[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #191 - Hackathon after Hackathon

Mon Mar 23 03:34:43 PDT 2015

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Hi,

There are two Hackathons going to take place in close proximity in time,
but quite far away. One in Berlin and the other one in New York. The former
is the traditional annual QA Hackathon with a number of people flying in
from various other places of the globe, therefore they still need help with
some funding. I am happy to tell you that thanks to the growing number of
advertisers in the Perl Weekly, and thanks to the people who contribute to
the Perl Weekly via Gratipay ("https://gratipay.com/PerlWeekly/") I could
use some of that money to sponsor the QA Hackathon! (The still need some
more
("http://blogs.perl.org/users/olaf_alders/2015/03/the-perl-qa-hackathon-is-
still-looking-for-sponsors.html").)

In any case, enjoy the articles!

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Announcements

  New York City Perl Hackathon 2015
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/itcharlie/2015/03/new-york-city-perl-hackathon-2015.html

  I wish I could participate... (May 2, 2015, New York)
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Articles

  Accelerating Perl
  http://perltricks.com/article/159/2015/3/16/Accelerating-Perl

  With the Raspberry Pi and other SoC (System on a Chip) devices it is time
  for Perl to start using accelometers. There aren't a lot of CPAN modules
  doing this, but Device::LSM303DLHC handling the LSM303DLHC chip can
  provide access to the readings. Let's see what can <b>you</b> do with it?
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  DBIx::Class::Report - generate ad-hoc dbic classes from SQL
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/03/dbixclassreport---generate-ad-hoc-dbic-classes-from-sql.html

  Wouldn't it be nice if we could just take a chunk of arbitrary SQL and get
  a resultset from it? - Ovid asks and responds to himself with the release
  of DBIx::Class::Report. But when would you need it?
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  How you average numbers matters
  http://www.nu42.com/2015/03/how-you-average-numbers.html

  We all know (or should know) that computations in a computer are not exact,
  but when Sinan puts it in front of us it is still very disturbing.
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Testing

  Test::More in serious need of review, be afraid!
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/chad_exodist_granum/2015/03/testmore-in-serious-need-of-review-be-afraid.html

  Exodist is planning to release a new version of Test::More to CPAN. If that
  version breaks some a CPAN module, that CPAN module will become
  uninstallable. (Well, sort of.). Not only that. If the new version starts
  to report success when something failed then your code might be full of
  bugs while everything looks fine. In case you want to neither of this
  will happen, you can put some energy into looking at the changes and
  testing the new version.
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  The Perl QA Hackathon is still looking for Sponsors
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/olaf_alders/2015/03/the-perl-qa-hackathon-is-still-looking-for-sponsors.html

  The QA Hackathon is an excellent event and dispite its name it is not only
  about Quality Assurnce. It became a more generice event when some of the
  people maintaining the core infrastructure needed for the Perl world get
  together for some much needed face-to-face conversation. I had the luck
  participating in two of such events, and now I  had the privilage to even
  provide some funds to run the event. If you, or your company relies on
  Perl, this is a very good place to ensure the continous improvement of
  the whole ecosystem around Perl.
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  Dancer + Jasmine
  http://techblog.babyl.ca/entry/dancer-jasmine

  Absolutely awesome! Yanick had to test his Angular.js based code. So what
  did he do? He wrote a plugin for Perl Dancer. Jasmine is a
  behavior-driven development framework for testing JavaScript code. The
  new Dancer::Plugin::Test::Jasmine allows you to integrate the tests
  written in Jasmin with the test you write for your Perl-based back-end.
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  CPAN Testers Summary - January 2015 - Permanent Vacation
  http://blog.cpantesters.org/diary/195

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Code

  Loading module conditionally (and other options)
  https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/loading-module-conditionally-and-other-options/

  'use MyModule if $cond;' won't do what you might expect. So what can you
  do? (... and what <
  href="http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/2zojah/loading_modules_condit
  ionally_and_other_options/">Redditors</a> think about this.)
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  Twitter Mass Unfollower in Perl
  https://phl4nk.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/twitter-mass-unfollower-in-perl/

  Sometimes automated tests can cause you to add many unwanted twitter
  accounts following many other people. This simple Perl script helps you
  stop following everyone.
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Web

  How to Push K&L Wine Tastings
  http://www.prolificprogrammer.com/2015/03/how-to-push-k-wine-tastings.html

  How to Generate an ATOM feed for a Lazy Webmaster
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CPAN

  A Year of CPAN Uploads
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/barbie/2015/03/a-year-of-cpan-uploads.html

  There are some really crazy people out there. For example Barbie, who has
  been uploading modules to CPAN every day for more than a year now. That's
  real persistence.
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Fun

  All other languages tired of Python's shit
  https://thescienceweb.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/all-other-languages-tired-of-pythons-shit/

  New Zealand.  A recent survey of software languages has revealed that...
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Perl 5 Porters

  My perl 5.21.9
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2015/03/my-perl-5219.html

  The short story behind another development release of Perl 5.
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Perl 6

  Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2015.03
  http://rakudo.org/2015/03/21/announce-rakudo-star-release-2015-03/

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  Tiny Games with Perl 6
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/03/tiny-games-with-perl-6.html

  Rolling unicode dice with Perl 6.
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Other

  Comparing Audio files with Sense
  http://npointsolutions.blogspot.com/2015/03/comparing-audio-files-with-sense.html

  Running a radio station is not easy task. How can you make sure the
  listeners hear the music in acceptable quality? Do you sit an listen to
  every song, or can you automate it?
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Perl Maven Tutorials

  Sending HTML e-mail using Email::Stuffer
  http://perlmaven.com/sending-html-email-using-email-stuffer

  A screencast and article explaining and showing how to send e-mail with
  Perl.
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  Moo attribute predicate and clearer
  http://perlmaven.com/moo-attribute-predicate-and-clearer

  This and the article about Moo attributes with default values
  ("http://perlmaven.com/moo-attributes-with-default-values") were recently
  made available to the general public.
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  Count elements using XML::XPath
  http://perlmaven.com/count-elements-using-xml-xpath

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  Testing sessions by mocking time
  http://perlmaven.com/testing-session-mocking-time

  How can you test a system that is supposed to time-our after 100 days? Your
  can't wait a 100 days for that. What about 1 minute? Is that still too
  much?
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Weekly collections

  NICEPERL's lists
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com

  Great modules released last week
  ("http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/03/xx-cpan-great-modules-released-las
  t-week.html");<br>MetaCPAN weekly report
  ("http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/03/clii-metacpan-weekly-report-rapifs
  .html");<br>StackOverflow Perl report
  ("http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/03/clxxvii-stackoverflow-perl-report.
  html").
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Events
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  list of Perl events ("http://perlweekly.com/events.html"). Enjoy
  yourself!

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