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    Issue #184 - 2015-02-02 - Larry gave his talk at FOSDEM
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        Hi,
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        There was lots of buzz around FOSDEM this last week, but not many videos or blog posts to share with you yet. Get blogging, those of you who went!
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        More than 200 people have received their second assignment in the CPAN Pull Request Challenge, and plenty are still working on January's. Some people have dropped out, but others have signed up to start in February. As well as pull requests, lots of blogging going on around it.
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        Editor #3, Neil
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               <a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/vii-cpan-great-modules-released-last.html" style="
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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/2015/01/xiii-cpan-great-modules-released-last.html">Great modules released last week</a>; <a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/cxlv-metacpan-weekly-report-ffiplatypus.html">MetaCPAN weekly report</a>; <a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/clxx-stackoverflow-perl-report.html">StackOverflow Perl report</a>.
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                  ">CPAN Testers monthly report for December</a>
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                   by Barbie                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/BARBIE">BARBIE</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Barbie's monthly round-up of news related to CPAN Testers, which includes plans for the QA hackathon and beyond.
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               <a href="http://devblog.nestoria.com/post/109293093633/module-of-the-month-january-2015-test-deep" style="
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                  ">Nestoria's module of the month for January: Test::Deep</a>
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                 This month Nestoria tip their hat, and their wallet, to <a href="https://metacpan.org/author/RJBS">RJBS</a> for <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Deep">Test::Deep</a>.
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               <a href="http://programming.tudorconstantin.com/2015/01/shock-and-terror-perl-is-readable.html" style="
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                  ">Shock and Terror - Perl IS a readable language</a>
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                   by Tudor Constantin                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/TCONST">TCONST</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Another love-letter to Perl from Tudor, following his previous <a href="http://programming.tudorconstantin.com/2015/01/perl-already-won.html">Perl Already Won</a>.
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                   by Karen Pauley                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Various people are restarting their Ironman blogging this year; Karen has set herself a goal of blogging about Perl at least once a month, and this is her first. TL;DR: she's busy, and gets a lot of email to deal with!
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/tinypig/2015/01/command-line-project-manager-clpm-v101-released.html" style="
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               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by David Bradford                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/DBRADFORD">DBRADFORD</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 David (aka tinypig) announced script for managing files. Old-timers are probably reading clpm as <code>comp.lang.perl.modules</code> or <code>misc</code>.
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               <a href="http://openbedrock.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/cookieless-sessions-automatically-login.html" style="
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                  ">Cookieless Sessions - Automatically Login Your Users</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by Rob Lauer                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Rob shows how you can create one-time user session tokens in <a href="http://twiki.openbedrock.net/twiki/bin/view/Bedrock">Bedrock</a>, for example when someone has forgotten their password.
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               <a href="https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/pericmd-003-whats-wrong-with-getoptlong/" style="
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                  ">What's wrong with Getopt::Long?</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by Steven Haryanto                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/SHARYANTO">SHARYANTO</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Perlancar has started blogging on his own site, and has startd with a series handling command-line arguments. Read <a href="https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2015/02/02/pericmd-004-whats-wrong-with-getoptlong-2/">part 2</a> after this first part on <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Getopt::Long">Getopt::Long</a>.
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ron_savage/2015/01/a-survey-of-table-rendering-packages.html" style="
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                  ">A survey of table rendering packages</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 is trying to build up a list of all 'table rendering packages'. Please let him know if he's missed any. He needs them for the <code>SEE ALSO</code> section of his new <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Text::Table::Manifold">Text::Table::Manifold</a> module.
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/flavio_s_glock/2015/01/a-perl5-to-perl6-translator---update.html" style="
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                  ">a perl5 to perl6 translator - update</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by Flávio Glock                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/FGLOCK">FGLOCK</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 An update from Flávio on perlito, a perl5 to perl6 compiler.
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/shadowcat_mdk/2015/02/fosdem-2015-its-christmas.html" style="
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                  ">Fosdem 2015: It's Christmas!</a>
               <br />               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Mark's notes after attending Larry Wall's talk at FOSDEM. Apparently the videos of talks will go online soon, presumably at <a href="http://video.fosdem.org">video.fosdem.org</a>.
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               <a href="https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/2015-04-gotanda-lands/" style="
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                 The latest news from Perl 6 (apart from, you know, that talk). MoraVM got 20% faster,
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               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/OVID">OVID</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Ovid shared the slides for his FOSDEM talk ahead of time.
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/e_choroba/2015/02/pull-request-challenge-january.html" style="
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                  ">Choroba's report for January</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by E. Choroba                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/CHOROBA">CHOROBA</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Choroba describes his efforts with <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::HTTP::Spore">Net::HTTP::Spore</a>. Not everyone who got a dzil-based dist was happy, but Choroba didn't have any problem.
