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Issue #150 - 2014-06-09 - Hot? Cold? Exotic? Urban? Don't Worry: We Have a Conference For You
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If you are looking for conferences to attend, this week's edition of the Perl Weekly will make you very happy indeed. In addition of reports of conferences that just ended (and will be back next year), we have announcements for quite a few conferences and workshops happening this summer and fall: Florida, Switzerland, Grenada, Austria, the buffet is as varied as it is appetizing. ~ Yanick
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We are a growing software company using open source software/modern Perl practices to build innovative e-payment, auction, and tax collection web applications. We are looking for talented, motivated professionals committed to flawless work and customer service.
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<p style="font-size: 16px">GitTip allows you to give a regular weekly monetary gift to people in order to encourage them to do more of the awesome stuff they have been doing. The gifts can be as low as 1 cent a week. In this section every week you will see a different Perl developer we recommend you support. Oh, and the Perl Weekly itself also has a <a href="https://www.gittip.com/PerlWeekly/">GitTip account</a>.</p>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZ7YAi" style="
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chromatic is the author of <a href='http://modernperlbooks.com/mt/index.html'>Modern Perl</a>, a book that for the last few years fills the niche of presenting Perl via the lense of its modern best practices. The electronic versions of the book (pdf, ePub, mobi) are available for free, and the <a href='https://github.com/chromatic/modern_perl_book'>raw source of the book</a> itself is available on GitHub.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1hOS5Mx" style="
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It's modern, and now available as a ePub and mobi eBooks.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZ80YS" style="
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Not anything planned for this October? How about visiting the beautiful city of Salzburg, and attend the Austrian Perl Workshop?
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Hunting for conferences that are not in exotic, incredibly warm places? The Swiss Perl Workshop now has rented its locale.
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Infinity Interactive's list of YAPC::NA courses. Yes, there is still time to register for these!
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZ7Z73" style="
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Yuki Kimoto releases a new version of GitPrep, the Perl-based GitHub-like repository service.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZ81vI" style="
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Hankering for conferences in exotic locations? The Granada Perl Workshop is going to take place on Friday, June the 27th, Salvador Fandino reminds us.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZ81vN" style="
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Only a handful of weeks until YAPC::NA, and Khaos is slowly preparing herself to take the road for the event.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZ81vQ" style="
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As a follow-up to Andy Lester's article of last week, Joe McMahon reminesces about the days where computers's weight (in tons) and storage capacity (in megs) were roughly equivalent, and how that wildly different paradigm shaped his skills.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZ81vW" style="
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Gabor has reasons to celebrate: Maven Pro is now one year old!
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZ81Md" style="
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This entry is the first of a series, where Kasek Galgal plans to explore the role and potential of Perl in developing countries.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZaPZQ" style="
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by Michael Gerb.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZ7ZnB" style="
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Perl 5.20 gives us a few more shiny tools to play with, but enabling them usually requires a line or two more of boilerplate code at the top of your files. Mike Friedman wants the former very much, but isn't too keen on the latter.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZ7ZnG" style="
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List::Util and List::MoreUtils are a cornucopia of useful functions. LeoNerd tells us about the latest changes that come to them for, and in the wake of, the 5.20.0 release.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZ7ZnK" style="
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Steven Haryanto shares a few more tools useful for the scrubbing and clean-up the old releases of one's CPAN account.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZ822I" style="
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The original skyline uses Python's numpy and scipy. Here we have a port of its algorithms in Perl's own PDL.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZ7ZnQ" style="
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Owner of an Apple laptop and want to query and graph your battery usage? mikegrb has a script for you.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZ7ZE7" style="
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Dmitry Karasik is porting a First-Person engine in Perl using Cairo. Good news, the coding was smooth sailing. Bad news, performance is not quite the zippiest.
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Stefan Hornburg (Racke) talks about Dancer and DBIx::Class. (35 min)
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZap5G" style="
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In direct from NLPW::2014, Merijin Band (Tux) presents "CSV Less complicated". (40 min)
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZardO" style="
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Theo van Hoesel talks about math and how he extended Number::Fraction. (20 min)
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZardP" style="
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Elizabeth Mattijsen (liz) comparing Perl 5 and Perl 6 syntax. (40 min)
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZ7ZEg" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1kZardR" style="
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Why Perl could not parse the JSON file created by a Python script?
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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), Salzburg (AT)
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