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Issue #145 - 2014-05-05 - MetaCPAN changes
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You can <a href="http://perlweekly.com/archive/145.html">read the newsletter on the web</a>, if you prefer.
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Hello there!
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I hope you spent both the International Workers' Day and Star Wars Day well, and you are ready for the challenges of the new week!
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Last week I included a call to <a href="https://www.gittip.com/yanick/">support Yanick via GitTip</a> that resulted a few people giving him money, and then Yanick and myself (Gabor), continued to discuss it. <a href="https://www.gittip.com/pjf/">PJF</a> suggested we set up a team-account in GitTip so people can give tips to the Perl Weekly team, and then the members of the team can divide the money. So I set up a <a href="https://www.gittip.com/PerlWeekly/">GitTip account for the Perl Weekly</a> and it already received some gifts. Thanks! We don't expect to be super-rich from this (at least not in the next few weeks ;), but it would be awesome to get presents from hundreds, or even thousands of our readers. Actually I'd prefer receiving 1 cent from a 100 people than $1 from a single person. So if you have a spare cent a week...
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The other idea that was suggested by Yanick was to include a new section called 'GitTip Profile of the week'. I find this a good idea as it will give us an opportunity to introduce an open source Perl contributor a week without running lengthy interviews :). It will also gives you an opportunity to give a small weekly present to these people. I am going to look at the people listed in the <a href="https://www.gittip.com/for/perl/">Perl community at GitTip</a>, and the mashup created by Neil Bowers called <a href="http://neilb.org/cpan-tip/">CPAN Tip</a>.
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Enjoy!
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgrd" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIfmU">Neil</a> has been working tirelessly to make CPAN a better place. He advocates the <a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgrb">adoption of CPAN modules</a>, he created the <a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgrc">CPAN Tip mashup</a>, and he is working on the CPAN authors' dashboard. Coincidentally I have <a href="http://bit.ly/14ZoZIr">interviewed him</a> a while ago.
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<div style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIfn3" style="
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The result: Perl is much faster. Reactions on <a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIfn0">Reddit</a>.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgHv" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgHw" style="
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<div style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgHy" style="
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With a follow-up <a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgHx">UTF-8 output from Perl in cmd.exe: Layers of goodness</a>.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIfnb" style="
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Answering a couple of questions such as 'How to print debug messages in XS?' and 'How to validate memory accesses of a C program on Windows?'
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgHz" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgHA" style="
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Setting breakpoints using (b). Listing the breakpoints using (L). Clearing them using (B). Setting conditional breakpoints.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIfnc" style="
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Steven Haryanto brings up an interesting problem. Give a short string, how can you cheaply(!) detect if it is any of the 'standard' or 'approved' formats?
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIfnd" style="
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Mostly the results of the recent Dancer 2 hackathon.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgHD" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgHG" style="
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As Neil Bowers is working on the CPAN author's dashboard he is putting the pieces together. This module allows you to iterate over all the recent releases limited by age.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgHH" style="
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If you'd like to follow the changes in MetaCPAN, now there is a page for this with an RSS feed.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgHI" style="
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The monthly report about new stuff on CPAN.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgHJ" style="
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brian d foy and Sawyer X are planning to take the train around Europe, stop-by interesting places and talk to the local Perl Mongers. If you are interested to having them in your city, check out the article and get in touch with them.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgHN" style="
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After several months of break, Paul Johnson is back in the saddle, and started to work on Devel::Cover again. Including some plans to update <a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgHM">cpancover.com</a>.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgY3" style="
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The new, bi-monthly opening for grant requests by The Perl Foundation.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIiiE" style="
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<div style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgYa" style="
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The Perl 6 weekly update.
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<div style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/QOfyqt" style="
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The English transcript(?) of the talk Audrey Tang gave at TEDxTaipei.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgYe" style="
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In a nutshell, I think if all the people who benefit from Perl contributed back to the community, the Perl ecosystem could do a lot more. So if you cannot contribute time, maybe you can contribute some money. GitTip is an easy way to do so.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgYh" style="
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This year Dave Cross will run his regular courses in November.
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<div style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIgYi" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIiiF" style="
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<div style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIhew" style="
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Do you know what is the #!/usr/bin/perl at the beginning of Perl scripts? What about #!/usr/bin/env perl ?
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIheA" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIiiJ" style="
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In this article you'll find a small introduction to how to contribute to MetaCPAN via the naive way the news feed was added.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1jce3N8" style="
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8-10 May, 2014, Orem, UT, USA and it has a <a href="http://bit.ly/1jtIiiN">Perl Track</a>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1bkDys0" style="
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In the following cities: Silver Spring, (MD/USA), Orem (UT/USA), Poznan (PL), Prague (CZ), Oslo (NO), Paris (FR), Kiev (UA), Orlando (FL/USA), Sofia (BG), Flörli Olten (CH)
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