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Issue #134 - February 17, 2014 - Say It With Flowers
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You can <a href="http://perlweekly.com/archive/134.html">read the newsletter on the web</a>, if you prefer.
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Authoring modules on CPAN is very often an act of love, and from all times the community explored ways to say 'thank you' to the people who make the Perl ecosystem what it is. Recently, the site Gittip caught a few eyes, and now sees a budding Perl community. Some of the links of this week discuss how to join the party, and why it might a good thing. Beyond this, we have news of a new Mojolicious-centered conference happening in May, a preview of what's coming in Perl 5.20, and a nice collection of tutorials. Enjoy! ~ `/anick
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jsRlP9" style="
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A new 3-day conference revolving around Perl, the web and Mojolicious is coming to Oslo in May 23-25, 2014.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1f88uxa" style="
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3 May, 2014, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpkA4" style="
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Moritz Lenz's website Sudokugarden recently got a sizable spike in its traffic. With great success come scaling snags. He shares with us the problems the site hit, and what he did to work around them.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpkA7" style="
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DBIx::Class is a pretty useful piece of software. Ovid, however, takes it one step further and leverages its mechanisms to help in the design and sanity-check of database schemas.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpkA8" style="
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The key to a healthy database is eagle eyes. Johnny Morano shares with us how he gathers and reports statistics from his PostgreSQL database.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpkAe" style="
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You release a module to CPAN. And then, boom, error reports begin to pour in. What to do? Is panic the appropriate reaction? Randy J. Ray shares his experience, and his recommendations on how to stop worrying, and love the reports.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpmYX" style="
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David Farrell shows us one of the new cool features coming in Perl 5.20.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpmZ0" style="
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The difference between arrays and lists is a subtle one, and tripped more than one beginner. Emma Howson discusses those two beasties, highlighting in which ways they are alike and differ.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpkQF" style="
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Joel Berger reminesces on his DFW deduplication contest entry.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpkQK" style="
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Martin Evans benchmarks the main Perl HTTP clients, reasserting the merit of some old workhorses, and introducing some interesting newcomers.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpkQP" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpnfo" style="
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Why? Because it's usually simple to do, and makes things easy. Mark Dominus makes the case for the ever-useful unique identifier.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpnfp" style="
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Twelve of the current big Perl players have been asked the question: "This is February 2014. What's the state of Perl?"
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpnfq" style="
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Peter Rabbitson (aka. Ribasushi) embraced the current Perl Gittip movement, and argues how it can be a good way to give a nod to your favorite CPAN authors.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpnfr" style="
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Gittip now has a Perl community. If you are a CPAN author, you should consider joining. Here, Neil Bowers shows you how to add a gittip icon to your MetaCPAN account (spoiler: it's super easy).
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpl76" style="
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Minesh Patel gives an introduction to the joys of Devel::Cover.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpl7b" style="
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Barbies offers a view of what's happening in the Perl world, through tester's lenses.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpl7f" style="
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Testing with databases is typically hard and messy. Yet, sanity might shines at the end of the tunnel: Ovid has a new way to manage those unruly fixtures.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpnvM" style="
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On the outside, the new version of Git::CPAN::Patch will now clone the official git repository of a module if available. On the inside, Yanick discusses how to write tests for a module that pushes all of the hard buttons (command-line scripts, file/directory meddlings, network access, the works).
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpnvN" style="
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Hadoop's Oozie logs are a little... noisy. To be able to pare them down to something readable, Yanick wrote a small script.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpl7n" style="
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Code in Ruby? Love Moose? Rejoice, for there is now a port of our favorite ungulated OO system in the land of gems.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZplnE" style="
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Lincoln Stein, the original creator of CGI.pm, the module that helped lots of people in the 90's and that's is still in use in many places, is now looking for a new primary maintainer for the module. Its your chance for fame. Or at least to contribute to the greater good.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZplnH" style="
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The results of the survey of the Perl Web Development job market conducted by Andrew Solomon.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZplnL" style="
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Video of JT Smith's talk. And if those are stupid tricks, I guess we probably could all use a few more concussions in our lives.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpnvZ" style="
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Interview with Jay from last year.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZplnQ" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpnw2" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZpnMi" style="
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What is my and what is our?
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1lZplE9" style="
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Two 'magic' variables in Perl.
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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), Silver Spring, (MD/USA), Poznan (PL), Prague (CZ), Oslo (NO), Kiev (UA), Orlando (FL/US), Sofia (BG), Flörli Olten (CH)
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