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Issue #167 - 2014-10-06 - TPF: Money in, grants out
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Welcome to te Perl Dancer conference in Hancock, NY!
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This week seems to be the week of The Perl Foundation. Five articles from receiving a $60,000 donation, through deciding on grants and getting grant reports to the promise of more active PR. Have TPF just woke up from its 15 year sleep? Will be fun to see.
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In other news, well, just go and read the other news: ~szabgab
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<p style="font-size: 16px">The <a href="http://perlmaven.com/pro">Perl Maven Pro</a> subscribers receive two new articles and screencasts every week. The last week these were the two screencasts:</p>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1urvtLq" style="
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How can you test if the function that returns an array or hash returned the expected array or hash? is_deeply to the rescue.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1urvuPx" style="
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Setting no_plan is drastic. There is another solution to avoid counting, which is a bit better: done_testing.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14Ne0" style="
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Perl 5.20 introduced a new, experimental syntax to dereference, well, references. brian d foy shows how to use those. What do you thin about the feature? Do you like it or think it creates further confusion? See also this <a href="http://bit.ly/1urvu1L">reddit</a> discussion.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14Pm9" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14Ne4" style="
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The monthly report of Toby Inkster about everything Object Oriented in Perl
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14Pmk" style="
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Neil Bowers, after reviewing all the available modules that can load other modules have reached the conclusion he needs to create his own. The will the <a href="http://bit.ly/1q14Pmh">universal standard</a> for loading modules.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14Pml" style="
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Last week, after sharing the previous article of David Farrell about the Shell voulnaribility and its impact on Perl, we got quite a few comments explaining that the article did not take into account mod_perl/cgi/something else. I am far from being an expert on security and Bash and this particular issue, so I am not sure this is a complete and correct solution, but I think it is definitely good to see solutions in Perl to problems not caused by Perl.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14Pmm" style="
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I am also a fan of Travis. It seems now Dave Wood is too.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14Nee" style="
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The monthly report of David Farell on the newly uploaded modules on CPAN. You can get the raw list from MetaCPAN (see the screencast about MetaCPAN recent uploads), but it is much more fun to see the list categorized and commented.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14PCF" style="
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It offers similar functionality as Sub::Exporter, that makes it easy to export functions.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14PCI" style="
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What if you don't really need/want an ORM, but still don't want to deal with the details of SQL? Or is it just a simple ORM? Is it a replacement for SQL::Abstract? Or that of Fey?
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14PCL" style="
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I did not know TPF supports the 4 events in the USA. I always thought it as more a global thing. But then there is YEF too.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14NuH" style="
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Inline::C(PP) Module Support got funded. IO::All Redux was put on hold till the next round.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14PCS" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14Qqf" style="
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Links to grant reports of the 'Modern Object Oriented Programming in Perl' and the 'Perl::Lint' grants.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14PT8" style="
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Dave Mitchell reporsts on his progress improving perl.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14Qqn" style="
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I have not actually tried this, but this, hmm, looks strange. A Java Application that will generate a GUI from a Perl script? It did not get a warm welcoming neither on <a href="http://bit.ly/1q14PTd">reddit</a> nor on <a href="http://bit.ly/1q14Qqj">PerlMonks</a>. I think the idea should be welcomed. Even if the implementation can be further improved in major ways.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14PTo" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14QGI" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14Q9F" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14Q9M" style="
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Explaining the good and the bad about 'or' short-circuiting.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14Q9T" style="
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MetaCPAN can show the most recently uploaded modules, and it can also filter it to show only modules that are totally new to CPAN. (3 min screencast)
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1q14QGW" style="
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It seems that Miyagawa insists on calling me out for noticing and mentioning the 4 reports about the Swiss Perl Workshop in English (BTW I found 5), while missing the 200 or so reports on YAPC::Asia 2014 in Japanese. (Though I included the 2 or 3 I found in English). It is impressive, but I still can't read any of those. So who will step forward and improve the communication between the Japanese and the English-speaking Perl community? I personally have started to play Go again. Now it is your turn.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1bkDys0" style="
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In the following cities: Hancock (NY/USA), Itapema (SC/Brasil), Salzburg (Austria), Barcelona (Spain), London (UK)
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