From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Feb 14 21:41:55 2016
From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo)
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 05:41:55 +0000
Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #238 - The QA Hackathon is looking for
sponsorship
Message-ID: <20160215054155.71CF4C18A@s8.hostlocal.com>
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http://perlweekly.com/archive/238.html
The Perl QA Hackathon brings together the lead developers for the Perl
toolchain.
It's going to be in the UK this year. It's funded through sponsorship, so
why not
see if your employer can support it. Every little helps!
How do you think authors and related users should be acknowledged when
looking
at modules on MetaCPAN? This topic generated a fair bit of discussion this
week.
Neil
Events
Announcing the Perl QA Hackathon 2016
http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2016/02/announcing-the-perl-qa-hackathon-2016.html
The announcement for this year's QA Hackathon, which is being held in Rugby
(in the UK), from Thursday 21st April through Sunday 24th April.
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YAPC::NA::2016 Call for Speakers
http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/yapcna2016-call-for-speakers.html
The YAPC::NA::2016 call for speakers is now open! There must be something
you could talk about: Perl 5, Perl 6, the transition between the
two (either way!), some other programming language, or some other topic
you think may be of interest to programmers.
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YAPC::NA::2016 Call for Master Classes
http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/yapcna2016-call-for-master-cla.html
YAPC::NA are looking for people to give master classes before and after
this year's YAPC::NA.
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CPAN News
NICEPERL's lists
http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/02/lxvii-cpan-great-modules-released-last.html
Miguel Prz (NICEPERL ( https://metacpan.org/author/NICEPERL ))'s regular
lists: Great modules released last week (
http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/02/lxvii-cpan-great-modules-released-la
st.html ); MetaCPAN weekly report (
http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/02/cxcix-metacpan-weekly-report.html );
StackOverflow Perl report (
http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/02/ccxxiv-stackoverflow-perl-report.htm
l ).
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What's new on CPAN - January 2015
http://perltricks.com/article/213/2016/2/10/What-s-new-on-CPAN---January-2015
David's selection of new modules released to CPAN in January. He's decided
not to continue with his "module of the month", considering it an
experiment that has run its course. One worth looking at is Importer (
https://metacpan.org/pod/Importer ).
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Using lcpan to index your DarkPAN
https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/using-lcpan-to-index-your-darkpan/
Perlancar describes the lcpan ( https://metacpan.org/pod/lcpan ) tool,
which you can use to manage your own CPAN mirror. There's going to be a
series of daily tips on lcpan usage: here (
https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2016/02/14/lcpan-tips-001-doc/ )'s the
first.
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Perl hacking
Test your Git wrapper against 500 versions of Git
http://blogs.perl.org/users/book/2016/02/test-your-git-wrapper-against-500-versions-of-git.html
Philippe takes us through all the different versions of Git that he's
tested Git::Repository ( https://metacpan.org/pod/Git::Repository )
against, and shares the scripts he's written to help with that.
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Programming Quadcopters, Part I
http://www.wumpus-cave.net/2016/02/12/programming-quadcopters-part-i/
A video of Timm's talk to Madison Perl Mongers about programming
quadcopters in Perl.
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Simplest way of serving local files over HTTP?
http://blogs.perl.org/users/alex_muntada/2016/02/simplest-way-of-serving-local-files-over-http.html
Alex wondered what's the easiest way to serve up files using a Perl 5
module? Several people have chipped in so far in the comments, but I'm
sure more of you won't be able to resist.
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Perl 5
P5P Mailing List Summary: February 2nd-7th
http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2016/02/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-february-2nd-7th.html
As Chester discovers his son Danny has been sleeping with Annie and
everyone awaits the kidnappers' demands for Jessica's release, the
governor urges Burt to disassociate himself from his family.
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Windows DLL Relocation and Perl
http://www.activestate.com/blog/2016/02/windows-dll-relocation-and-perl
Andy describes a bug found in the way Perl builds DLL files on Windows when
compiling with GCC, and how it was fixed.
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Run Perl::Tidy to beautify the code
http://perlmaven.com/run-perl-tidy-to-beautify-the-code
Gabor shows how you can use Perl::Tidy (
https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Tidy ) to ensure your code always
followings your layout preferences, even if some of it was written by
someone else.
