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Issue #136 - March 03, 2014 - YAPC::NA - Early Bird Registration Payments extended!
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Hi,
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there are 14 Perl related events listed for the coming months. Two in the US; the rest in Europe. Have you heard about them? Have they made any announcements? Are you going to attend? Can you help them reach more people?
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn6H9" style="
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Another call for speakers for the Mojolicious conference that will take place between May 23-25, 2014 in Oslo, Norway. The deadline is in less than 2 weeks.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn4PE" style="
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Of YAPC::NA till March 7th 2014. Hurry up!
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn4PJ" style="
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GitPrep, written by Yuki Kimoto, is an open-source GitHub clone written in Perl. It needs both your testing - just use it! - and your contribution. (code, docs, UI, etc.)
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn6Hd" style="
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v5.19.9 the latest development release of Perl edging toward 5.20 already has an experimental feature called 'signatures'. It will let you declare sub f($name, $email) {} eliminating the need to deal with @_. It is still far away from what Method::Signatures provides, but at least it will be part of the language.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn6Hg" style="
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Chris Travers show 3 examples from code where HTML is embedded in Perl to using Moose, and explains how malleable Perl is. To quote him: "Perl isn't just a programming language, but a toolkit for building programming languages inside it."
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn6Hh" style="
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As explained by the author, Jesse Shy, this will launch a throw away instance of MongoDB in the /tmp directory to make it seamless to write tests.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn6Hi" style="
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Ovid improved DBIx::Class::EasyFixture eliminating half the lines you had to write for setting up some data in a database for testing.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn6Xz" style="
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Toby Inkster recommends the following: Test::More 0.96, Test::Fatal, Test::Warnings, Test::Requires, Test::Deep, Test::LongString, and a few more.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn560" style="
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The original intention of Type::Tiny written by Toby Inkster was to provide a framework for attribution to Moose-style class builders, but can also be used for sub parameter validation, switch-like statements, tied arrays, and probably more. Now that it is getting closer to its major release, Toby is looking for more use-cases that might bring in more test-cases to the unit tests of Type::Tiny. That will help in ensuring stability of the API after the 1.0 release.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn6XA" style="
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Jeffrey Kegler explains that the DSL of Marpa, which is written in itself, can be understood without requiring significant white-spaces, and without an end-of-statement mark.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn563" style="
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Salvador Fandino is finding his computer by ssh-ing to all the 512 IP addresses in the network of his employer. Will he be terminated for attempted break-in? Or will he be able to find his own computer?
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn6XE" style="
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Several ways to encourage yourself to upload new releases to CPAN. By Neil Bowers.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn6XJ" style="
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By Jonas B. Nielsen.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn564" style="
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Just as last month, now again David Farrell provides a list of interesting changes on CPAN.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn567" style="
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Makoto Nozaki, the new head of The Perl Foundation Grants Committee has announced the new rules. 1) Calls for grants will be every 2 months. 2) Grant limit is up to 10,000 USD. 3) Some other, minor issues.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn56a" style="
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The application deadline is March 14th. Acceptance by March 31st.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn56b" style="
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Mike Friedman at YAPC::NA 2012 - 32 min talk.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn6XO" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn56e" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn81E" style="
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<p style="font-size: 16px">As a side note, the Perl Maven site passed daily 6,000 visits for the first time on May 25.</p>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn81H" style="
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Just a list of channels where people can ask for Perl. My hope is that there will be localized versions of this page, pointing out resources, in the respective languages. So if you are a native speaker of some language other than English, please help.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1fBn7e7" style="
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Have you ever had disagreement with Perl? How have you settled it? This article show a use-case of B::Deparse that can tell you what Perl thought about the code you wrote.
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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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