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Issue #228 - 2015-12-07 - Advent Season
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With December comes back a beloved Perl tradition: the Advent calendars. In other seasonal news, Christmas is getting ever closer for Perl 6. And on a slightly more "bah humbug"ish note, the various Perl-related Kickstarters aren't doing so well right now. But hey, this season is known for its miracles, so... we never know. In the meantime, enjoy! ~ `/anick
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<a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/peter_rabbitson/2015/12/suspending-efforts-on-my-riba2016-crowdfunding-campaign-looking-forward-to-my-own-xmas.html" style="
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by Peter Rabbitson (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/RIBASUSHI">RIBASUSHI</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
An update on Peter's Kickstarter to be able to focus on Open Source/CPAN development for 2016.
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<a href="http://www.catonmat.net/blog/browserling-product-hunt/" style="
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by <a href="http://www.catonmat.net/">Peteris Krumins</a> (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/PKRUMINS">PKRUMINS</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Peteris's Browserling (a cross-browser testing solution) was featured by ProductHunt.com, a site featuring and ranking different software. Good to know Browersling is doing good; interesting to learn about that ProductHunt site thingie.
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by <a href="http://perltricks.com/">David Farrell</a> (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/DFARRELL">DFARRELL</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
David made a cool "Larry Wall, hero of the revolution" t-shirt (if you want one, the Kickstarter is still ongoing, hurry!). He shares here the how he uses Gimp and Inkscape to create the t-shirt's picture.
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<a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/12/the-veure-mmorpg-saga-continues.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">
Ovid teases us with can be described as a tantalizing textual trailer to his upcoming space MMORPG, Veure.
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by Dave Cross (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/DAVECROSS">DAVECROSS</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
The London Perl Workshop is going to happen in a few days, and it looks like it's going to be awesome.
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A new release of MongoDB is coming up. And a new trial version of its driver is already accessible on CPAN. MongoDB peeps you know what that means.
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Either for abyss-level bug hunting, or interactive toying with the language, REPLs are invaluable. Matt reviews some of the proeminent Perl REPL out there for us.
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There is an an optimization coming for Perl 5.24 that might boost some benchmarks by 25% to 40%. Sinan gives the nitty gritty details of this upcoming nitro injection to the Perl engine.
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A new module that turns JSON schemas into Type::Tiny types.
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A grant to merge stabilize and merge Test::Stream and Test::Simple into perl-blead has been approved.
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<a href="https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/2015-4849-arrays-shape-up-curli-lands-and-supply-splits/" style="
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by <a href="https://6guts.wordpress.com/">Jonathan Worthington</a> (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/JONATHAN">JONATHAN</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Last time, John was counting 40 tickets standing between us and Christmas. Now the number is down to 20.
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<a href="http://perladvent.org/2015/" style="
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by Miguel Prz (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/NICEPERL">NICEPERL</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
<a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/12/lvii-cpan-great-modules-released-last.html">Great modules released last week</a>;<br><a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/12/clxxxix-metacpan-weekly-report-paws.html">MetaCPAN weekly report</a>;<br><a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/12/ccxiv-stackoverflow-perl-report.html">StackOverflow Perl report</a>.
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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/recent" style="
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Are you looking for a place to contribute. Here is the 100 most recently uploaded modules that are either missing the link to their repository, have no Travis-CI enabled, or have no license in the META files.
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