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Issue #179 - 2014-12-29 - Getting ready for New Year's resolution
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It is really strange. Now that both Yanick Champoux and Neil Bowers edit the Perl Weekly my appearances here got quite rare. I guess for the better. So let's thank them for this great year! Please, flood their inboxes with good wishes!
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I am really looking for the start of the next year. I have a lot of plans with my web sites and with my open source applications. Actually I could not wait and have already started to publish on the Perl 6 Maven site. (See below.)
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Now I don't know what about you, but if you are looking for something that will put you in some kind of a rhythm, you could join the CPAN Challenge Neil announced. It is both a great way to contribute back to the open source code pool of Perl and a great way to improve yourself. (see below).
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See you on the other side of New Year's Eve!
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by Mark Fowler (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/MARKF">MARKF</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
An article that was left out from the Perl Advent calendar telling you to use Regexp::Debugger because it is awesome!
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by Barbie (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/BARBIE">BARBIE</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Links to talks about CPAN Testers at the LPW. Another Metabase overflow. An Admin-site bug.
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<a href="http://techblog.babyl.ca/entry/merry-xmas" style="
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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">
This is an Advent Calendar overflow about handling the favorite web-scale data structure during the XMas Holidays and after them. The think is, that tools like this and articles like this should reach people outside the Perl echo chamber.
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<a href="http://jjnapiorkowski.typepad.com/modern-perl/2014/12/perl-catalyst-590079-development-004-holland-on-cpan.html" style="
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by John Napiorkowski (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/JJNAPIORK">JJNAPIORK</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
After quite a long silence, finally there is a newly announced version of Catalyst. I wonder if one could combine helping Catalyst move forward with the Pull-request challenge of Neil Bowers?
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<a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2014/12/you-have-nothing-to-lose-but-your-chains.html" style="
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by Joel Berger (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/JBERGER">JBERGER</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Joel explains that there are two different method chaining styles. In one case methods return the objects they acted upon allowing the user to call another method of the same class. The other one is when a method returns an object of some different type so that you can chain a method of that object after the first call. I don't see a huge difference, but he gives an example for the latter in the Mojolicious world.
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<a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2014/12/take-the-2015-cpan-pull-request-challenge.html" style="
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by <a href="http://neilb.org/">Neil Bowers</a> (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/NEILB">NEILB</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
It is still not too late to get to the starting line. In order to encourage cooperation with other CPAN authors, Neil is organizing a little competition: Will you be able to handle it?
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<a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/aristotle/2014/12/speaker-for-the-dead.html" style="
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by Aristotle Pagaltzis (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/ARISTOTLE">ARISTOTLE</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
In contrast to the Challenge above, Aristotle shows how he wrapped up and deleted a CPAN module that is probably not going to be useful for anyone anymore. But maybe...
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<a href="http://g14n.info/2014/12/the-camel-replicates/" style="
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by Gianluca Casati (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/FIBO">FIBO</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
What do you do if the server you need to install CPAN modules to does not have Internet access? You create a Mini-CPAN on another machine and then somehow transfer it to the server without Internet access.
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<a href="http://www.wumpus-cave.net/2014/12/24/newwwwwww-quadcopter/" style="
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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">
No Perl code here, but now that the Wumpus Cave received a new QuadCopter, I am expecting lots of new Perl code and articles flying above our heads.
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<a href="http://inline.ouistreet.com/node/u2gc.html" style="
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by David Oswarld (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/DAVIDO">DAVIDO</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
They promised it by Christmas and they have delivered it by Christmas. This is the new way to write Perl XS modules. See also their previous <a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/12/grant-report-inlinecpp---decem.html">progress report</a>.
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<a href="http://rakudo.org/2014/12/26/announce-rakudo-star-release-2014-12/" style="
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by Moritz Lenz (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/MORITZ">MORITZ</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
New release of Rakudo Start - the package that contains the most recent version of the Perl 6 compiler, documentation and some extra modules. And then a quick <a href="http://rakudo.org/2014/12/27/update-to-rakudo-star-release-2014-12/">update</a> with 2014.12.1
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by <a href="http://szabgab.com/">Gabor Szabo</a> (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/SZABGAB">SZABGAB</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
After another long break, I have updated the code behind the Perl 6 Maven site and started to update the tutorial as well. This is the first page showing how to install the newly release Rakudo Star on OSX and Linux.
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<a href="http://blog.nu42.com/2014/12/utf-8-output-in-cmdexe-perl-5-vs-perl-6.html" style="
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by Sinan Unur (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/NANIS">NANIS</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Does Perl 6 think that everything is Unix? Or is it just the current version of the implementation?
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<a href="http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/" style="
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<a href="http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/22/the-cool-subset-of-main/">The Cool subset of MAIN.</a>, <a href="http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/webscale-sorting-of-the-sleepy-kind/">Webscale sorting of the sleepy kind</a>, <a href="http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2014/12/24/day-24-seeing-wrong-right/">Seeing Wrong Right</a>
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<a href="http://blog.twoshortplanks.com/2014/12/23/perl-advent-calendar-2014-stats/" style="
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by Mark Fowler (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/MARKF">MARKF</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
This is a meta article about the Perl Advent Calendar. Most importantly, the Elves beat Santa by 44:38.
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<a href="http://perladvent.org/2014/" style="
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<a href="http://perladvent.org/2014/2014-12-22.html">A Holiday PAPR-ation</a>, <a href="http://perladvent.org/2014/2014-12-23.html">CLDR TL;DR</a>, <a href="http://perladvent.org/2014/2014-12-24.html">Out of Order Perl</a>
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<a href="http://advent.perldancer.org/2014" style="
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<a href="http://advent.perldancer.org/2014/22">The Dancer community policy</a>, <a href="http://advent.perldancer.org/2014/23">Dynamic routing in Dancer is dynamic</a>, <a href="http://advent.perldancer.org/2014/24">Past and future</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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by Steven Haryanto (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/SHARYANTO">SHARYANTO</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
<a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/perlancar/2014/12/day-22-safer-system-alternative-sysrunsafer.html">Safer system() alternative (Sys::Run::Safer)</a>, <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/perlancar/2014/12/day-23-appchart-and-textchart.html">App::chart and Text::chart</a>, <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/perlancar/2014/12/day-24-games.html">Games!</a>
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<a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.com/" style="
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by Miguel Prz (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/NICEPERL">NICEPERL</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
<a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2014/12/viii-cpan-great-modules-released-last.html">CPAN great modules released last week</a>; <a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2014/12/cxl-metacpan-weekly-report-structdumb.html">Metacpan weekly report - Struct::Dumb & Statistics::NiceR</a>; <a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2014/12/clxv-stackoverflow-perl-report.html">Stackoverflow perl report</a>
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<a href="http://perlmaven.com/how-to-grep-a-file-using-perl" style="
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by <a href="http://szabgab.com/">Gabor Szabo</a> (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/SZABGAB">SZABGAB</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Writing a Perl replacement of the Unix grep command does not have much value, unless you do something much better, or if you want to reimplement the Unix commands in Perl. Nevertheless it can be a good exercise, and it can be a learning or teaching aid.
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<a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/12/yapcna2015-call-for-papers---n.html" style="
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The new deadline is March 1st so you have 2 more month to have a last-minute rush of submitting your talk proposal.
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