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Issue #186 - 2015-02-16 - Which language will be popular 5 years from now?
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"deployable" is a handful of tools to help you with remote management of multiple servers. It was born when there was no Puppet or Chef in town.
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by Andrew Solomon (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/ILLY">ILLY</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
In this survey that you can complete within 1 minute, Andrew is trying to predict which languages will be popular 5 years from now.
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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">
Infinity is a small IT consultancy with HQ in New York and remote employees based all over the US and Canada.
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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">
STRATO is an ISO 27001-certified hosting provider with its headquarters in Germany.
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by Tina Müller (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/TINITA">TINITA</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Cyrus AG is now one of the best-known IT training companies in Germany.
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<a href="http://perltricks.com/article/151/2015/2/9/Build-a-Reddit-bot-with-Perl" style="
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Reddit is link-sharing and discussing site running on some open source Python code. It has so called 'subredits' that are categories for sharing links related to a specific topic. Posting an article on Reddit can get hundreds or thousands of additional visitors to an article, and via their aggregation it can expose the Perl-related activity to other communities as well.
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Some secret sauce from Net-A-Porter giving us a peek behind the curtain of the fashion design. Who said you cannot combine beauty with Perl?
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"Percolation is search inverted: instead of finding docs which match a particular query, it finds queries which match a particular document."
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In the real world of Perl programmers you often need to work in strange environments. For some reason, unlike with Java programmers, they expect that you work around all the obstacles they put in front of you. And you do, because you are a Perl programmer who can work around strange issues. (Which of course reinforces their unreasonable expectations, but that's a different story.)
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What do you do if your old web application that was designed to accept a few hits an hour, suddenly gets hundreds of hits every minute from unfriendly Python scripts?
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<a href="http://perltricks.com/article/152/2015/2/11/A-Perl-Review-of-the-ODROID-C1" 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">
The ODROID-C1 is a competitor of the Raspberry Pi, a cheap "System on a Chip device". Timm Murray temporarily out of the Wumpus cave took a look at it from the perspective of a Perl developer.
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Pivot a multi-row/multi-column table, 4X4 in size for example, containing name-value pairs. Code should account for larger table sizes with any number of name-value pairs. Numbering the pairs is optional but encouraged for readability.
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<a href="http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/youre-in-a-space-of-twisty-little-mazes-all-alike" style="
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A 4x4 grid has 24 internal walls. In the power set of these, some of the members are "mazes", by definition grids with a unique path between every two squares. how many mazes exist?
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<a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/02/xv-cpan-great-modules-released-last-week.html" style="
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<a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/02/cxlvii-metacpan-weekly-report-moo.html" style="
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<a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/02/clxxii-stackoverflow-perl-report.html" style="
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<a href="http://perlmaven.com/using-the-built-in-debugger-of-perl-as-repl" 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">
An earlier screencast re-posted on the Perl Maven site.
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<a href="http://perlmaven.com/select-random-elements-from-a-weigthed-list" style="
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Given N objects and N weights, select an element with its weighted probability.
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<a href="http://perlmaven.com/scalable-vector-graphics-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">
Some simple examples showing how to use the SVG Perl module to create Vector Graphics. Then, a related article was published on the Code Maven site using <a href"http://code-maven.com/svg-with-javascript">JavaScript to create SVG images</a>, and there is even the beginning of an <a href="http://code-maven.com/svg">SVG tutorial with exercises</a>.
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<a href="http://perlmaven.com/beginner-perl-maven-video-course" style="
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The first chapter of the Beginner Perl Maven video course has been freed. It is available from the Perl Maven site and also on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw7UYp3N0eUYiICZUFR3p299TvjXZ4zFj">YouTube</a>
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<a href="http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/" style="
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The organizers of YAPC::NA have put out a <a href="http://www.yapcna.org/yn2015/news/1298">call for master classes</a> and they sent out an e-mail with information about <a href="http://mail.yapcna.org/pipermail/announce_yapcna.org/2015-February/000002.html">hotel reservation</a> with a call for talks. I don't recall any announcement, announcing the announcement list, but if you managed to follow this sentence so far, and if you are interested in YAPC::NA related news,then you migh sign up <a href="http://mail.yapcna.org/mailman/listinfo/announce_yapcna.org">here</a>. The hotel information page mentions that there is an early-bird discount for the hotel rooms. (Unfortunately the talks won't be announced by that.)
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