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Issue #188 - 2015-03-02 - The First Days of Christmas Scheduled to be in August
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This week, we have the releases of two of the big web frameworks, a new Strawberry Perl, and invitations to upcoming Hackatons both for Perl 5 and Perl 6. For the latter, the pressure is building: the August Hackaton in Switzerland is touted as the last one before the dev version of Perl 6 1.0 goes out. Enjoy! ~ `/anick
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Graham would like to provide a warm, cozy new home for a handful of modules. But, of course, this can't happen without the blessing of their original owners, so he's sending an announcement flare.
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Feel like celebrating Christmas in August? Then you might entertain the notion of joining this Hackaton, most probably the last one before Perl6 get officially released.
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A new major release of Mojolicious is out! Massive rewrites, support for things like IPv6, SOCKS5, and non-blocking name resolution, this is clearly not your grampa web framework.
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by Damian Conway (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/DCONWAY">DCONWAY</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Damian is going to Norway, and he's going to be a busy, busy man. Lots of talks and presentations on his plate for the days to come.
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A new version of Strawberry Perl is out. Amongst other goodies, this version comes with all the major DBI drivers -- MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL -- working out of the box.
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Perl 5, Perl 6, hardware, there will be hackatons for them all at YAPC::NA. If you plan to join the fun, RSVP so that the organizers know what to expect.
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If a role is defining a private method that it is not using itself, Perl::Critic is wont to spuriously tut-tut at you. Or was, as Mark decided that enough was enough, and crafted a patch that takes care of that.
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How to create Scalable Vector Graphics on the fly and serve it using Plack/PSGI?
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