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Issue #115 - October 7, 2013 - Debugging Perl scripts inside a browser
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<a href="http://bit.ly/15QGYC5" style="
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A while ago Dave Cross built a Google-based <a href="http://bit.ly/15QGYlR">search engine</a>, specifically for Perl sites. It just got a new facelift.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/16WT32H" style="
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This year the workshop will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark on November 23, 2013.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/15QGYC6" style="
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RT = Request Tracker. The software that runs <a href="http://bit.ly/1a49AUu">rt.cpan.org</a> among other things.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/15QGYC7" style="
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Sinan Unur shows his example to this special cases of joining some strings together. Taken from Rosetta Code.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/15QGWuf" style="
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A detailed answer by Buddy Burden to the gentle introduction of Damien Krotkine to the world of the p5-mop. p5-mop is the name of the project to get a Meta Object Protocol into the core of Perl 5. MOP is base Moose is built on. Having MOP in the core will mean there can be a standard, fast and very powerful Object Oriented system in Perl 5.
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While probably most readers of the Perl Weekly don't need any reason as to why use Perl, reading the article of Dietrich Schmitz can help when talking to the less than convinced.
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When developing Perl, how can you focus on the tests that are currently failing? Can you easily pick the ones that failed in the previous run? Gianluca Casati explains how to do that.
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Andy Gorman created a module called Pinto::Action::Doc that allows you to see the documentation of each module right in the Pinto repository.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1a49BaP" style="
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Ricardo Signes, the current Pumpking of Perl 5 shows what problems does a 'my $_' solve and what new problems does it create. He explain why did this feature became experimental, roughly 6 years after it was introduced in perl 5.10.
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Neil Bowers list the people who have adopted modules from his list, but really this information should be available on MetaCPAN and in both direction. Listing the heros who adopted modules in one place, but also showing who created the module in the first place and who contributed to it during the years.
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The monthly Moose report by Toby Inkster covers everything related to the Moose/Moo/p5-mop. Almost everything object oriented related in Perl.
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Paweł Król from XING visited YAPC::EU in Kiev. He has some very strong opinion on some of the speakers and about the whole perl versioning debate.
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Devel::hdb is a visual perl debugger that displays your script in a browser where you can step through the code, set breakpoints and inspect variables.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/148IjRI" style="
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October 9-10, 2013, Lisbon, Portugal
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1f9HK1l" style="
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October 26-27, 2013, Frankfurt, Germany
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<a href="http://bit.ly/18hunIE" style="
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November 2-3, 2013, Salzburg, Austria
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<a href="http://bit.ly/155GQIh" style="
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November 15-16, 2013, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
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