From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Apr 5 23:09:22 2015 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 06:09:22 +0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #193 - YAPC::NA Master classes updated Message-ID: <20150406060922.8F450C0F1@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/193.html Hi there! The YAPC::NA web site now lists six Master classes ("http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/masters.html"). Check them out and register! Enjoy! Sponsors Perl Developer - Teleperformance - Grandview Heights, Ohio (Columbus) http://perlmaven.com/jobs/42320 Teleperformance is looking for talented Perl developers who are eager to join our team (10 developers).? We are a close-knit development group who live and breathe Perl and the open source philosophy.? We are located in Grandview Heights, Ohio, with easy access to the downtown area. -------------- InsideSales.com - Pass our "Perl Challenge" & Win a $100 Amazon Gift Card http://betago.is.com/dl.aspx?cid=5669&pv_url=https://github.com/jjhart/insidesales_challenge?5669_rm_id=100.6473429.7 Our yummy Perl codebase handles millions of emails in production each week! We're growing like crazy, doubling in revenue and size annually. We want you to join our team in Utah. Pass our "Perl Challenge" to win a $100 Amazon gift card and an interview. Hires will receive a sizable signing bonus. -------------- Work for Uniregistry, building and maintaining Internet new Top Level Domains http://uniregistry.link/careers Use Moose, DBIx::Class, Catalyst, AnyEvent and work in an dream office in Newport Beach office in California to ?build and maintain our registry platform and services for Internet new Top Level Domains (nTLDs). Send your CV to jobs at uniregistry.link -------------- ============= Articles Saving Vertical Space http://tinypig2.blogspot.com/2015/04/saving-vertical-space.html An example of refactoring a long function to fit on one screen. -------------- Coding Guidelines & Best Practices - Perl http://sheeju.github.io/2015/03/coding-guidelines-perl.html Discussing issues such as ViMconfig, Comments, Naming Conventions, Logging, Code Formatting. Also discussed at Reddit ("http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/316fvn/coding_guidelines_best_pra ctices_perl_by_sheeju/"). -------------- ============= Testing Uncommon OS Platforms Wanted for Testing http://blog.cpantesters.org/diary/197 The CPAN Testers would like to see more testing being done on the less common platforms. If you happen to have access to operating systems that are not on the top of the OS/Perl matrix ("http://stats.cpantesters.org/osmatrix-month.html"). -------------- Testing my API changes with Perl http://varlogrant.blogspot.com/2015/03/testing-my-api-changes-with-perl.html A test script using LWP::UserAgent to access a web page, and JSON to convert the returned JSON string to a Perl data structure. -------------- Foswiki 1.2.0 Beta 1 Ready for Testing! http://blog.foswiki.org/foswiki-1-2-0-beta-1-ready-for-testing/ -------------- ============= CPAN How to add 'provides' metadata via Makefile.PL http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/2419/how-to-add-provides-metadata-via-makefile-pl/ Though I think in most cases this should happen automatically, in the rare cases when you need to fiddle with the names listed in the META files, this explanation can be useful -------------- CPAN pull requests in March 2015 http://neilb.org/2015/04/03/prc-march-stats.html The number of pull requests is slightly up since February -------------- ============= Grants April 1 - Act http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/04/april-1---act.html Act is the web application used to manage most of the Perl conference, workshops, and even the Hackathons. Theo reports about the TPF grant he received to modernize the application. -------------- ============= Perl 6 Early Perl 6 http://g14n.info/2015/03/early-perl6/ I am not sure about the title. The article shows how to compile and install MoarVM and Rakudo Star. -------------- WenZPerl Donate 10,000 EUR to new Perl 6 Core Development Fund http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/04/wenzperl-donate-10000-eur-to-n.html WenZPerl is the company of Elizabeth Mattijsen and Wendy van Dijk who do an awful lot for Perl. Both code wise and promotion wise. Now they even given their money. (.. and this is not even the first time!) -------------- ============= Weekly collections NICEPERL's lists http://niceperl.blogspot.com/ Great modules released last week ("http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/04/xxii-cpan-great-modules-released-l ast.html");
MetaCPAN weekly report ("http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/04/cliv-metacpan-weekly-report-anyeve ntssh2.html");
StackOverflow Perl report ("http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/04/clxxix-stackoverflow-perl-report.h tml"). -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials Methods, Functions and Subroutines in Perl and what is $self ? http://perlmaven.com/methods-functions-and-subroutines-in-perl What is the difference between a method and a function in Perl? What is in $self ? And what is $me ? -------------- Getting started with Net::Server - building an echo server http://perlmaven.com/getting-started-with-net-server -------------- Inheritance and Method Modifiers in Moo http://perlmaven.com/inheritance-and-method-modifiers-in-moo -------------- How to calculate factorial in Perl - n! http://perlmaven.com/factorial-in-perl -------------- Add some acceptance tests using search.cpan.org http://perlmaven.com/add-some-acceptance-tests A screencast from the series about the search.cpan.org cloning project. -------------- ============= Events YAPC::Russia 2015 http://event.yapcrussia.org/yr2015/ 16-17 May 2015, Moscow, Russia -------------- 3 Awesome Perl Events in NYC this Spring/Summer http://perltricks.com/article/166/2015/3/31/3-Awesome-Perl-Events-in-NYC-this-Spring-Summer Quack & Hack NYC, April 4th; NYC Perl Hackathon, May 2nd; Mojoconf, June 4th-6th -------------- Come to MojoConf and tell us something cool! http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2015/04/come-to-mojoconf-and-tell-us-something-cool.html MojoConf will be held in New York City (June 4th-6th). -------------- YAPC::Brasil 2015 - Sep 18-20 - Taubat? - SP http://blogs.perl.org/users/frederico_recsky/2015/04/yapcbr-2015---sep-18-20.html -------------- YAPC::EU - CFP Deadline on June 30 http://blogs.perl.org/users/yapceu/2015/04/cfp-deadline-on-june-30.html -------------- Perl::Dancer Conference 2015 http://lists.preshweb.co.uk/pipermail/dancer-users/2015-April/004478.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? Join us free of charge. http://perlweekly.com/ (C) Copyright Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/ The articles are copyright the respective authors. You can freely redistribute this message if you keep the whole message intact, including the Copyright notice and this text. If you don't want to receive mails any more you can unsubscribe here: http://perlweekly.com/unsubscribe.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Perlweekly mailing list Perlweekly at perlweekly.com http://mail.perlweekly.com/mailman/listinfo/perlweekly