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Issue #142 - 2014-04-14 - Heartbleed and Perl sites
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Infoworld trying to make another populistic assertion based on the biased, and incorrect TIOBE index, ran by the well known Perl-hater Paul Jansen. Unfortunately, other stats seem to show similar trends. The question: do you mind? And if you do: What do you do in order to change the trend?
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Yanick Champoux explains how preparing the Perl Weekly was made easier for him by adding special keys to Vim that will run a Perl script to fetch information from a web site and update the currently edited file.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kWEGnU" style="
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Dada Mail is a web-based mailing list manager, written in Perl.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kWEGo2" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kWEIwc" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kWEGEo" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kWEIMu" style="
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Chisel continues to show the built-in debugger of Perl. This time, it is about inspecting variables using p and x.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kWEIMx" style="
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Eric Johnson started a series of articles explaining the implementation of Plack, the implementation of PSGI.
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Sinan Unur is fighting with the compilation of Perl on his brand new Windows machine. The solution is in <a href="http://bit.ly/1kWEIMy">linking with the 64-bit libraries</a>.
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<p style="font-size: 16px">I guess you've already heard about the serius security bug found in OpenSSL. This is just a reminder and a few articles related to Perl sites</p>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kWEGUQ" style="
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Mike Doherty (doherty) explains the recovery process and includes a link to the <a href="http://bit.ly/1kWEGEz">perl script</a> of Steffen Ullrich for checking for the SSL Heartbleed vulnerability.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kWEIMD" style="
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Timm Murray from the Wumpus Cave has a suggestion for you. Use NSS instead of OpenSSL.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kWEGV0" style="
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Stratopan was updated.
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The report of Dave Mitchell.
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One hour presentation given by Timm Murray at the monthly meetings of the MadMongers in Madison, WI.
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The Perl 6 weekly reports a bunch of performance improvements in Rakudo.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kWEHbr" style="
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Jonathan Worthington provides more details on the recent developments in Rakudo.
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A special case of missing module error when you might try to install a module straight from its version control system.
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How would you sort the following strings: foo_11, bar_2_abc, moo_3 based on the numbers in it?
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kWEHrT" style="
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