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Issue #185 - 2015-02-09 - Interviews with RJBS and TimToady
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During FOSDEM Miyagawa has conducted interviews with Ricardo Signes (RJBS), the release manager of Perl 5 (also known as the Pumpkin of Perl 5), and Larry Wall (TimToady), the creator of Perl.
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Both interviews are available in the Rebuild podcast as downloadable mp3 files. If you don't have time during the day, you could download the files and listen to them during your commute.
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<a href="http://perltricks.com/article/148/2015/2/2/Time--Moment-can-save-time" style="
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by brian d foy (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/BDFOY">BDFOY</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
DateTime is perfect, but huge and slow. Time::Moment has certain limitations, but it small and blazing fast.
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<a href="http://blog.nu42.com/2015/02/building-libexpat-and-xmlparser-on.html" style="
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by Sinan Unur (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/NANIS">NANIS</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
One of the hard things when building a Perl distribution is including various external libraries. For example libexpat and libgd. This is what Sinan faced the week.
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<a href="http://rebuild.fm/78/" style="
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by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/MIYAGAWA">MIYAGAWA</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa interviewed Larry Wall. (podcast, mp3)
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<a href="http://rebuild.fm/77/" style="
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by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/MIYAGAWA">MIYAGAWA</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa interviewed Ricardo Signes. (podcast, mp3)
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<a href="http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/2402/sometimes-it-really-is-a-bug-in-perl/" style="
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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">
Watch literal strings ("Hello world") DISAPPEAR and become undefined
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<a href="http://dj.id.au/" style="
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20 min screencast by the Perl DJ
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<a href="http://perltricks.com/article/149/2015/2/6/What-s-new-on-CPAN---January-2015" style="
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by David Farrell (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/SILLYMOOS">SILLYMOOS</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
The already tradition monthly report of David listing a selected list of newly uploaded CPAN modules.
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<a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/graham_knop/2015/02/moo-20.html" style="
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by Graham Knop (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/HAARG">HAARG</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
The next stable release of Moo will be version 2.0, and will include some incompatible changes. Please, go and test your Moo-using code now!
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<a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/02/maintaing-perl-5-grant-report-1.html" style="
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by Tony Cook (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/TONYC">TONYC</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
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<a href="http://rakudo.org/2015/02/07/announce-rakudo-star-release-2015-01/" style="
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<a href="http://perl6maven.com/introduction-to-perl6-screencast-arrays" 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">
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<a href="https://justrakudoit.wordpress.com/2015/02/02/rakudo-to-do-list/" style="
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by Solomon Foster </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
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<a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/02/a-little-thing-to-love-about-perl-6-and-cobol.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">
The article shows the result of the following expression: 1/(.1 + .2 - .3) and why is not what you expect.
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<a href="http://code-maven.com/" 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">
Yours truly has opened a new playground for himself experimenting with Node.js (JavaScript), Flask (Python), and Ruby. (For now)
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<a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/02/xiv-cpan-great-modules-released-last.html" style="
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<a href="http://perlmaven.com/create-an-excel-file-with-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">
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<a href="http://perlmaven.com/how-to-insert-an-array-into-another-array-in-perl" style="
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A lovely error in Perl, but where does package 1 come from? And what happens when it is package 2 ? Or 3 ?
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by Natalya Savenkova </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
A guest post on the Perl Maven site with some advice how to improve your language skills
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<a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/awwaiid_brock_wilcox/2015/02/dc-baltimore-perl-workshop-2015---call-for-speakers.html" style="
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The workshop will be held on Saturday April 11 2015 in Silver Spring, MD.
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<a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/yapceu/2015/02/website-sponsorship-and-the-walls.html" style="
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The website for the upcoming YAPC Europe in Granada was launched.
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<a href="https://nxadm.wordpress.com/2015/02/02/perlfosdem-thanks/" style="
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by <a href="https://nxadm.wordpress.com/">Claudio Ramirez</a> (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/NXADM">NXADM</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
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