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    Issue #178 - 2014-12-22 - Outreach program for women
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        Olaf and the MetaCPAN project are taking on two more interns for the GNOME outreach program for women. Thank you Olaf & Co.
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        The White Camel Awards for 2014 were announced this week, and I was humbled.
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2014/12/my-perl-recruitment-thoughts.html" style="
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                  ">My Perl recruitment thoughts</a>
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                   by brian d foy                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/BDFOY">BDFOY</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 brian posted his thoughts on perl and recruitment, in response to <a href="http://perlhacks.com/2014/12/perl-recruitment-thoughts/">Dave's post last week</a>. Hard to distil down to a pithy one-liner, but here's one good soundbite: "Pay doesn't matter if you suck".
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2014/12/ziprecruiter-wants-you.html" style="
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                   by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/OVID">OVID</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 <a href="https://www.ziprecruiter.com">ZipRecruiter</a> is a job board startup based in California, and they're looking for Perl developers. A few people you might have heard of already work / contract there, and they allow remote work.
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/pinkhas_nisanov/2014/12/timtowtdi---matching-regular-expressions-with-events.html" style="
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                  ">Matching regular expressions with events</a>
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                   by                           <a href="http://nisanov.com">Pinkhas Nisanov</a>                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/PINKHASN">PINKHASN</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Pinkhas introduces his new module <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Regexp::SAR">Regexp::SAR</a>, based on his own regexp engine, which lets him trigger events for multiple pattern matches. Written in C/XS.
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                   by                           <a href="http://techblog.babyl.ca/">Yanick Champoux</a>                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/YANICK">YANICK</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Dave's released a trial version of <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Params::Validate">Params::Validate</a>, which allows validation callbacks to die in order to provide a custom error message or exception object. If you use it, he'd like you to test this version and report any problems please. <a href="http://techblog.babyl.ca/entry/fun-with-pod">Fun in POD-land</a> Yanick goes to town about his new craziness, <a href="https://github.com/yanick/Pod-Knit">Pod::Knit</a>, which you can get from github for now. It involves pod, XML, sausages, knitting and dancing kittens. I made one of those up.
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                   by Miguel Prz                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/NICEPERL">NICEPERL</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Miguel Prz (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/NICEPERL">NICEPERL</a>)'s regular lists: <a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/vii-cpan-great-modules-released-last.html">Great modules released last week</a>; <a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/cxxxix-metacpan-weekly-report.html">MetaCPAN weekly report</a>; <a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/clxiv-stackoverflow-perl-report.html">StackOverflow Perl report</a>.
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2014/12/the-2014-white-camel-awards.html" style="
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                  ">The 2014 White Camel Awards</a>
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                   by brian d foy                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/BDFOY">BDFOY</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 The Perl Foundation has announced the recipients for the 15th year of the White Camel Awards: Amalia Pomian for Perl community, VM Brasseur for Perl user groups, and Neil Bowers for Perl advocacy. Congratulations to Amalia and VM!
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/olaf_alders/2014/12/metacpan-welcomes-our-newest-opfw-interns.html" style="
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                  ">MetaCPAN Welcomes our Newest OPfW Interns</a>
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                 The MetaCPAN project is taking on two interns, <a href="https://github.com/rose">Rose Ames</a> and <a href="https://github.com/andreeap">Andreea Pirvulescu</a>, as part of the <a href="http://gnome.org/opw/">GNOME outreach program for women</a>.
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/jt_smith/2014/12/michael-mcclennen-gave-this-talk-at-madmongers-last-week-it-is.html" style="
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                  ">Implementing web data services</a>
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                   by JT Smith                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/RIZEN">RIZEN</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Michael McClennen gave a talk at MadMongers last week, about implementing web data services in Perl.
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ron_savage/2014/12/a-note-about-parsing-graphviz-dot-files.html" style="
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                  ">A Note About Parsing Graphviz DOT files</a>
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                   by                           <a href="http://savage.net.au">Ron Savage</a>                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/RSAVAGE">RSAVAGE</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Ron has released new versions of his <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/GraphViz2::Marpa">GraphViz2::Marpa</a> and <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/GraphViz2::Marpa::PathUtils">GraphViz2::Marpa::PathUtils</a> modules. <a href="http://graphviz.org">Graphviz</a> is the most widely used toolkit for displaying directed graphs, and <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Marpa::R2">Marpa::R2</a> is a modern parsing toolkit for Perl.
