From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Mar 1 23:09:46 2015 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 07:09:46 -0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #188 - The First Days of Christmas Scheduled to be in August Message-ID: <20150302070908.F2CF5C103@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/188.html This week, we have the releases of two of the big web frameworks, a new Strawberry Perl, and invitations to upcoming Hackatons both for Perl 5 and Perl 6. For the latter, the pressure is building: the August Hackaton in Switzerland is touted as the last one before the dev version of Perl 6 1.0 goes out. 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("https://www.striata.com/about-striata/career-application/africa/perl-de veloper/") -------------- Interseted in sponsored ads in the Perl Weekly? Check out ("http://perlweekly.com/sponsors.html") the details. ============= Announcements Perl and the Company Culture http://blogs.perl.org/users/shadowcat_mdk/2015/03/perl-and-the-company-culture.html Mark wants to make some noise and promote companies, big and small, that use Perl. For that, he asks for your help to corral the names of all organizations that fit the bill. -------------- Adopting in the hope to improve maintenance http://blogs.perl.org/users/graham_ollis/2015/02/adopting-in-the-hope-to-improve-maintenance.html Graham would like to provide a warm, cozy new home for a handful of modules. But, of course, this can't happen without the blessing of their original owners, so he's sending an announcement flare. -------------- Perl 6 Hackathon with Larry Wall in Switzerland http://blogs.perl.org/users/swiss_perl_workshop/2015/02/perl-6-hackathon-with-larry-wall.html Feel like celebrating Christmas in August? Then you might entertain the notion of joining this Hackaton, most probably the last one before Perl6 get officially released. -------------- Mojolicious 6.0 released: Perl real-time web framework http://blog.kraih.com/post/112170845701 A new major release of Mojolicious is out! Massive rewrites, support for things like IPv6, SOCKS5, and non-blocking name resolution, this is clearly not your grampa web framework. -------------- A big week in Oslo http://blogs.perl.org/users/damian_conway/2015/02/a-big-week-in-oslo.html Damian is going to Norway, and he's going to be a busy, busy man. Lots of talks and presentations on his plate for the days to come. -------------- Strawberry Perl 5.20.2.1 released http://blogs.perl.org/users/kmx/2015/02/strawberry-perl-52021-released.html A new version of Strawberry Perl is out. Amongst other goodies, this version comes with all the major DBI drivers -- MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL -- working out of the box. -------------- YAPC::NA::2015 Hackathons Announced http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/02/yapcna2015-hackathons-announce.html Perl 5, Perl 6, hardware, there will be hackatons for them all at YAPC::NA. If you plan to join the fun, RSVP so that the organizers know what to expect. -------------- Dancer2 0.159000 waiting for you on CPAN! http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2015/02/dancer2-0159000-waiting-for-you-on-cpan.html A new version of Dancer 2 is out! Documentation updates, lots of bug fixes, a brand new support for asynchronousity (err.. asynchronousness?) and streaming. -------------- ============= Articles Hello perldoc, productivity booster http://perltricks.com/article/155/2015/2/26/Hello-perldoc--productivity-booster Some tools help and some tools are next to indispensable. Perldoc squarely falls in the second category. David offers us here a quick review of its main use cases. -------------- Perl developers dispel doubts about the code's longevity http://www.techworld.com/careers/perl-developers-dispel-doubts-about-codes-longevity-3599357/ You know the usual question. "Is Perl dead? Dying? Looking pale? Perhaps pining for the fjords?" TechWorld went out and interviewed some of the members of the community in this latest attempt to answer the eternal question. -------------- ============= Testing The Role of Critique http://blog.twoshortplanks.com/2015/02/28/the-role-of-critique/ If a role is defining a private method that it is not using itself, Perl::Critic is wont to spuriously tut-tut at you. Or was, as Mark decided that enough was enough, and crafted a patch that takes care of that. -------------- Another note to my future self on DBIx::Class https://contourline.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/another-note-to-my-future-self-on-dbixclass/ While working on the creation of a DBIx-based test database, James realized that not everything is perfectly documented. He's jolting down the missing pieces of the puzzle here for the benefit of his future self (and us, natch). -------------- ============= Code got lib? Lieber Gott! http://techblog.babyl.ca/entry/got-lib The new release of 'got' introduced the subcommand 'got lib'. What does it do? Yanick reveals all. -------------- Configuration Station https://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/posts/configuration-station fREW plays with a new Proof::ConfigLoader, which aims at being light on the syntax overhead while allowing overriding via environment variables. -------------- IO::Socket::Timeout: socket timeout made easy http://blog.booking.com/socket-timeout-made-easy.html For most of us, just getting the web page is good enough. But for, say, Booking.com, there's also a need for speed. Damien shares with us how they tweak and interact with socket timeouts as one way to quench this thirst of velocity. -------------- Public Voting through Twitter http://blogs.perl.org/users/kivanc_yazan/2015/02/public-voting-through-twitter.html Kivan was recently involved in a charity party where voting for things like dance and songs was done via Twitter. Brilliant idea. And he came up with a script to take the humdrum off tallying the results too. -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials Combining SVG and PSGI http://perlmaven.com/combining-svg-and-psgi How to create Scalable Vector Graphics on the fly and serve it using Plack/PSGI? -------------- ============= Weekly collections CPAN great modules released last week http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/02/xvii-cpan-great-modules-released-last.html -------------- MetaCPAN weekly report - File::Serialize http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/02/cxlix-metacpan-weekly-report.html -------------- StackOverflow Perl report http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/02/clxxiv-stackoverflow-perl-report.html -------------- ============= 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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