From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Nov 26 23:04:02 2017 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 07:04:02 -0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #331 - The London Perl Workshop Message-ID: <20171127070304.7BF76C143@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/331.html The London Perl Workshop was on Saturday, and we've already had four blog posts about it. You'll pick up on a theme: it was a great community event. There are a lot more TPCiA videos online now, and the Perl 6 weekly news has links to those about Perl 6. Neil -- Your editor: Neil Bowers. CPAN News NICEPERL's lists http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2017/11/clx-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/2017/11/clx-cpan-great-modules-released-last .html ); MetaCPAN weekly report ( http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2017/11/ccxcii-metacpan-weekly-report-pegex. html ); StackOverflow Perl report ( http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2017/11/cccxvi-stackoverflow-perl-report.htm l ). -------------- Happy Taskgiving http://techblog.babyl.ca/entry/happy-taskgiving Yanick has released some new commands for his tool for TaskWarrior ( https://taskwarrior.org ). -------------- ============= Perl 5 P5P Mailing List Summary: November 13th to 20th http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2017/11/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-november-13th-20th.html The weekly round-up of P5P notes, which includes links to a lot of grant updates from Dave and Zefram. -------------- Perl5 as a first-class script engine in Java http://blogs.perl.org/users/flavio_s_glock/2017/11/perl5-as-a-first-class-script-engine-in-java.html An update from Fl?vio on Perlito ( https://github.com/fglock/Perlito ), an implementation of Perl 5 that runs in the JVM. You can now run Perl scripts from inside a Java application. -------------- ============= Rakudo Test All The Things http://theperlfisher.blogspot.com/2017/11/test-all-things.html Jeff takes us through testing in Perl 6. -------------- 2017.47 More TPCiA Videos https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2017/11/20/2017-47-more-tpcia-videos/ The weekly roundup of Rakudo news, with links to a videos for Perl 6 talks from TPCiA. -------------- A unified and improved Supply concurrency model https://6guts.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/a-unified-and-improved-supply-concurrency-model/ Jonathan describes his recent work to improve the concurrency features provided by Supply. -------------- ============= London Perl Workshop London Perl Workshop is Amazing http://www.markkeating.me.uk/2017/11/26/london-perl-workshop-is-amazing-i-didnt-organise-that-shit/ It was great seeing Mark at LPW, throughly enjoying being an attendee, and that shines through in this post as well. -------------- Lance Wicks's report on LPW http://lancewicks.com/2017/11/26/london-perl-workshop-2017-lpw2017/ Lance gave a tutorial on the Bailador web framework for Perl 6, and shares this thoughts on how that went, along with the rest of the day. I loved this line: "It was just so darn friendly, and the whole darn Perl community is so darn friendly". -------------- The Lion and the Butterfly and the Camel https://dev.to/jj/the-lion-and-the-butterfly-and-the-camel-a8b JJ's thoughts on the day, during which he gave a talk on using Perl 6 for teaching programming to complete novices. -------------- Mohammad's report on LPW http://blogs.perl.org/users/mohammad_s_anwar/2017/11/london-perl-workshop-2017---report.html Mohammad gave his first-ever Perl talk last year at LPW, and he came back to talk about Map::Tube ( https://metacpan.org/pod/Map::Tube ) this year. -------------- ============= The Perl Foundation Test2 Documentation Grant Progress Report http://news.perlfoundation.org/2017/11/test2-documentation-grant-prog-3.html Alberto passes on an update from Chad, for his work on Test2 ( https://metacpan.org/pod/Test2" class="distribution ), being done under a TPD grant. -------------- ============= Community PullRequest - Personal Milestone http://blogs.perl.org/users/mohammad_s_anwar/2017/11/pullrequest---personal-milestone.html Mohammad has got addicted to help others, via pull requests. He gives us some statistics on his journey so far. -------------- ============= The corner of Gabor A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor. 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