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Issue #123 - December 2, 2013 - Advent started
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Hi,
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The week started with very few articles but in the last 2-3 days, people started to write tons of interesting stuff. In addition, Advent started and with that the advent calendars. You'll have plenty of material to read or watch.
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Enjoy!
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<a href="http://bit.ly/18TTBvX" style="
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Will Braswell (Will_the_Chill) is running a fund-raiser for the RPerl project. As I understand, it is a very optimized Perl 5 compiler implementing part of the language. What Will calls the <a href="http://bit.ly/18TTz7i">low magic commands</a>. It was also <a href="http://bit.ly/1bcGPVv">discussed on Reddit</a>.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1bcGRwu" style="
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">Perl One-Liners has been published by No Starch Press</a>
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This is the announcement of Peteris Krumins himself. AFAIK the Perl Weekly discount code is still valid. (It is PERLWEEKLY)
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<a href="http://bit.ly/18TTBMo" style="
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This is a Perl distribution for Linux. The first release of the new series of releases that come with C libraries as well. This version comes with XML::LibXML (and thus libxml2). Just download, unzip and you can use it. List of extra CPAN modules on the site of <a href="http://bit.ly/18TTBw7">DWIM Perl for Linux</a>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1bcGQbX" style="
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Look, new toys! David Golden worked on quite a few CPAN modules lately without blogging about them. Now he collected the list: Class::Tiny, Path::Tiny, MooseX::Role::MongoDB,CPAN::Common::Index just to mention some of them.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/18TTznQ" style="
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Is Perl a secret weapon in Banks? Do any of them admit it? Can you find people who work at some of the largest money-making institutions that heavy rely on Perl. Dave Cross reposted a request for some 'proof that Perl is indeed used in the finance industry' and he got quite some. Now how can you turn this into money?
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<a href="http://bit.ly/18TTBMr" style="
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Great story by Ovid about the BBC and why reducing the test run-time can increase the productivity of your team.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/18TTznR" style="
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The CPAN adoption list ranks modules how important it would be for you to step-up and volunteer to maintain it. It takes in account several factors, starting from now, it also includes the test reports collected by the CPAN Testers.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1bcGRwz" style="
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In the last few weeks there seem to be a lot of action around Perl::Critic people creating new policies. This time Jonas Nielsen has done so checking for the use of Params::Validate.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/18TTznY" style="
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">Decoding radio-controlled bus stop displays</a>
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Ron Savage pointed out that there was a <a href="http://bit.ly/18TTznV">discussion on Slashdot</a> about a bus service in Helsinki, Finland that broadcasts the data for the tram stop display system. Oona Räisänen took the lead and reverse engineered the data. Using some Perl code.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1bcGRwC" style="
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Plotly offers a graphing library for scientific Perl/PDL. I don't see a dead-line, but they plan to announce the winner on 29 December 2013, so you better send your graphs in the next 2-3 weeks.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/18TTznZ" style="
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John Napiorkowski, the current leader of Catalyst recommends us to go over the slides of Jonathan Worthington on the concurrency model of Perl 6.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1bcGQsv" style="
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Part of the BigThink interview series of Larry Wall.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1c46q7x" style="
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This time with comments and links.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/18TTCjw" style="
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Oylenshpeegul collected the list of Advent calendars: Go, Perl 5, Perl 6, Dancer, Futures, Sys, Java, Garage Rock.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/18TTEYw" style="
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In Perl 6 land, 2013 will be remembered as the year that brought proper concurrency support....
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1bcGRwJ" style="
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Per and the Semantic web. Introducing RDF::Trine and RDF::Query
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1bcGRMZ" style="
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Paul LeoNerd Evans will cover the Futures module during this Advent.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1bcGRN3" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/18TTEYG" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/18TTCzV" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1bcGRN7" style="
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It is especially for beginners, but even long time Perl users might find a few suggestions here. Certainly you could use this page to recommend your co-workers some basic things how to improve their Perl code.
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<p style="font-size: 16px">I usually list the next 3-4 events here. The list of all the events can be found <a href=http://perlweekly.com/events.html>on the web site</a>. If your Perl event is not listed there, please let me know.</p>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/10WS00y" style="
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">German Perl Workshop (GPW 2014)</a>
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March 26-28, 2014, Hannover, Germany
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<a href="http://bit.ly/H6ndeD" style="
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June 23-25, 2014, Orlando FL
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