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               <a href="http://onionstand.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/my-cpan-pull-request-challenge-for.html" style="
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                  ">My CPAN Pull Request Challenge for January: Fuse</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by Breno de Oliveira                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/GARU">GARU</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Garu describes his thoughts and process approaching <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Fuse">Fuse</a>, his assignment for January, resulting in 4 pull requests.
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               <a href="http://cpanpr.tumblr.com/post/109326154178/january-soap-lite" style="
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                  ">MVUET's notes on SOAP-Lite</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by Maxim Vuets                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/MVUETS">MVUETS</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Maxim gives a primer on SOAP and <a href="https://metacpan.org/release/SOAP-Lite" class="distribution">SOAP-Lite</a>, the distribution he got for January.
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               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by Lance Brown                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/LABROWN">LABROWN</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Lance shares his work on <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/String::Random">String::Random</a>: cleaning up the output of <code>perlcritic -1</code> and extending the module so users can provide their own random number generator.
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               <a href="http://neilb.org/2015/02/02/monthly-cpan-pr-graph.html" style="
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                  ">CPAN Pull Requests in January</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by                           <a href="http://neilb.org/">Neil Bowers</a>                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/NEILB">NEILB</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 A first quick analysis on the impact of the Pull Request challenge. In short, a the most CPAN-related pull requests ever, by a comfortable margin.
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               <a href="http://neilb.org/2015/01/29/metacpan-favorites.html" style="
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                  ">The meaning of MetaCPAN favorites</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by                           <a href="http://neilb.org/">Neil Bowers</a>                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/NEILB">NEILB</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Some ruminating on what MetaCPAN's favorites mean, some statistics on how they've been bestowed to date, and how they're being factoring into the scoring of dists for the Pull Request Challenge.
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               <a href="http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/2397/moving-cpan-rt-tickets-to-github-now-improved/" style="
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                  ">Moving CPAN RT tickets to Github, now improved</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by                           <a href="http://www.dagolden.com/">David Golden</a>                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/DAGOLDEN">DAGOLDEN</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 A while back David presented a way to migrate tickets from RT to github issues. Here he describes a more complete solution, which is <a href="https://github.com/dagolden/zzz-rt-to-github">available on github</a>.
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               <a href="https://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/posts/docker-first-impressions/" style="
                  font-size: 18px;
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                  ">Docker: first impressions</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by                           <a href="https://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/">Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt</a>                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/FREW">FREW</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Frew shares his experiences and thoughts using Docker for deployment, having used it for testing for nearly a year. I've no experience with Docker, so he could be full of shit: you'll just have to decide for yourself.
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               <a href="http://blog.twoshortplanks.com/2015/01/27/critical-hit/" style="
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                  ">Critical hit</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by                           <a href="http://twoshortplanks.com/">Mark Fowler</a>                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/MARKF">MARKF</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Jeff Thalhammer gave a talk on <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Critic">Perl::Critic</a> to Albany Perl Mongers. Here Mark shares what he took away from the talk, the biggest win of which was learning about using the <code>only</code> option in a <code>.perlcriticrc</code> file.
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               <a href="http://blog.geekuni.com/2015/02/comparing-booleans-in-perl.html" style="
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                  ">Comparing booleans in Perl</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by Andrew Solomon                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/ILLY">ILLY</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Andrew shows two of the ways you might compare the boolean true-or-false'ness of two scalars in Perl. Hopefully most of the time readability would win out :-)
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               <a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/02/perllint-bug-fixes-and-new-pol.html" style="
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                  ">Perl::Lint Bug Fixes and New Policies</a>
               <br />               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 An update on the <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Lint">Perl::Lint</a> project, which was funded in <a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/02/perllint-bug-fixes-and-new-pol.html">early 2014</a>.
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               <a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/01/january-2015-grant-votes.html" style="
                  font-size: 18px;
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                  ">The Ado web framework wasn't funded</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by Makoto Nozaki                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Two weeks ago we linked to the proposal for the Ado web framework. It wasn't funded, primarily because there's already a lot of choice in Perl web frameworks, so it wasn't clear this was the best use of the funds ($4500 was requested).
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               <a href="http://perlmaven.com/reading-from-a-file-in-scalar-and-list-context" style="
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                  ">Reading from a file in scalar and list context</a>
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/dean/2015/01/sydney-pm-february-2015.html" style="
                  font-size: 18px;
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                  ">Sydney.PM February meetup</a>
               <br />               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Sydney.PM are having a tech talk session on Tuesday 10th February, from 6 to 9:30pm.
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/swiss_perl_workshop/2015/01/swiss-perl-workshop-2015.html" style="
                  font-size: 18px;
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                  ">The Swiss Perl workshop 2015</a>
               <br />               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 The Swiss Perl Workshop will be held in Olten on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th August 2015.
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                  ">Other Perl events</a>
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                 Lots of other Perl workshops and coneference are now listed
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