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Issue #174 - 2014-11-24 - First non-developer release of Perl::Lint
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE8388" style="
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Jeffrey Thalhammer (<a href='https://metacpan.org/author/THALJEF'>THALJEF</a>) announced that <a href='http://perlcritic.com'>perlcritic.com</a> (a web interface to his popular <a href='https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Critic'>Perl::Critic</a> module) has been moved to new hardware and completely rewritten (<a href='https://github.com/Perl-Critic/Perl-Critic-Jed'>source in github</a>).
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE80t2" style="
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Brian Medley (<a href='https://metacpan.org/author/BPMEDLEY'>BPMEDLEY</a>) describes how he uses <a href='https://metacpan.org/pod/Minion'>Minion</a> as a job queue for sending email.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE838b" style="
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Sinan Unur (<a href='https://metacpan.org/author/NANIS'>NANIS</a>) shows how to use the Windows Speech API to convert text to speech.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE838c" style="
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Getting statistics about CPAN from MetaCPAN.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE838g" style="
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For serving static files such as images, CSS files, JavaScript, or the robots.txt, Plack has an easy solution using the 'Static' middleware.
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<div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Blogs</div>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE80t5" style="
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Vytas Dauksa (<a href='https://metacpan.org/author/VYTAS'>VYTAS</a>) describes how he thinks Perl could be made more palatable for use in education. It can be summarised as 'enable all the Modern Perl stuff, break backwards compatibility to drop some of the legacy features, and bundle the best of CPAN'.
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Gabor Szabo (<a href='https://metacpan.org/author/SZABGAB'>SZABGAB</a>) has started curating <a href='http://perlmaven.com/web-sites-powered-by-perl-with-open-source-code-base'>a list of Perl-based web sites</a> for which the source is available.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE838o" style="
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Sinan Unur (<a href='https://metacpan.org/author/NANIS'>NANIS</a>) decided to try and compile Rakudo Perl with Visual Studio 2013, which Microsoft made freely available.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE80ta" style="
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David Farrell (<a href='https://metacpan.org/author/SILLYMOOS'>SILLYMOOS</a>) suggests that a good way to get started with Perl 6 is by writing one-liners.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE80td" style="
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Sinan Unur (<a href='https://metacpan.org/author/NANIS'>NANIS</a>) demonstrates why we all need to know how to <a href='http://blog.nu42.com/2014/11/youve-gotta-quotemeta.html'>use quotemeta</a>.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE80Jv" style="
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Barbie (<a href='https://metacpan.org/author/BARBIE'>BARBIE</a>) posted his monthly round-up of news related to <a href='http://www.cpantesters.org'>CPAN Testers</a>.
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<div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Misc</div>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE80Jw" style="
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Dan Wright describes the budgeting process of The Perl Foundation.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE83oI" style="
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Peter Baranyi has released the <a href='https://github.com/Gilwyad/mailnesia.com'>source</a> for <a href='http://mailnesia.com/'>mailnesia</a>, a disposable email service.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE83oM" style="
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Rik Signes (<a href='https://metacpan.org/author/RJBS'>RJBS</a>) has released a <a href='https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/Email-MIME-Kit-3.000000-TRIAL'>trial version of Email::MIME::Kit v3</a>, which sorts out encodings, but might temporarily make your life worse, if you were (possibly unknowingly) relying on the previous brokenness.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE80JF" style="
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JT Smith (<a href='https://metacpan.org/author/RIZEN'>RIZEN</a>) has released <a href='https://metacpan.org/pod/Imager::Draw::Hexagon'>Imager::Draw::Hexagon</a>. Given the name, you might be surprised to discover that it's for drawing hexagons using <a href='https://metacpan.org/pod/Imager'>Imager</a>.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE80JI" style="
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Neil Bowers (<a href='https://metacpan.org/author/NEILB'>NEILB</a>) created a simple interface to <a href='http://todoist.com'>todoist.com</a>, an online todolist service. He also finds it weird writing about himself in the third person.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE80JL" style="
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Taiki Kawakami (<a href='https://metacpan.org/author/MOZNION'>MOZNION</a>) has released the first non-developer version of <a href='https://metacpan.org/release/Perl-Lint'>Perl::Lint</a>, which was funded by a previous grant.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE80JM" style="
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David Oswald (<a href='https://metacpan.org/author/DAVIDO'>DAVIDO</a> and <a href='https://metacpan.org/author/INGY'>INGY</a> posted their 5th update on the Inline grant, which mainly covered topics related to module builders.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE8102" style="
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This is your last chance to comment on INGY and David's latest grant proposal. Comments have to be submitted by November 25th.
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<div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Conferences</div>
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<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE8105" style="
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TPF have announced the location of YAPC::NA 2015. Registrations are already being accepted online: <a href='http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/'>YAPC::NA 2015 registration</a>.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE83Fh" style="
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David Oswald (<a href='https://metacpan.org/author/DAVIDO'>DAVIDO</a> introduces the team who will be organising YAPC::NA 2015.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE83Fi" style="
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The videos from the recent LPW are now available online. Start off with <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2IjdFOzVZM&index=16&list=PLxavAW22r8AkOjZQENZzCZZYYgcYAtcg9'>I am developer</a>, which will only take you 5 minutes.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE83Fl" style="
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Mark Keating (oh yeah, no PAUSE id, because he still hasn't released any damn code), posted his thoughts and feelings about the London Perl Workshop 2014. TL;DR: it was awesome, everyone was awesome.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE810c" style="
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The ten most rated Perl questions on stackoverflow last week.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE83Fq" style="
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Niceperl's list of highly-rated modules that saw a release in the last week.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE83Fs" style="
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Newly favourited and most favourited distributions on MetaCPAN.
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<div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Perl Maven Tutorials</div>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE83VM" style="
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Using strftime() in the POSIX module to generate a simple timestamp, for example to use in a logfile.
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<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE810i" style="
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Playing with the <tt>all</tt> function from <a href='https://metacpan.org/pod/List::MoreUtils'>List::MoreUtils</a>.
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<div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Not Perl, but may be of interest</div>
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<p style="margin-left: 1.5em;">
<a href="http://bit.ly/1vE83VS" style="
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Jeffrey Kegler (<a href='https://metacpan.org/author/JKEGL'>JKEGL</a>) compares top-down and bottom-up parsing, and explains why the latter has re-emerged as the approach of choice.
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