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Issue #183 - 2015-01-25 - Glyphs and Badges
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We're already at our fourth edition for this year. January is almost over -- that sound you're hearing is the PR Challenge contestants hurrying to get their patches ready before February rolls in. In other news, we have some visual candy for you this month: David Farrell brings us some new nifty Perl-themed glyphs, and mdk crafted a badge for all the CPAN testers out there. Enjoy! ~ `/anick
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by David Farrell (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/SILLYMOOS">SILLYMOOS</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Thanks to David, you can now augment your herd of glyphs with Perl's well-known sigils -- the camel, the onion and Camelia the butterfly, they are now available in beautifully scalable svg glory.
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<a href="http://neilb.org/2015/01/19/prc-scoring.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">
For the PR Challenge, Neil had to come up with a way to rank CPAN distributions and figure out which ones are the best candidates for the challenge. He explains here the heuristics he's using to come up with that score.
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<a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2015/01/the-perl-qa-hackathon-2015.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">
"What is the Perl QA HAckathon, and why should I care?" Good questions, and master Bowers provides equally good answers.
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<a href="http://reneeb-perlblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/yak-shaving-january-2015.html" style="
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by Renee Baecker (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/RENEEB">RENEEB</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Rare indeed are the developer tasks for which the path to realization is a straight one. Renée's journey in January seems to have been particularly sinuous.
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<a href="http://shadow.cat/blog/mark-keating/2015/04-cpantesters/" style="
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CPAN Testers, integral to the success of Perl as an ecosystem, but seldom actively noticed. To let those unsung heroes taste a little bit of the glamour, mdk proposes a series of smoking signs.
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by Krasimir Berov (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/BEROV">BEROV</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Krasimir submitted a grant proposal for Ado, a dependency-light application and framework for web projects based on Mojolicious. Here, he makes his case for it, as well as present the tenets he's holding its code to.
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<a href="http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/2390/setting-up-a-perl-development-environment-with-plenv/" style="
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David gives a straight-up, no-nonsense set of steps to get you a plenv-based Perl environment up and running in, oh, probably less than 10 minutes.
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by Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/FREW">FREW</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Could have been called "Embrassing the Future(s)", as fREW leverages these constructs for asynchronous programming.
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by brian d foy (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/BDFOY">BDFOY</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Using the postfix deferences that came with Perl 5.20? If you do, you might notice that Perl::MinimumVersion and Perl::MinimumVersion::Fast are a bit sloppy and think your code is respectively vintage 5.004 or 5.008. This irks brian, so he rolled up his sleeves and dove into the C++-fueled heart of darkness.
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<a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/graham_ollis/2015/01/practical-ffi-with-platypus.html" style="
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by Graham Ollis (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/PLICEASE">PLICEASE</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Graham previously extolled the potential of FFI (Foreign Function Interface) at YAPC::NA 2014. Here he introduces FFI::Platypus, which adds the 'F' of friendliness to the mix.
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'Yertl' suspiciously resemble the sound a strangled dba makes. It's also a new set of command-line tools to deal with database ETL operations that looks very promising.
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<a href="http://plainblackguy.tumblr.com/post/108648992051/i-gave-this-talk-about-automated-scoring-systems" style="
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We can only surmise tha the talk auto-gave itself a 5 stars rating.
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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">
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by Sinan Unur (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/NANIS">NANIS</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
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