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Issue #155 - 2014-07-14 - There Be Cobwebs In Those Coffers
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This week, we have echos of the next conferences coming out way (YAPC::EU, the Perl Swiss Workshop, the next London.pm meetings). We also have some updates of the financial state of some of Perl's foundations and, alas without surprises, it seems we are running on a very lean budget -- perhaps a reminder to us all to poke our $workplaces and see if they can't help in some way to keep the ecosystem alive and well-fed. ~ `/anick
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Dan Wright warns us that the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund is running low on gas. Companies that rely on Perl to do the job, now would be a good time to chip in...
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Makoto Nozaki gives us the low-down on the Perl Foundation Grants Committee; how much money they currently have, how the rest of the year looks like.
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Dave Cross lets us know what's coming up at the London.pm meetings. (sneak peak: lots of good stuff, that's what is coming)
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the site's statistics, he draws a list of his best hits, as well as his own favorite entries.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q8JSw6" style="
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Ricardo Signes gives us the second part of his YAPC::NA debriefing.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q8JQEp" style="
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YAPC::NA is over, long live YAPC::EU. Alex Balhatchet and a contingent of Nestoria's devs are preparing themselves for the trip to Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Neil Bowers testify of the synergy between CPAN authors, and how we are more as a group than the sum of our parts.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q8JQEu" style="
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Steven Haryanto gathers some interesting stats on Debian packages and the languages in which they are based.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q8JQEv" style="
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Andrew Solomon interviews Emma Howson, a young, nascent Perl developer (and author of the PerlAdventures blog which appears here from time to time).
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q8JSMo" style="
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Perl's new postderef syntax looks funny, but there is a reason for it. Aristotle explains the devil that lies in the details of the deadly dereferencing drama.
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Using Interchange for your e-commerce? You might want to keep an eye on Stefan Hornburg, as he's starting a project that will allow Interchange to interface with Amazon and Ebay.
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gvl has problems reaching metabase.cpantesters.org. From the comments, it seems that the problem isn't with the server, but could be born out of an IO::Socket::IP bug.
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Mark Fowler announces a new version of Test::DatabaseRow. With the next version comes an easier way to tell the tests to open wide the gates of verbosity.
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Laurent Dami continues on his quest for Perl-based virtual table support for SQLite. This time around, he has a working prototype to share with us.
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Tiny::Type is still too sluggish for you? You're mad. And so is Toby Inkster, who wrote a XS version of the module that gives a 300% boost to an already lean speed demon.
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Joel Berger raves about the new features of Mojolicious, and of the doors they open (or, at least, make much easier to pass through).
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Sinan Unur is having fun swapping pixels between classic paintings using GD::Image.
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24 min talk by Adam Dutko at YAPC::NA 2014
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19 min talk by Sebastian Riedel the author of Mojolicious. (pls note: Sound starts at 2:15)
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In the following cities: Sofia (Bulgaria), Tokyo (Japan), Flörli Olten (Switzerland), Hancock (NY/USA), Itapema (SC/Brasil), Salzburg (Austria), Barcelona (Spain)
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