<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes">
<title>Perl Weekly Issue #169 - 2014-10-20 - TWiki-6.0.1 Released</title>
</head>
<body>
<style>
* { text-align: left; }
table {
font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
width: 700px;
}
@media (max-width: 800px) {
table {
width: 370px;
}
}
p { margin: 1.2em 0em 1.35em 0em; line-height: 1.4em; }
a { color: #04c; }
#menu {
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
}
#menu ul {
text-align: center;
margin: 0;
}
#menu li {
font-size: 12px;
display: inline;
list-style-type: none;
padding-right: 10px;
}
#social_icons {
margin-top: 10px;
}
</style>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff">
<tr><td>
<p id="logo">
<a href="http://perlweekly.com/" style="
background-color: #004065;
color: #FFF;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 40px;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: Gadget;
border-radius: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000;
padding: 10px;
">Perl Weekly</a>
</p>
<p id="issue"
style="border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
padding-bottom: 8px;
font-size: 18px;">
Issue #169 - 2014-10-20 - TWiki-6.0.1 Released
</p>
<div style="text-align: center">
You can <a href="http://perlweekly.com/archive/169.html">read the newsletter on the web</a>, if you prefer.
</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table>
<tr><td>
<p style="font-size: 16px">
Hi,
</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px">
APW - the Austrian Perl Workshop has ended and it created a flurry of Perl 6 related blog posts. I am not sure if the activity level of the Perl 6 developer was also substantially increased or not, but we, people who don't follow Perl 6 that closely can suddenly see that things are happening. That's great.
</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px">
BTW how do you like the changes in the Perl Weekly? Do you see the images on the right?
</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px">
Enjoy your week! ~szabgab
</p>
</td>
<td>
<img style="right:0; bottom: 0;" src="http://perlweekly.com/img/szabgab.png" />
</td></tr>
</table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<hr style="color: red" id="sponsors" />
<div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Sponsors</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
style="
background-color:#EEEEEE;
border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
padding-left: 10px;
"
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1rM04mw" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">We are Hiring a Senior Perl Software Developer - Grant Street Group</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
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.
</p>
</div>
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<hr style="color: red" id="articles" />
<div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Articles</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1nwFPIW" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">Language Identification, Neural Networks and Perl</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
Alberto Simões has published a module related to a not yet published article. The module, <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Lingua::Identifier">Lingua::Identifier</a> can be already found on CPAN.
</p>
</div>
</td><td><img src="http://perlweekly.com/img/alberto_simoes.png" title="Alberto Simões" width="80" />
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1nwFPJ0" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">A study of code abstraction</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
A study of code abstraction: Modern developers are shielded from the inner workings of computers and networks thanks to several layers of code abstraction. We'll dig into those layers from a single line of Perl code, down to the bytes that get produced at the bottom of the API stack. (PDF) by Patrick Lambert (<a href="http://bit.ly/1nwFPIX">reddit</a>)
</p>
</div>
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<hr style="color: red" id="perl_maven_pro" />
<div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Perl Maven Pro</div>
<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>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
style="
background-color:#EEEEEE;
border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
padding-left: 10px;
"
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1rmjSaG" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">Creating a testing module</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
The third and final part of the mini-series in which we tested random numbers, abstracted out a testing function, and them moved it to a module to be usable by anyone.
</p>
</div>
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
style="
background-color:#EEEEEE;
border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
padding-left: 10px;
"
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1rmjSHJ" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">Test::Builder object</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
Every example I see receives the singleton Test::Builder object in a different way. So what is the right way?
</p>
</div>
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<hr style="color: red" id="testing" />
<div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Testing</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1rmjSHL" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">How to test Perl roles without creating test classes</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
David Farrell is working on a 2D game engine called March which uses a composition pattern for its actors. This is how he tests the code.
</p>
</div>
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1nwFPZh" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">CPAN Testers Summary - September 2014 - Fire of Unknown Origin</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
The CPAN Testers service needs financial help to pay for the hosting. If your company relies on Perl and thinks that having high quality Perl modules is important for their business, let them know about the need!
