From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Feb 8 23:00:28 2015 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 07:00:28 -0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #185 - Interviews with RJBS and TimToady Message-ID: <20150209065956.3399AC027@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/185.html Hi, During FOSDEM Miyagawa has conducted interviews with Ricardo Signes (RJBS), the release manager of Perl 5 (also known as the Pumpkin of Perl 5), and Larry Wall (TimToady), the creator of Perl. Both interviews are available in the Rebuild podcast as downloadable mp3 files. If you don't have time during the day, you could download the files and listen to them during your commute. Enjoy! Articles Time::Moment can save time http://perltricks.com/article/148/2015/2/2/Time--Moment-can-save-time DateTime is perfect, but huge and slow. Time::Moment has certain limitations, but it small and blazing fast. -------------- Building libexpat and XML::Parser on Windows 8.1 64 bit using Visual Studio 2013 http://blog.nu42.com/2015/02/building-libexpat-and-xmlparser-on.html One of the hard things when building a Perl distribution is including various external libraries. For example libexpat and libgd. This is what Sinan faced the week. -------------- ============= Interviews Have The Appropriate Amount Of Fun (Larry Wall) http://rebuild.fm/78/ Tatsuhiko Miyagawa interviewed Larry Wall. (podcast, mp3) -------------- Perl Is Hard To Talk About (rjbs) http://rebuild.fm/77/ Tatsuhiko Miyagawa interviewed Ricardo Signes. (podcast, mp3) -------------- ============= Code Sometimes, it really IS a bug in Perl http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/2402/sometimes-it-really-is-a-bug-in-perl/ Watch literal strings ("Hello world") DISAPPEAR and become undefined -------------- ============= Web Dancer2 - Getting Started http://dj.id.au/ 20 min screencast by the Perl DJ -------------- ============= CPAN What's new on CPAN - January 2015 http://perltricks.com/article/149/2015/2/6/What-s-new-on-CPAN---January-2015 The already tradition monthly report of David listing a selected list of newly uploaded CPAN modules. -------------- Moo 2.0 http://blogs.perl.org/users/graham_knop/2015/02/moo-20.html The next stable release of Moo will be version 2.0, and will include some incompatible changes. Please, go and test your Moo-using code now! -------------- ============= Grants Maintaing Perl 5: Grant Report for December 2014 http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/02/maintaing-perl-5-grant-report-1.html -------------- ============= Perl 6 Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2015.01 http://rakudo.org/2015/02/07/announce-rakudo-star-release-2015-01/ -------------- Introduction to Perl 6: arrays (screencast) http://perl6maven.com/introduction-to-perl6-screencast-arrays -------------- Rakudo To-Do List https://justrakudoit.wordpress.com/2015/02/02/rakudo-to-do-list/ -------------- A little thing to love about Perl 6 (and COBOL) http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/02/a-little-thing-to-love-about-perl-6-and-cobol.html The article shows the result of the following expression: 1/(.1 + .2 - .3) and why is not what you expect. -------------- ============= Other Code Maven http://code-maven.com/ Yours truly has opened a new playground for himself experimenting with Node.js (JavaScript), Flask (Python), and Ruby. (For now) -------------- ============= Weekly collections (xiv) CPAN great modules released last week http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/02/xiv-cpan-great-modules-released-last.html -------------- (cxlvi) metacpan weekly report - MongoDB http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/02/cxlvi-metacpan-weekly-report-mongodb.html -------------- (clxxi) stackoverflow perl report http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/02/clxxi-stackoverflow-perl-report.html -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials How to create an Excel file with Perl? http://perlmaven.com/create-an-excel-file-with-perl -------------- How to insert an array into another array in Perl? http://perlmaven.com/how-to-insert-an-array-into-another-array-in-perl -------------- Can't locate object method "..." via package "1" (perhaps you forgot to load "1"?) http://perlmaven.com/cant-locate-object-method-via-package-1 A lovely error in Perl, but where does package 1 come from? And what happens when it is package 2 ? Or 3 ? -------------- How I learn English http://perlmaven.com/how-i-learn-english A guest post on the Perl Maven site with some advice how to improve your language skills -------------- ============= Events DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop 2015 - Call for Speakers! http://blogs.perl.org/users/awwaiid_brock_wilcox/2015/02/dc-baltimore-perl-workshop-2015---call-for-speakers.html The workshop will be held on Saturday April 11 2015 in Silver Spring, MD. -------------- Website, Sponsorship and the Walls http://blogs.perl.org/users/yapceu/2015/02/website-sponsorship-and-the-walls.html The website for the upcoming YAPC Europe in Granada was launched. -------------- ============= Event reports Perl at Fosdem: thanks! https://nxadm.wordpress.com/2015/02/02/perlfosdem-thanks/ -------------- ============= 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. 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