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Issue #149 - 2014-06-02 - Perl 5.20 released
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This week had way too much happening in Perl.
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Perl 5.20 has been released. It is available from CPAN in source code format. MS Windows users can already download Strawberry Perl 5.20.0.1
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Mojolicious Five Point Oh has been released.
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The 2014 edition of the Modern Perl book has been published
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New developer tool: perlmodules.net
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Oh, and Parrot had a new release too.
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YAPC::NA finally has a preliminary version of its schedule. It also has a list of courses available before and after the conference.
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The first Perl Workshop in Granada, Spain, and the next YAPC::Asia in Tokyo have also been announced.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1hOS3EH" style="
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Many improvements, including experimental Subroutine signatures. Go ahead compile it from source and start using it. Soon after the announcement David Farrell posted a short overview of <a href="http://bit.ly/1hOS5wa">what you need to know</a> about perl 5.20.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1hOS5wh" style="
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Right on the heels of the first Mojolicious conference (Mojoconf) Sebastian Riedel announced the new version.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1hOS3V4" style="
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Use this if you'd like to get alerted when one of the dependencies of your application has a new version.
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While refactoring a large code-base, domm has encountered this error. It turns out it was a bug in DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader clobbering $_. Besides that, I'd say: Using $_ explicitly is usually not a good idea.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1hOS5ME" style="
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Listing names of functions while debugging by Rocky Bernstein.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1hOS5ML" style="
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Eric Johnson is converting variable names among CamelCase, snake_case, and kebab-case.
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Joel Berger attended the first Mojoconf.
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TAP is one of the awesome things born out of the Perl ecosystem that turned out to be nifty enough to sneak out and colonize other projects. Su-Shee talks here of its use with databases, Postgres, more specifically. ~yanick
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A 50 min introduction to Perl Dancer, by Yanick Champoux, the other editor of the Perl Weekly.
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Sawyer X, on the state of the dance floor these days. 20 min talk
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The regular Perl 6 weekly by Timo Paulssen.
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Dave Rolsky is going to give an introduction to Moose at YAPC::NA. I strongly recommend his course!
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A simple example creating an application that can echo a string.
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27 June, 2013, Granada, Spain
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28-30 August, 2014, Tokyo, Japan
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Finally there is a preliminary <a href="http://bit.ly/1hOS6A8">schedule</a> and a list of <a href="http://bit.ly/1hOS7nO">courses</a>.
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In the following cities: Paris (FR), St. Petersburg (Ru), Orlando (FL/USA), Granada (ES), Sofia (BG), Tokyo (JP), Flörli Olten (CH)
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