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Issue #117 - October 21st, 2013 - Peculiar Modules, Odd Behaviors and Surprising Finds
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With Perl, it doesn't matter how long you've been programming or how well you know the language: there's always room for surprises. Whether it's the eccentric corner-case behavior of an otherwise trustworthy module, an intriguing new experiments born of a brilliant mind, or performance results that beats expectations, you can bet that there's at least one link below that will make you go "oh, really?". "Oh, really?", I hear the skeptics in the room say. To which I confidently reply: "Oooh yes. Really." ~ `/anick
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Shinji Tanaka benchmarked how REST API servers written in Go, Perl and Ruby perform. The results are quite interesting: Go wins, but Perl is pleasantly not very far behind, both leaving Ruby somewhat far behind.
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The Perl testing culture. Is it good? You betcha. Is it perfect? Not even remotely close. Ovid brings up this laundry list of the typical sins we commit in our test suites, and how we can, and should improve on it.
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Real life has swiss army knives and duct tape, the Unix environment has Perl and cron. David Farrell offers a nice little tutorial on how to make those two fundamental sysadmin tools play well together.
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OAuth. Not the easiest thing to grok, but if one wants to work with web services nowadays, it's pretty hard to ignore. Ricardo Signes shares with us small scripts that perform the authentication dance with with Instapaper's and Withings's APIs.
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Sometimes it's a good exercise to port an application from framework A to framework B, just so see how the two compare. That's exactly what Joel Berger did here, for his own edification, and ours.
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Quick, what are the -M, -A and -C file tests doing in Perl? Don't remember? Well, don't worry: Sebastian reminds us of those little known but handy tests.
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Email::Valid is a handy module, but it also has.. surprising edges, as the Perl Hacker Painter found out.
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Halloween is approaching, and in that spirit Ovid shares with us the terrifying tale of how he battled an ancient evil, born of an Age all but forgotten.
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Two reasons to rejoice. Upasana announces that Moose's exceptions are now lovingly structured, and gives us a rather impressive summary of what she learned during her internship for Moose as part of the GNOME Outreach Program for Women.
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fREW presents here his latest work-in-progress, a module that auto-detect details of the database a DBIx::Class handler points to.
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Shawn Moore was the dark Sith master to Upasana's Padawanernship. He gives us the tale of her exceptional rise to power, and an inkling of the joy and work that goes into mentoring.
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November 23, 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Saturday 30th November 2013 at Westminster University
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