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Issue #175 - 2014-12-01 - Advent is here again!
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First of all, let me apologize to those who are reading the text version of the newsletter. Due to a bug and my impatience, last the newsletter was missing the text version. Sorry for that.
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Advent is here! While you might not celebrate the Christian Advent, it became a tradition in the Perl community to create Advent calendars. This means 24 articles in 24 days. We won't be able to cover all the articles published in the Advent calendars, but you can see a list of them in the Advent section. You can also follow the one maintained by Len Jaffe who has been collecting the various Advent calendars for years. Which brings me to another point. All of these calendars are written by volunteer contributors. Not necessarily core developers. You could also contribute an article!
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This is the first episode in <a href="http://bit.ly/1z72lsT">perlancar's 2014 Advent Calendar</a> introducing to a selection of 24 modules he wrote in 2014.
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This is sort of 'the' <a href="http://bit.ly/1z72lt4">Perl Advent calendar</a>. This article is about temporary directories.
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Finally, if you are really serious, you could also follow the Advent Calendar of the Seoul Perl Mongers. In Korean.
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Passing parameters to the template() function. Conditionals in Template::Toolkit.
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Nikos Vaggalis looked at Mojolicious' history: why Sebastian left Catalyst for Mojolicious, present: what does the framework actually do, the project's future: Sebastian's long-term plans.
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In many applications either load time or memory usage is important. This articles shows the technique with 3 modules used for Object Oriented programming in Perl.
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