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Issue #170 - 2014-10-27 - Last day for LPW submissions!
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Lots of videos for you to watch this week, particularly those from the Austrian Perl Workshop, held recently.
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You might have noticed that MetaCPAN had a bumpy week, the result of a move to new hardware in a different data centre, hopefully settled now. Olaf tells me they're always looking for volunteers, want to help out?
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Think carefully before giving feedback to Gabor on the Perl Weekly — you might find yourself an editor!
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Editor #3, Neil
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Rik Signes has (re)written a handy little tool for finding unicode characters, called uni. Fork it <a href="http://bit.ly/ZSyYOT">on github</a> or get <a href="http://bit.ly/ZSyZ57">App::Uni</a> from CPAN. It was a rewrite of a tool of the same name written by Audrey Tang.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKefF" style="
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Gabor Szabo has started an open source clone of search.cpan.org, <a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKefE">sco.perlmaven.com</a>, which is built on MetaCPAN's API.
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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/ZSMulq" style="
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When the number of your tests grow beyond 10 it might be a good time to split them up into subtests.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/ZSMuSx" style="
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This is the first episode explainig how to build the search.cpan.org clone.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfjJ" style="
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Videos from the recent Austrian Perl workshop are now on youtube. See Marko Jozic talking about Bootstrap and Dancer 2 for newbies; Tim Bunce on Devel::NYTProf; Stefan Seifert on Inline::Perl5; Paul Johnson on Docker; Lars Dieckow on HTTP tricks, and some guy called Larry.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfjL" style="
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Watch Paul Evans's talk from YAPC::EU, about his <a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfjK">Future</a> module on CPAN.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfjN" style="
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Ovid posted a link to the video of his opening keynote from YAPC::EU this year, also on YouTube.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfA0" style="
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brian d foy has called for nominations for this year's White Camel Awards, which are given for non-technical achievement in Perl and the Perl community. Add comments to the blog post, email brian, or tweet under #whitecamelaward.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKew0" style="
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Ingy and David have started a blog about their work on Inline::C and Inline::CPP which was awarded a grant. This week is mainly about bootstrapping themselves.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfA1" style="
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Abigail did October's development release of Perl 5, which includes: the new 'double diamond' operator <<>>; aliasing of subroutines and variables; and more!
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfA4" style="
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Ovid had a mini rant on twitter, begging people to stop using indirect object notation (<tt>$object = new Class;</tt>). Paul Johnson directed people to a <a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfA2">summary of problems with indirect object notation</a> from tchrist, 16 years ago!
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKew6" style="
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David Farrell looks at some of the ways you can use the <tt>split()</tt> built-in.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfA6" style="
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brian d foy shows how you can use <i>computed labels</i> with Perl 5.18+, letting you write <tt>next $label;</tt>.
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Timo's list of happenings in Perl 6 also includes a mini report on the Austrian Perl Workshop.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKew8" style="
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@koorchik compared performance of 4 languages for computing Excel style formulae: code and results are <a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKew7">on github</a>. NodeJS solution by far the fastest, PHP and Perl5 similar but an order of magnitude slower, Perl 6 two orders of magnitude slower again.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1tYdGxi" style="
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Ed Freyfogle explans the problem solved by the new <a href="http://bit.ly/ZSMuSA">Geo::Address::Formatter</a> module.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfAe" style="
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfAc">Bio-Community</a> is a toolkit that extends BioPerl to make life easier microbial ecologists. This is based on work by Florent Angly, Christopher Fields and Gene(!) Tyson.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfQx" style="
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This month the Nestoria team tip their hat to, and <a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKewa">tip</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfAg">Matt Trout</a> for, <a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfAi">Role::Tiny</a>.
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David Farrell created <a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKewe">Devel::DidYouMean</a> (currently tagged experimental), which “intercepts failed function and method calls, suggesting the nearest matching available subroutines in the context in which the erroneous function call was made”. It was inspired by the <a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfQB">did_you_mean</a> ruby gem.
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Leon Timmermans released <a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfQC">File::Slurper</a>, previously known as File::Slurp::Sane. It's intended as a replacement for <a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfQF">File::Slurp</a>, which has a number of <a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKeMu">problems</a>.
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Alex is looking for Brent B. Powers, the author of (amongst others) Tk::FileDialog and Tk::Waitbox. When an author is unresponsive, if you want to help out by taking over a module, you need to go to appropriate lengths to track down the author. This is a good time to remind you: when your email address changes, don't forget to update PAUSE, so people can keep in touch with you.
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The ten most rated Perl questions on stackoverflow last week.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfQJ" style="
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Newly favourited and most favourited distributions on MetaCPAN.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKeMz" style="
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A screencast from Gabor which demonstrates search.cpan.org
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfQL" style="
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Gabor explains some of MetaCPAN's URL schemes, for getting the latest page for a module and distribution.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKfQM" style="
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The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is at the Doubletree Hotel, 8th & 9th of November.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1o0ctvT" style="
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The London Perl Worshop is at Westminster University on Saturday 8th November. The deadline for submissions has been extended to 23:59 on Monday 27th October. Why not submit a lightning talk!
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In the following cities: Barcelona (Spain), London (UK), Pittsburgh (PA/USA), Helsinki (Finland), Paris (France)
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKeMD" style="
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npm is the equivalent of CPAN for node.js. This blog post gives some usage stats and plans for the future.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wAKeME" style="
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The second edition of the Pro Git book, by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub, is now availble online, in PDF, mobi, or ePub format for free. You can buy a printed copy from your usual place.
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