From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Mar 14 01:14:36 2016 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 08:14:36 -0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #242 - Thirty Score Subscribers, WOOHOO! Message-ID: <20160314081304.25666C572@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/242.html This week, we're celebrating our 6,000th subscriber! And in 8 weeks we'll be hitting our 250th edition. And 10 weeks after that, it's the 5th anniversary (really?) milestone that we'll reach. I don't know about you, but I'd say that all those occasions call for a momentous celebratory camel cake. Enjoy! (this edition of the PerlWeekly, that is, not the yet-to-be-baked cake) ~ `/anick Announcements Call For Grant Proposals (March 2016 Round) http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/03/call-for-grant-proposals-march-1.html The Perl Foundation is launching its round of grant proposals for March. Deadline: March 23rd. -------------- Strawberry Perl 5.22.1.3 + 5.20.3.3 released http://blogs.perl.org/users/kmx/2016/03/strawberry-perl-52213-52033-released.html Strawberries are early this season! -------------- ZipRecruiter is sponsoring the QA Hackathon http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2016/03/ziprecruiter-are-sponsoring-the-qa-hackathon.html Hot from the presses: the QA Hackaton has a new sponsor. -------------- YAPC::NA Tutorials http://www.yapcna.org/yn2016/tutorials.html A preliminary list of YAPC::NA's tutorial is now available. -------------- ============= Articles Continuous Delivery for Libraries? http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/automating-deployments/2016-013-cd-for-libraries.html While the blo entry itself is more of a blurb, it contains links to the presentation Moritz gave on the topic at the German Perl Workshop and to his book-in-progress. -------------- ============= Discussion Frameworks don't make much sense http://www.catonmat.net/blog/frameworks-dont-make-sense/ Reading this piece, the expression "Go Big, or Go Home" comes to mind. Peteris argues that frameworks are bad. What framework? _All_ of them. -------------- ============= Testing Running mixed Perl 5 and Perl 6 tests. http://blogs.perl.org/users/pawel_bbkr_pabian/2016/03/perl-6-hack-attack-mixed-perl-5-tests.html One of the oft-forgotten things about the t/ directory and 'prove' is that tests don't necessarily need to be Perl code. Here Pawel shows how one can painlessly mix and match Perl 5 and Perl 6 tests in a testsuite. -------------- ============= Code Munging lcpan text output with 'td' https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2016/03/04/lcpan-tips-015-munging-lcpan-text-output-with-td/ Even if you don't use lcpan, this is a nice entry also showcasing cli tools to manipulate and report JSON-like data. -------------- Son of MacPorts openssl versus Perl http://blogs.perl.org/users/tom_wyant/2016/03/son-of-macports-openssl-versus-perl.html A quick follow-up on Tom's original blog entry on the woes of having openssl and Perl play nice together on MacOS. -------------- No more dirty reads with MongoDB http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/2633/no-more-dirty-reads-with-mongodb/ Perhaps you are the type of conservative soul who prefers consistency over sheer performance? Rejoice, for MongoDB has a new knob to adjust its behavior in that regard. -------------- It's never too late to find a bug http://blogs.perl.org/users/book1/2016/03/its-never-too-late-to-find-a-bug.html Some bugs are easy to spot. Others can be sneaky. Blending with their surrounding, waiting patiently for years before the right circumstances present themselves. The present tale is about a bug of the latter category, which stayed dormant for over five years before resurfacing... -------------- Reviving WWW::Shorten http://perlhacks.com/2016/03/reviving-wwwshorten Last summer, WWW::Shorten was put up for adoption. And now, happy news, somebody answered the call. New releases are already trickling in. -------------- ============= Perl 6 2016.10 Enchant?! https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/2016-10-enchante/ In the new things this week in Perl 6-land: one of the good introduction tutorials to Perl 6 is now available in French and German. -------------- ============= CPAN News NICEPERL's lists http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/lxx-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.co.uk/2016/03/lxxi-cpan-great-modules-released-l ast.html ); MetaCPAN weekly report ( http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/cciii-metacpan-weekly-report.html ); StackOverflow Perl report ( http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/ccxxviii-stackoverflow-perl-report .html ). -------------- ============= Perl Maven Articles Refactoring large test suite - separating data from code http://perlmaven.com/refactoring-large-test-suite-separating-data-from-code This screencast is part of the Testing series ( http://perlmaven.com/testing ). -------------- Simple router with AngularJS http://code-maven.com/simple-router-with-angular Not Perl, but it was originally published on the Perl Maven site and if you are interested in the full course, it will be given at YAPC::NA ( http://www.yapcna.org/yn2016/tutorials.html ). -------------- ============= You joined the Perl Weekly to get weekly e-mails about the Perl programming language and related topics. 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