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Use Path::Tiny instead of home-made ReadFile and WriteFile
http://perlmaven.com/use-path-tiny-instead-of-readfile-and-writefile
When refactoring tests for a module, Gabor noticed functions for reading
and writing files. He shows how you can use Path::Tiny (
https://metacpan.org/pod/Path::Tiny ) for this, and also mentions
File::Slurp ( https://metacpan.org/pod/File::Slurp ), which is my go-to
module for those tasks these days.
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Perl-HowTo.de moved to GitHub Pages
http://perl-howto.github.io/2016/02/perl-howto-moved-to-github.html
I can't really tell you much beyond the title, because it's written in
German.
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MetaCPAN and authors
the "credit the last uploader" problem
https://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/2096
When you look at a module or dist on MetaCPAN or search.cpan.org, they both
show the last person who released it. Rik points out that this isn't
always the most appropriate person to show, and suggests that the
owner of the distribution should be displayed. He also opened a
github issue ( https://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-web/issues/1643 ) for
MetaCPAN, specifically about highlighting when a module has
ADOPTME
, HANDOFF
, or NEEDHELP
.
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It takes a community to raise a CPAN module
http://neilb.org/2016/02/13/it-takes-a-community.html
This was my response to Rik's post. I think that rather than show just one
person, we should show everyone who's done a release, in the order of
whose released most recently.
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Credit the first or last uploader on meta::cpan?
http://wollmers-perl.blogspot.co.at/2016/02/credit-first-or-last-uploader-on.html
This was Helmut's response to Rik's post. He thinks that everyone with
upload permissions should be displayed, which is slightly different from
my proposal.
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Perl 6
A few words on Perl 6 versioning and compatibility
https://6guts.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/a-few-words-on-perl-6-versioning-and-compatibility/
Jonathan outlines his Perl 6 will be versioned, including the language
definition, the Rakudo compiler, and MoarVM.
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From Regular Expressions to Grammars: Pt. 2
http://theperlfisher.blogspot.ro/2016/02/from-regular-expressions-to-grammars-pt_13.html
Jeff continues his series on Perl 6 regular expressions and grammars, which
has so far been about the former.
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Perl6 module namespace
http://blogs.perl.org/users/enkidu/2016/02/perl6-module-namespace.html
Enkidu bemoans the fact that lots of Perl 6 modules are being created with
top-level names, such as Chess
, and not being put in
appropriate namespaces, such as Games::Chess
.
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Announce: Mac OS X Installer for release 2016.01
http://rakudo.org/2016/02/12/announce-mac-os-x-installer-for-release-2016-01/
A MacOSX installer for the latest Perl 6 Rakudo star release is now
available.
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Text, Grammar, Tree - the 3
http://blogs.perl.org/users/yary/2016/02/text-grammar-tree--the-3.html
Yary had been thinking about writing a reversible grammar, so you could
feed it a parse tree and it would generate the original text (that had
produced the parse tree). Raiph pointed out in the comments that Jonathan
Worthington has a proof of concept already.
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Grants
Grant Proposal: RPerl User Documentation, Part 2
http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/grant-proposal-rperl-user-docu-1.html
Will Braswell has applied for a second grant: $1600 to continue work on the
Learning RPerl user tutorial. Add your comments if you agree or disagree
with this proposal being funded.
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Not Perl
How To Grow a Development Team ... Hotel California Style!
http://blog.geekuni.com/2016/01/how-to-grow-a-development-team.html
Andrew shares his tips for minimising churn while growing a development
team.
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Kill Your Dependencies
http://www.mikeperham.com/2016/02/09/kill-your-dependencies/
Mike Perham urges Ruby developers to look to their dependencies, and trim
them down to only those really needed. As he notes, this is an issue for
all programming languages.
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10 golden rules for becoming a better programmer
http://www.codeshare.co.uk/blog/10-golden-rules-for-becoming-a-better-programmer/
Paul Seal's tips on being a better programmer. What would you add to his
list?
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5 keys to project success on GitHub
https://opensource.com/business/16/1/five-keys-project-success-github
Michael Glukhovsky, co-founder of RethinkDB, shares his tips
for how to make your project successful on GitHub. In his words, "it's
all about engaging the community".
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