</p>
</div>
</td><td><img src="http://perlweekly.com/img/smoking_onion.png" title="Smoking onion of the CPAN Testers" width="80" />
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<hr style="color: red" id="web" />
<div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Web</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bbc.in/1nwFPZl" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">Genome: behind the scenes</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
Andy Armstrong writes about the new BBC web site powered by Dancer. It is the effort to digitise all the issues of Radio Times between 1923 and 2009. They currently have 4,423,653 programmes from 4,469 issues. (<a href="http://bit.ly/1nwFPZk">reddit</a>)
</p>
</div>
</td><td><img src="http://perlweekly.com/img/andy_armstrong.png" title="Andy Armstrong" width="80" />
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1nwFPZm" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">TWiki-6.0.1 Released - Better Usability, Improved App Platform</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
Twiki is one of the biggest and most successful open source / commercial Perl projects. Now it has a new release.
</p>
</div>
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<hr style="color: red" id="grants" />
<div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Grants</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1nwFPse" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">ACT - Voyager - logbook 2014-09-01</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
The first two reports about the ACT (A Conference Toolkit) grant
</p>
</div>
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1nwFPZn" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">ACT - Voyager - logbook 2014-10-01</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
</p>
</div>
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<hr style="color: red" id="perl_6" />
<div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Perl 6</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1nwFPZp" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">Macros: thunkish parameters</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
Carl Mäsak started a series of articles discussing macros in Perl 6. A huge topic with lot of unclear dark corners. See also the <a href="http://bit.ly/1nwFPsh">feedback</a>.
</p>
</div>
</td><td><img src="http://perlweekly.com/img/carl_masak.png" title="Carl Mäsak" width="80" />
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1nwFPZr" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">APW2014 and the Rakudo Great List Refactor</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
After long break Patrick Michaud writes a blog post about leaving flatland, how Perl 6 has less and less flattening functions and operators.
</p>
</div>
</td><td><img src="http://perlweekly.com/img/patrick_michaud.png" title="Patrick R. Michaud" width="80" />
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1nwFPZv" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">Macros: nesting macros</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
How can macros relate to each other or use each other? AngularJS has outside-inside relationship. What should Perl 6 have?
</p>
</div>
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1nwFPsq" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">Flattening and such</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
Solomon Foster (colomon) is being confused by the flattening (or not) behaviour of Perl 6. So what can mere mortals say?
</p>
</div>
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<hr style="color: red" id="weekly_collections" />
<div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Weekly collections</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1nwFPZx" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">(clv) stackoverflow perl report</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
</p>
</div>
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1nwFQfK" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">(cxxx) metacpan weekly report - Mojo::Pg</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
</p>
</div>
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<hr style="color: red" id="perl_maven_tutorials" />
<div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Perl Maven Tutorials</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1nwFQfN" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">MetaCPAN and the CPAN Testers</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
Short screencast starting at the MetaCPAN site and explainig a bit about the CPAN Testers.
</p>
</div>
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1nwFQfO" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">How to build perl from source on Linux</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
Plain simple instrctions for compiling perl for source code.
</p>
</div>
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1nwFQfP" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">Argument ... isn't numeric in numeric ...</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
A common warning explained
</p>
</div>
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<hr style="color: red" id="events" />
<div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Events</div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<table><tr><td>
<div
>
<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1bkDys0" style="
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: bold;
">Perl-related events</a>
<br />
<p style="font-size: 16px">
In the following cities: Barcelona (Spain), London (UK), Pittsburgh (PA/USA), Helsinki (Finland), Paris (France)
</p>
</div>
</td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<div id="footer" style="
border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
">
<p>
You joined the Perl Weekly to get weekly e-mails about the Perl programming language and related topics.
<br />
Want to see more? See <a href="http://perlweekly.com/archive/">the archives</a> of all the issues.
<br />
Reading this as a non-subscriber? <a href="http://perlweekly.com/">click here to join us</a> free of charge.
<br />
(C) Copyright <a href="http://szabgab.com/">Gabor Szabo</a>. The articles are copyright the respective authors.</p>
You can <a href="http://perlweekly.com/unsubscribe.html">unsubscribe here</a> if you don't want to receive mails any more.
</p>
<p>
You can freely redistribute this message if
you keep the whole message intact, including
the Copyright notice and this text.
</p>
<div>
</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>