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2014/12/cpan-testers-from-github.html" style="
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                   by brian d foy                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/BDFOY">BDFOY</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 brian would like to see the love child of Travis and CPAN Testers: getting CPAN Testers results when you push a new version of your distribution to github.
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/alex1/2014/12/perltk-spreadsheet-editor.html" style="
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               <br />               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Alex is trying to create an Excel-style spreadsheet in Perl/Tk, and wonders if anyone else has tried such a thing.
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                  ">When bits don't stick</a>
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                   by Sinan Unur                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/NANIS">NANIS</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Sinan presents more portability bugs he's found in Perl modules, and promises he'll submit patches.
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               <a href="http://perltricks.com/article/140/2014/12/15/A-Hackerspace-Webcam" style="
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               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by                           <a href="http://www.wumpus-cave.net">Timm Murray</a>                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/TMURRAY">TMURRAY</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Setting up a hackerspace webcam using a RaspberryPi and Perl.
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               <a href="http://blog.yapcna.org/2014/12/15/yapcna2015-slc-call-for-papers-is-open/" style="
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               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by David Oswarld                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/DAVIDO">DAVIDO</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 YAPC::NA 2015 is in Salt Lake City, and the call for papers is now open. Your deadline is January 15th.
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               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by brian d foy                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/BDFOY">BDFOY</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 brian's notes from the hack day before <a href="http://event.yapcrussia.org/saintperl6/">Saint Perl</a>. Note: brian's post isn't in Russian, but that other page is.
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/enkidu/2014/12/thank-you-glen-hinkle.html" style="
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                  ">Thank You, Glen Hinkle!</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by                           <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/enkidu/">Enkidu</a>                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 This is a great blog post. Enkidu shares his enthusiasm for learning about <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious">Mojolicious</a> from <a href="https://metacpan.org/author/TEMPIRE">Glen Hinkle</a>'s <a href="http://mojocasts.com/e5">Mojocasts</a>. What in the Perl world makes you happy?  Blog about it!
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2014/12/new-dancer2-release-already-waiting-on-cpan-0157000.html" style="
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                  ">New Dancer2 release</a>
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                   by                           <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/">Sawyer X</a>                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/XSAWYERX">XSAWYERX</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 In addition to all his advent posts, Sawyer announced a new release of Dancer 2. I'm starting to suspect that Sawyer is the name of a collective in Amsterdam.
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               <a href="http://inline.ouistreet.com/node/u2gc.html" style="
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               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by David Oswarld                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/DAVIDO">DAVIDO</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 David and INGY have been wrapping up their work on the Inline grant. <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Inline::CPP">Inline::CPP</a> support is now working well across varied platforms, <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Module::Build">Module::Build</a> based distributions are now supported, and a lot of testing/debugging has taken place.
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               <a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/12/maintaining-the-perl-5-core-re-12.html" style="
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                 Dave Mitchell's monthly report for his work on the Perl 5 core, funded by a grant. The main item of note was his awesome work on a <a href="http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/11/msg222802.html">benchmarking tool</a>.
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                 A range of topics, and not just from Mark: <a href="http://perladvent.org/2014/2014-12-15.html">MetaCPAN::Client</a>, <a href="http://perladvent.org/2014/2014-12-16.html">Code::TidyAll</a>, <a href="http://perladvent.org/2014/2014-12-17.html">Test::Requires</a>, <a href="http://perladvent.org/2014/2014-12-18.html">Data::ICal::DateTime</a>, <a href="http://perladvent.org/2014/2014-12-19.html">Capture::Tiny</a>, <a href="http://perladvent.org/2014/2014-12-20.html">Struct::Dumb</a>, <a href="http://perladvent.org/2014/2014-12-21.html">App::ack</a>.
