[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #237 - CPAN Weekly

Sun Feb 7 23:25:06 PST 2016

Perl Weekly 

http://perlweekly.com/

You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer.
http://perlweekly.com/archive/237.html

Hi there!

I hope you've enjoyed your weekend. Rested enough to tackle the next week.

I am personally very excited, because I am going to run a seminar on
testing with plenty of hands-on exercises using the real code-base of the
client. This is a format I enjoy even more than using my own home-made
exercises, because this ties in directly to their pain points.

In other news: there is a new weekly in town!

Enjoy your week and your weeklies!

Announcements

  Rakudo Star Release 2016.01
  http://rakudo.org/2016/02/03/announce-rakudo-star-release-2016-01/

  As you might know Rakudo is 'just' the Perl 6 compiler and Rakudo Star is
  the name of the distribution that includes the compiler, documentation,
  and a bunch of additional modules. This is the first such release since
  Perl 6 ( http://perl6.org/ ) was officially released. It also comes with
  a Windows MSI Installers (
  http://rakudo.org/2016/02/04/announce-windows-msi-installers-for-release-
  2016-01/ ).
  --------------

  CPAN Weekly: one module per week, in your inbox
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2016/02/cpan-weekly-one-module-per-week-in-your-inbox.html

  It seems Neil does not have enough fun editing the Perl Weekly once every 3
  weeks or so. Nor does he have enough on his plate running the CPAN Pull
  Request Challenge ( http://neilb.org/2015/12/30/cpan-prc-2016.html ) for
  a second time, and being in the river cleaning business (
  http://neilb.org/2015/04/20/river-of-cpan.html ) up to his neck. Now he
  also wants to run his own weekly newsletter called CPAN Weekly (
  http://cpan-weekly.org/ ) giving you one CPAN module every week. I can
  only guess that he is looking for more ways to procrastinate... Good
  luck!
  --------------

=============

Articles

  My Github dashboard of neglect
  http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/2613/my-github-dashboard-of-neglect/

  It is very frustrating when you submit a pull-request and noone responds to
  it for a year. It is also very embarrassing when you realize you were the
  one who did not respond to a pull-request. Now, with the help of a little
  Perl script written by David you can see the whole list of repos where
  there are pull-requests waiting for your attention.
  --------------

  A parallel MongoDB client with Perl and fork
  http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/2602/a-parallel-mongodb-client-with-perl-and-fork/

  Connect to MongoDB; fork; reconnect in each child; do your job.
  --------------

=============

Testing

  Last call for review of Test-Builder using Test2 (Formerly Test-Stream).
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/chad_exodist_granum/2016/02/last-call-for-review-of-test-builder-using-test2-formerly-test-stream.html

  'It seems that declaring something done is the best way to find out ways in
  which it is not actually done.'
  --------------

=============

Code

  Deserialization in Perl v5.8
  http://www.agarri.fr/kom/archives/2016/02/06/deserialization_in_perl_v5_8/index.html

  It is interesting to see how to exploit a bug in an ancient version of
  perl, though I wonder, if the fix isn't available by just upgrading perl?
  See also Reddit (
  https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/44mgu6/exploiting_deserialization_
  in_perl_v58_from/ ). Though given the fact that the vulnerable code that
  does not use strict or warnings, I am not surprised the author uses such
  an old version of Perl.
  --------------

=============

Web

  Get an in-browser remote desktop with Mojolicious and noVNC
  http://perltricks.com/article/212/2016/2/2/Get-an-in-browser-remote-desktop-with-Mojolicious-and-noVNC

  How to play Minesweeper on your home computer while you are at work?
  --------------

  Foswiki 2.1 has been released
  http://blog.foswiki.org/foswiki-2-1-released/

  --------------

=============

Interview

  Hacker Public Radio Interviews Perl Devs @FOSDEM
  http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1959#Perl

  --------------

=============

Grants

  Ian Hague Perl 6 Grant Application: JavaScript backend for Rakudo
  http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/ian-hague-perl-6-grant-applica.html

  Would you like to be able to run Perl 6 in a web browser near you? (sort
  of). Would you like The Perl Foundation to support it financially.
  --------------

  Perl 5 Grant Application: QA Hackathon Travel
  http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/perl-5-grant-application-qa-ha.html

  The annual grant request of Ricardo Signes, the Pumpkin to attend the QA
  Hackathon.
  --------------

  Perl 6 Release Goals: Final Grant Report
  http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/perl-6-release-goals-final-gra.html

  --------------

=============

Core Perl 5

  Perl 5 Porters Mailing List Summary: January 25th - February 1st
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2016/02/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-january-25th---february-1st.html

  This is the place of the summary of the summary.
  --------------

  Memory savings with cperl and AvSTATIC
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/rurban/2016/02/memory-savings-with-cperl-and-avstatic.html

  'B::C and cperl has now proper support for copy-on-grow (COG) and
  copy-on-write (COW) arrays.'
  --------------

=============

Perl 6

  Atom Perl6 editor tools
  https://github.com/azawawi/atom-perl6-editor-tools

  Tooling is critical for the success of a programming language. Having at
  least one great IDE supporting the language is very important. Ahmad, who
  was once one of the key contributors to the Padre (
  http://padre.perlide.org/ ) project and who later went on and created
  Farabi ( https://metacpan.org/release/Farabi ), has now written a plugin
  for the Atom editor ( https://atom.io/ ) to support Perl 6.
  --------------

  Christmas announcement, two.
  https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/christmas-announcement-two/

  Thanking the companies that supported the Rakudo Perl 6 effort.
  --------------

  Exploring Perl 6: Signatures, Part 2
  http://friedo.com/blog/2016/02/exploring-perl-6-signatures-part-2

  Class constraints with and without a where block. Promising the type of the
  returned value. Introspection: How to find out about the constraints
  during run-time.
  --------------

  Hacking on Perl 6 (Rakudo and Roast)
  http://blog.urth.org/2016/02/07/hacking-on-perl-6-rakudo-and-roast/

  It seems fixing a bug in Rakudo, the compiler of Perl 6, is actually fun.
  --------------

  IO::Glob for Perl 6
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/sterling_hanenkamp/2016/02/ioglob-for-perl-6.html

  --------------

=============

Weekly collections

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

  Great modules released last week (
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/02/lxvi-cpan-great-modules-released-las
  t.html );
  MetaCPAN weekly report (
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/02/cxcviii-metacpan-weekly-report.html
  );
  StackOverflow Perl report (
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/02/ccxxiii-stackoverflow-perl-report.ht
  ml ).
  --------------

=============

Perl Maven Articles

  Refactor the tests to use Test::More
  http://perlmaven.com/refactoring-tests-to-use-test-more

  As part of becomming a co-maintainer of Pod::Tree (
  http://perlmaven.com/becoming-a-co-maintainer ) I have written a series
  of articles describing the process and published them for the Perl Maven
  Pro subscribers. It is time to re-publish them to the general public.
  --------------

  Check test coverage - add compile tests
  http://perlmaven.com/check-test-coverage-add-compile-tests

  --------------

=============

Event reports

  FOSDEM 2016
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/shadowcat_mdk/2016/02/fosdem-2016.html

  --------------

  FOSDEM 2016
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/steve_mynott/2016/02/fosdem-2016.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: <http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/kochi-pm/attachments/20160208/3801f09f/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
Perlweekly mailing list
Perlweekly at perlweekly.com
http://mail.perlweekly.com/mailman/listinfo/perlweekly