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Issue #135 - February 24, 2014 - What are you doing?
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Hi,
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Two new events added: one in Cluj, Romania and the other in Paris. See them at the end of the edition along with links to lots of other Perl-related events.
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A few days ago, I started to build a new site called <a href="http://edumaven.com/">EduMaven</a>, where I am going to publish slides of my courses. At first I think I am going to stick to the non-Perl courses. With your help, I'll get lots of new visitors, and then unleash the Perl slides on them. Does that sound like a good plan?
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Anyway, enjoy the weekly dose of Perl articles:
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoycg" style="
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Emma Howson is learning Perl and writing about it.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoyci" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoAkm" style="
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Using Perl::Critic to improve the code of your module is important, but is it also important to use it to clean up your tests? Asks Randy J. Ray. (hint: yes)
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoAkn" style="
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Excellent example using signals to ask a program: What are you doing?
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoAko" style="
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John Napiorkowski has a farm and raises all kinds of animals. Not surprising that he named the next release of Catalyst after the Ancona Duck.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoysI" style="
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David Farrel describes how to get started with this new blogging platform. Have you started to use it? If yes, please let me know, even if the blog is not about Perl. (<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoysD">reddit</a>)
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoAAI" style="
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Neil Bowers continues his quest to make CPAN a better place. This time he calls upon the CPAN authors to make sure the one-line abstract they have for their modules is well formatted. (This is another excellent opportunity to get your feet wet if you'd like to contribute to a CPAN module. Help an author fix the tag-line.)
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoAAN" style="
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Martin Evans uploaded the latest production version to CPAN.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoAAS" style="
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JT Smith implemented the Perl side of the <a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoysL">iflychat</a> web chat service so you can integrate it with your website.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoAB0" style="
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brian d foy describes the background, how modules on CPAN that have lost their original author can live on, and gain a new maintainer. brian also mentioned the available RSS feeds on <a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoysO">Perl authors on O'Reilly Programming blog</a>.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoARh" style="
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By Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoysR" style="
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Timm Murray reporting from the Wumpus Cave: The UAV::Pilot distribution is going to be split into several smaller distributions.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoysS" style="
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This is the annual report of The Perl Foundation. Many thanks to Dan Wright who started to produce these reports in the last 2 or 3 years.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoARq" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoyJb" style="
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It is chromatic reaching a certain age an contemplating his past and future. A good read for some of us with comments on <a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoARv">reddit</a>.)
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoyJe" style="
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Part 11 of the series Buddy Burden has been publishing.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoyJj" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoB7M">MoarVM</a> has it own web site, <a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoyJh">doc.perl6.org</a> became prettier among many other news. Including a section on how can you get involved.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoyJk" style="
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JT Smith shows several stages in the design of space looks like in Lacuna Expanse.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoyJl" style="
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Gittip is a place where you can set up a regular weekly contribution to someone (probably an open source developer). Last week Peter Rabbitson called upon the Perl community to join Gittip and start giving a few dollars a week, this time it is Ovid. His point was that even just having Perl on the front page of Gittip will help Perl. Indeed his call brought Perl from the 19th place to the 10th place. I think we can do even better. The only thing you need to do is to join the 'Perl community' at Gittip. This is free. - Of course I'd go further and call upon you to start sending a few dollars a week.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoB7Y" style="
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Some background story about DDG on how they care about our privacy, and a few words on the fact that they mostly use Perl. - They currently serve more than 4,000,000 search queries per day.
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<div style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoyJm" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoBoh" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoyZD" style="
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Is the meaning of the above words clear to you? Do you maybe use some of them interchangeably? Have some of those several different meanings?
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoBol" style="
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Have you encountered the problem that forked processes generate the same series of random numbers? Here is why, and how to avoid it.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cfoBom" style="
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Perl events need funding. Developers need training. Companies need more knowledgeable developer. Some of us like teaching and visiting places. A win-win situation. So if you are an organizer, please get in touch, but if you are a would be attendee at one of the events, you could also contact the organizers and ask them about courses.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1bTIUgB" style="
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March 31, 2014, Cluj, Romania
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1geRZNL" style="
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13-14 June 2014, Paris, France
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1bkDys0" style="
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In the following cities: Lyon (FR), Hannover (DE), Cluj (RO), Swindon (UK), Utrecht (NL), Silver Spring, (MD/USA), Poznan (PL), Prague (CZ), Oslo (NO), Paris (FR), Kiev (UA), Orlando (FL/US), Sofia (BG), Flörli Olten (CH)
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