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Issue #122 - November 25, 2013 - Over 5_000!
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first, let me just thank you for all the support. There are now more than 5_000 e-mail subscribers reading this newsletter. It is awesome!
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1c46pR8" style="
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Do you have special feelings when you see code that has 'use strict' in it? What if you notice that it does NOT have 'use strict'? How does that change your expectation from the code? How do you see your future with that code?
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<a href="http://bit.ly/IomDJi" style="
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Chris Marshall, the maintainer of PDL (Perl Data Language) distribution, is lookinf for input for the future direction of PDL. Please read the questions on the announcement, and send an e-mail to him to: devel.chm.01 at gmail.com
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1c46pRb" style="
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Are you a CPAN author? Do you think that your module is useful? Even to people who use Google as their search engine? Here is a way you can help Google show your module in a more personal way.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1c46nIX" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/IomFAQ" style="
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Ovid continues his work on the perl5-mop based port of Test::Class.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1c46pRc" style="
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Do you know how import works in Perl? Do you know what \*STDOUT means? Do you know how to create a function on the fly? Rob Hoelz explains all that.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/IomDJp" style="
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Command-line perldoc, dzil and got completion from your favorite Yanick. Screenshows.
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Andrew Solomon is running a small, one-page survey on Perl and web. Please fill it out in the next 48 hours and if you don't forget, please mention that you read about the survey in the Perl weekly. (I think the 5th question can have this information).
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(48:55) - Casey West gives a quick overview of Twitter Bootstrap, HTML5 Boilerplate, Modernizr, Shims, Respond.js, Mimosa, Stylus, and a lot of other front-end tools and libraries.
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(52:18) Dave Rolsy, author of the DateTime module explains about Daylight Saving Time, Leap seconds and the difficulty to make sane computation with dates and times.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/IomFB0" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/IomFB6" style="
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An almost legitimate use-case for chop!
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1c46nZt" style="
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Counting how many times a given (sub)string appears in a given text is a very common task where Perl is a perfect fit.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/IomFRm" style="
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Do you use MetaCPAN or search.cpan.org? Do you know you easily make changes to MetaCPAN to provide you better information? In this article I show the first few steps and a small change that was already accepted and deployed.
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Saturday 30th November 2013 at Westminster University
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<a href="http://bit.ly/10WS00y" style="
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March 26-28, 2014, Hannover, Germany
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June 23-25, 2014, Orlando FL
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