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Issue #133 - February 10, 2014 - More Perl events
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You can <a href="http://perlweekly.com/archive/133.html">read the newsletter on the web</a>, if you prefer.
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Just a reminder, from now on the Perl Weekly newsletter only includes newly added events and the other events are listed on the web site. This is to avoid boring you with the same links again and again. Yet there are 4 new events added at the bottom of this edition. (Partly because they were left out by mistake earlier, partly because they are newly scheduled). In any case, you'll find evens all over the world, but especially around Europe.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8wN2" style="
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It is Buddy Burden again, explaining how <b>Perl is the language that Gets Shit Done</b>, but probably a lot more importantly, he explained his process of finding candidates for employment. I know not many companies work that way, but I think it is great. I love it!
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8wN5" style="
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I keep using the cwd() function from the Cwd module when I need the current working directory, but I think David Golden has a point. I should just change the habit and start using getcwd().
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8uF2" style="
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An article by A. Sinan Unur using regexes and HTML::TokeParser::Simple.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8wN8" style="
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Curtis 'Ovid' Poe, who runs the company called 'All Around the World' with his wife, has released some of their test-training materials under the Creative Commons by-nc license.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8wNh" style="
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Last week we saw some discussion about the problems FATAL warnings can cause. In response to that, Toby Inkster created a module that will leave run-time warnings alone and only turn compile-time warning into exceptions.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8x3y" style="
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Use __DATA__, Use FindBin to locate the data file, Makefile.PL / Build.PL and use File::Share. See the explanation of David Farrell.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8x3z" style="
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Ron Savage describes how he installed DBD::mysql and used it to access MariaDB.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8x3G" style="
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Yanick Champoux writes: <b>Something that Catalyst has and Dancer doesn't is chained routes.</b> But he cannot leave it that way, can he?
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8x3N" style="
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Before every release, John Napiorkowski checks if Catalyst with all of its 117 dependencies can be installed on a clean Perl. Spoiler: it can be.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8uVv" style="
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(<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/1wzk0h/pearlbee_new_blogging_engine_written_in_perl/">reddit</a>)
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8uVy" style="
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An excellent compilation by David Farrell of some of the newly released modules on CPAN.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8uVB" style="
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Ali Anari from Crowdt:lt while creating and upload WebService::NationBuilder to CPAN.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8uVC" style="
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As Mark Leighton Fisher explains: <b>the Jaccard Similarity Coefficient is a simple measure of how similar 2 sets are</b>.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8xkg" style="
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This is mostly for researchers, who, for some strange reason, would like to research the content of ancient distributions uploaded to CPAN.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8xAH" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8xAB">pmtools aka. Perl Module Tools</a> is a collection of command line tools that can show you the location of a module, the version number, etc.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8vcb" style="
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After a long break, finally Randy J. Ray has released a new version of his module and even blogged about it!. The next day the CPAN Testers <a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8xAN">sent him fail reports</a>, which lead to some interesting bug hunting. (I hope he'll post about that too).
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8vsu" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8y7G" style="
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It is a really great description of how BooK found an unmaintained module, got ownership in a nice way and released a new version of the module.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8y7J" style="
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One of the tools that I saw have brought people to use Perl was Image::ExifTool. Martin Evans show a simple use-case.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8y7N" style="
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The Perl Foundation wants to participate in the GSOC again. It is looking for mentors!
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8vJ6" style="
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Daisuke Maki has replaced Renée Bäcker.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8y7U" style="
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How to use (or avoid) the before and after method modifiers of Moose.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8yod" style="
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I have been using Vim for many years, but watching this video taught me so many new things. Presented by Doug Miles at the Phoenix Perl Mongers meeting.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8vZz" style="
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Finally I understood what the attributes on functions can do. They are like decorators in Python, but way more powerful. Presented by Steve Baker at the Phoenix Perl Mongers meeting.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8yEI" style="
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See also the <a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8vZD">mailing list</a> or contact Robert Blackwell directly. (<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8vZH">reddit</a>)
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8yEL" style="
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Matthew Wilson (diakopter) invested quite some time to compare stats on Perl vs other programming languages. Especially Python. Does not look good. So what does this mean to you? <a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8vZN">reddit</a>.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8yEN" style="
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My collection of some numbers. Most interesting are the Google Analytics graphs from blogs.perl.org, MetaCPAN, and search.cpan.org.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8BAk" style="
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Damian Conway will run a class called <b>Understanding Regular Expressions</b> in London on 12th March. See the description and the link to registration.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8BAu" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8zbU" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8BR0" style="
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As part of the series describing the class Object Oriented System of Perl, this article shows operator overloading.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8BR3" style="
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The 3rd part of the classic OOP series.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8zsq" style="
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Do you know what is the real name of the ternary operator?
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cn8BR8" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1j6DaSJ" style="
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March 13-16, 2014, Lyon, France
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1bnl9L8" style="
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April 2014, Swindon, UK
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cNoHqW" style="
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22-24 August, 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1exVzUV" style="
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5-6 September, 2014, Flörli Olten, Switzerland
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1bkDys0" style="
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In the following cities: Lyon (FR), Hannover (DE), Swindon (UK), Utrecht (NL), Poznan (PL), Prague (CZ), Kiev (UA), Orlando (FL/US), Sofia (BG), Flörli Olten (CH)
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