From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Jan 31 23:13:18 2016 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 07:13:18 +0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #236 - Grants, Testing and Fighting Entropy Message-ID: <20160201071318.DF29AC005@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/236.html This week we have a few articles on testing web thingies (mocking web services, using SWAT, that kind of fun stuff), encouraging grant reports (shiny things are happening while we aren't looking), an early case of Spring cleaning fever (where entropy is fought and modules put to adoption). Oh, yes, and a modest proposal is made for a new Perl operator. Enjoy! ~ `/anick Announcements Please test www-apache/mod_perl-2.0.10_pre201601 http://dilfridge.blogspot.com/2016/01/please-test-www-apachemodperl.html Using mod_perl? If so, you might want to test the trial version of its upcoming update. -------------- ============= Articles Quality metrics for the head of the CPAN River http://neilb.org/2016/01/26/river-head-quality.html That bloke, there, in the waders, taking water samples from the might CPAN river? That's our Neil. -------------- Bit Rot Thursday http://blogs.perl.org/users/zoffix_znet/2016/01/bit-rot-thursday.html Entropy waits for no-one. Every distribution released on CPAN, if left to itself, will slowly mush away. So what one should do? Fight the inexorable advance of decay? Give up? Embrace the chaos? Zoffix discusses those many paths. -------------- 100+ Modules for Adoption! (Bit Rot Thursday) http://blogs.perl.org/users/zoffix_znet/2016/01/modules-for-adoption-bit-rot-thursday.html Zoffix is going through an early Spring cleaning. He deleted a few of his old distributions, and put a bunch (and I really mean a /bunch/) of other up for adoption. -------------- The easiest way to find the highest hash value without looping through all of them (max) http://perlmaven.com/highest-hash-value -------------- ============= Discussion The Fuse Operator - A Suggested Language Extension http://blogs.perl.org/users/martin/2016/01/the-fuse-operator---a-suggested-language-extension.html "I wish Perl had that one extra operator" is not something you hear very often. The "fuse" operator would be something for safe, non-auto-vivificating, dereferencing. I must admit, it does sounds appealing. -------------- ============= Testing Mock Testing Web Services with Mojo http://blogs.perl.org/users/chase_whitener/2016/01/mock-testing-web-services-with-mojo.html So you want to test something interacting with a web service without, y'know, doing terrible things to that web service... If we were talking about a class or a function, you'd mock it in a heart-beat. Well, the same can be done for web services, here via a Mojo-based impostor. -------------- curl + swat VS selenium http://blogs.perl.org/users/melezhik/2016/01/curl-swat-vs-selenuim.html You'd be hard-pressed to find such two wildly different test automation tools. But how do they compare for the same task? Melezhik finds out. -------------- ============= Code Quick and Dirty: Vim highlighting and tag matching for HTML and Perl's Template Toolkit http://blog.geekuni.com/2016/01/vim-tt-html-highlighting-and-tag-matching.html A quick trick for vim jockeys to be able to jump back and forth between opening and closing tags within ToolkitTemplate tags. -------------- UTF-16 and Windows CRLF, oh my http://blogs.perl.org/users/yary/2016/01/utf-16-and-windows-crlf-oh-my.html Running Perl on Windows? Dealing with UTF-16? You want to read this. Unless you're into learning things the hard way. In which case, don't read this. And stock up on headache medicine. -------------- MVC with Dancer2 and DBIC: Form Validation http://blogs.perl.org/users/sherwin_daganato/2016/01/mvc-with-dancer2-and-dbic-form-validation.html How to use HTML::FormHandler with Dancer2 for the sign-up page of your application. -------------- App::TimeTracker::Command::Category http://domm.plix.at/perl/2016_01_app_timetracker_category.html tracker, the command-line time-tracking application by domm, can now tag tasks with categories, thanks to this new plugin. -------------- IO::Iron - Towards Update to Version 3 http://blogs.perl.org/users/mikko_koivunalho/2016/01/ioiron---towards-update-to-version-3.html v3 of the web service IronMQ is coming up, and the maintainer of IO::Iron is already on deck, making sure that when the time come, he'll have all his ducks in a row. -------------- How to provide STDIN to an external executable? http://perlmaven.com/how-to-provide-stdin-to-an-external-executable -------------- ============= Grants Migrating blogs.perl.org: Second Progress Report http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/01/migrating-blogsperlorg-second-.html The migration of blogs.perl.org to the PerlBee platform is slowly making progress. We can already peer at the work done in its GitHub repository, and a wider audience test instance is supposed to become accessible soonishingly. -------------- Maintaining Perl 5: Grant Report for November 2015 http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/01/maintaining-perl-5-grant-repor-24.html Bolts tightened here, squeaky cogs oiled there. Lot of little improvements have been done by the grant elves in November. -------------- Grant Report: Test::Simple/Stream Stabilization http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/01/grant-report-testsimplestream-.html Looks like Test::More and friends are close to being upgraded to a newer engine. -------------- ============= Perl 6 Perl 6 .rotor: The King of List Manipulation http://blogs.perl.org/users/zoffix_znet/2016/01/perl-6-rotor-the-king-of-list-manipulation.html It slices, it dices, it... gets pretty funky in the last example of that article. -------------- ============= Weekly collections NICEPERL's lists http://niceperl.blogspot.com/ Great modules released last week ( http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/01/lxv-cpan-great-modules-released-last .html ); MetaCPAN weekly report ( http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/01/cxcvii-metacpan-weekly-report-import er.html ); StackOverflow Perl report ( http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/01/ccxxii-stackoverflow-perl-report.htm l ). -------------- ============= You joined the Perl Weekly to get weekly e-mails about the Perl programming language and related topics. 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