin.com/2015/01/perl-already-won.html").
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My Perly January
http://martian.org/karen/2015/01/31/my-perly-janauary/
Various people are restarting their Ironman blogging this year; Karen has
set herself a goal of blogging about Perl at least once a month, and this
is her first. TL;DR: she's busy, and gets a lot of email to deal with!
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Hacking and blogging
Command Line Project Manager (clpm)
http://blogs.perl.org/users/tinypig/2015/01/command-line-project-manager-clpm-v101-released.html
David (aka tinypig) announced script for managing files. Old-timers are
probably reading clpm as <code>comp.lang.perl.modules</code> or
<code>misc</code>.
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Cookieless Sessions - Automatically Login Your Users
http://openbedrock.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/cookieless-sessions-automatically-login.html
Rob shows how you can create one-time user session tokens in Bedrock
("http://twiki.openbedrock.net/twiki/bin/view/Bedrock"), for example when
someone has forgotten their password.
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What's wrong with Getopt::Long?
https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/pericmd-003-whats-wrong-with-getoptlong/
Perlancar has started blogging on his own site, and has startd with a
series handling command-line arguments. Read part 2
("https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2015/02/02/pericmd-004-whats-wrong-with
-getoptlong-2/") after this first part on Getopt::Long
("https://metacpan.org/pod/Getopt::Long").
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Misc
A survey of table rendering packages
http://blogs.perl.org/users/ron_savage/2015/01/a-survey-of-table-rendering-packages.html
Ron is trying to build up a list of all 'table rendering packages'. Please
let him know if he's missed any. He needs them for the <code>SEE
ALSO</code> section of his new Text::Table::Manifold
("https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::Table::Manifold") module.
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Perl 6
a perl5 to perl6 translator - update
http://blogs.perl.org/users/flavio_s_glock/2015/01/a-perl5-to-perl6-translator---update.html
An update from Flávio on perlito, a perl5 to perl6 compiler.
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Fosdem 2015: It's Christmas!
http://blogs.perl.org/users/shadowcat_mdk/2015/02/fosdem-2015-its-christmas.html
Mark's notes after attending Larry Wall's talk at FOSDEM. Apparently the
videos of talks will go online soon, presumably at video.fosdem.org
("http://video.fosdem.org").
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Gotanda lands
https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/2015-04-gotanda-lands/
The latest news from Perl 6 (apart from, you know, that talk). MoraVM got
20% faster,
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Perl 6 for mere mortals
http://www.slideshare.net/Ovid/perl-6-for-mere-mortals
Ovid shared the slides for his FOSDEM talk ahead of time.
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Pull Quest Challenge
Choroba's report for January
http://blogs.perl.org/users/e_choroba/2015/02/pull-request-challenge-january.html
Choroba describes his efforts with Net::HTTP::Spore
("https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::HTTP::Spore"). Not everyone who got a
dzil-based dist was happy, but Choroba didn't have any problem.
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My CPAN Pull Request Challenge for January: Fuse
http://onionstand.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/my-cpan-pull-request-challenge-for.html
Garu describes his thoughts and process approaching Fuse
("https://metacpan.org/pod/Fuse"), his assignment for January, resulting
in 4 pull requests.
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MVUET's notes on SOAP-Lite
http://cpanpr.tumblr.com/post/109326154178/january-soap-lite
Maxim gives a primer on SOAP and SOAP-Lite
("https://metacpan.org/release/SOAP-Lite" class="distribution"), the
distribution he got for January.
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Lance Brown's notes on String::Random
http://perl.bearcircle.net/2015/01/january-cpan-pull-request-challenge.html
Lance shares his work on String::Random
("https://metacpan.org/pod/String::Random"): cleaning up the output of
<code>perlcritic -1</code> and extending the module so users can provide
their own random number generator.
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CPAN Pull Requests in January
http://neilb.org/2015/02/02/monthly-cpan-pr-graph.html
A first quick analysis on the impact of the Pull Request challenge. In
short, a the most CPAN-related pull requests ever, by a comfortable
margin.
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The meaning of MetaCPAN favorites
http://neilb.org/2015/01/29/metacpan-favorites.html
Some ruminating on what MetaCPAN's favorites mean, some statistics on how
they've been bestowed to date, and how they're being factoring into the
scoring of dists for the Pull Request Challenge.
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Tools
Moving CPAN RT tickets to Github, now improved
http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/2397/moving-cpan-rt-tickets-to-github-now-improved/
A while back David presented a way to migrate tickets from RT to github
issues. Here he describes a more complete solution, which is available on
github ("https://github.com/dagolden/zzz-rt-to-github").
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Docker: first impressions
https://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/posts/docker-first-impressions/
Frew shares his experiences and thoughts using Docker for deployment,
having used it for testing for nearly a year. I've no experience with
Docker, so he could be full of shit: you'll just have to decide for
yourself.
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Critical hit
http://blog.twoshortplanks.com/2015/01/27/critical-hit/
Jeff Thalhammer gave a talk on Perl::Critic
("https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Critic") to Albany Perl Mongers. Here
Mark shares what he took away from the talk, the biggest win of which was
learning about using the <code>only</code> option in a
<code>.perlcriticrc</code> file.
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Language
Comparing booleans in Perl
http://blog.geekuni.com/2015/02/comparing-booleans-in-perl.html
Andrew shows two of the ways you might compare the boolean
true-or-false'ness of two scalars in Perl. Hopefully most of the time
readability would win out :-)
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Grants
Perl::Lint Bug Fixes and New Policies
http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/02/perllint-bug-fixes-and-new-pol.html
An update on the Perl::Lint ("https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Lint")
project, which was funded in early 2014
("http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/02/perllint-bug-fixes-and-new-pol.h
tml").
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The Ado web framework wasn't funded
http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/01/january-2015-grant-votes.html
Two weeks ago we linked to the proposal for the Ado web framework. It
wasn't funded, primarily because there's already a lot of choice in Perl
web frameworks, so it wasn't clear this was the best use of the funds
($4500 was requested).
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Perl Maven Tutorials
Reading from a file in scalar and list context
http://perlmaven.com/reading-from-a-file-in-scalar-and-list-context
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Conferences and Meetups
Sydney.PM February meetup
http://blogs.perl.org/users/dean/2015/01/sydney-pm-february-2015.html
Sydney.PM are having a tech talk session on Tuesday 10th February, from 6
to 9:30pm.
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The Swiss Perl workshop 2015
http://blogs.perl.org/users/swiss_perl_workshop/2015/01/swiss-perl-workshop-2015.html
The Swiss Perl Workshop will be held in Olten on Friday 28th and Saturday
29th August 2015.
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Other Perl events
http://perlweekly.com/events.html
Lots of other Perl workshops and coneference are now listed
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