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               <a href="http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/" style="
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                 <a href="http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/quoting-on-steroids/">Quoting on Steroids</a>, <a href="http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/day-17-three-strange-loops/">Three strange loops</a>, <a href="http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/moarvm-internals-for-the-brave-and-curious/">MoarVM Internals for the Brave (and Curious)</a>, <a href="http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/19/day-19-snow-white-and-the-seven-conditionals/">Snow white and the seven conditionals</a>, <a href="http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/20/perl6-roles/">Helping Santa with Roles</a>, <a href="http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/day-21-community-smoke-testing/">Community smoke testing</a>. <a href="http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/day.15.bioinformatics.and.the.joy.of.perl6/">Bioinformatics and the joy of Perl 6</a>,
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               <a href="http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2014" style="
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                 Seven more articles on the Catalyst web framework: <a href="http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2014/15">Porting Reddit's URL Structure to Catalyst Using Chaining</a>, <a href="http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2014/16">Instant database admin tool with RapidApp and rdbic.pl</a>, <a href="http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2014/17">The Plack::App::RapidApp::rDbic interface to RapidApp</a>, <a href="http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2014/18">Redispatching to a public path</a>, <a href="http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2014/19">Another Take on redispatching</a>, <a href="http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2014/20">Application-wide access to the context ($c) for the impatient</a>, <a href="http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2014/21">The Future of Catalyst, or the Fifty Year Framework</a>.
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               <a href="http://advent.perldancer.org/2014" style="
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                 Seven more articles from Sawyer on the Dancer web framework: <a href="http://advent.perldancer.org/2014/15">Outreach Program for Women (OPW) and Dancer</a>, <a href="http://advent.perldancer.org/2014/16">Command line dancing</a>, <a href="http://advent.perldancer.org/2014/17">Hidden feature: Auto Pages</a>, <a href="http://advent.perldancer.org/2014/18">The method of the setup method</a>, <a href="http://advent.perldancer.org/2014/19">Authentication for the masses</a>, <a href="http://advent.perldancer.org/2014/20">Meddling with Middlewares</a>, <a href="http://advent.perldancer.org/2014/21">Middlewared Dancer: our usage of middlewares</a>.
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               <a href="http://shadow.cat/blog/matt-s-trout/" style="
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               <br />               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Five more mini reviews from Matt Trout: <a href="http://shadow.cat/blog/matt-s-trout/mstpan-11/">Distribution building</a>, <a href="http://shadow.cat/blog/matt-s-trout/mstpan-12/">Object orientation</a>, <a href="http://shadow.cat/blog/matt-s-trout/mstpan-13/">SOAP</a>, <a href="http://shadow.cat/blog/matt-s-trout/mstpan-14/">Exporting</a>, <a href="http://shadow.cat/blog/matt-s-trout/mstpan-15/">Email</a>.
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/perlancar/2014/12/perlancars-2014-advent-calendar.html" style="
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                  ">Perlancar's advent calendar</a>
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                 Seven more of Perlancar's modules released in 2014: <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/perlancar/2014/12/day-16-making-tab-completion-setup-seamless-for-users-appshcompgen.html">App::shcompgen</a>, <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/perlancar/2014/12/day-17-checking-process-existence-and-listing-processes-procfind.html">Proc::Find</a>, <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/perlancar/2014/12/day-18-checking-unsaved-files-fileunsaved.html">File::Unsaved</a>, <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/perlancar/2014/12/day-19-tracing-your-perl-programs-execution-appplstrace.html">App::plstrace</a>, <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/perlancar/2014/12/day-20-creating-test-databases-testwithdb.html">Test::WithDB</a>, <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/perlancar/2014/12/day-21-checking-if-a-string-contains-shell-wildcard-stringwildcardbash.html">String::Wildcard::Bash</a>.
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               <a href="http://perlmaven.com/psgi" style="
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               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by                           <a href="http://szabgab.com/">Gabor Szabo</a>                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/SZABGAB">SZABGAB</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 A collection of Perl Maven articles about PSGI, the interface for writing modern web applications in Perl.
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                  ">How to set default values in Perl</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by                           <a href="http://szabgab.com/">Gabor Szabo</a>                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/SZABGAB">SZABGAB</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Do you know how to give a default value to a scalar variable? What about a hash?
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