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    Issue #238 - 2016-02-15 - The QA Hackathon is looking for sponsorship
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        The Perl QA Hackathon brings together the lead developers for the Perl toolchain.
It's going to be in the UK this year. It's funded through sponsorship, so why not
see if your employer can support it. Every little helps!
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        How do you think authors and related users should be acknowledged when looking
at modules on MetaCPAN? This topic generated a fair bit of discussion this week.
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        Neil
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2016/02/announcing-the-perl-qa-hackathon-2016.html" style="
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                  ">Announcing the Perl QA Hackathon 2016</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">
                 The announcement for this year's QA Hackathon, which is being held in Rugby (in the UK), from Thursday 21st April through Sunday 24th April.
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               <a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/yapcna2016-call-for-speakers.html" style="
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                  ">YAPC::NA::2016 Call for Speakers</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by                           <a href="https://www.dwright.org/">Dan Wright</a>                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/DWRIGHT">DWRIGHT</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 The YAPC::NA::2016 call for speakers is now open! There must be something <em>you</em> could talk about: Perl 5, Perl 6, the transition between the two (either way!), some other programming language, or some other topic you think may be of interest to programmers.
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               <a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/yapcna2016-call-for-master-cla.html" style="
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                  ">YAPC::NA::2016 Call for Master Classes</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by                           <a href="https://www.dwright.org/">Dan Wright</a>                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/DWRIGHT">DWRIGHT</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 YAPC::NA are looking for people to give master classes before and after this year's YAPC::NA.
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               <a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/02/lxvii-cpan-great-modules-released-last.html" style="
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                  ">NICEPERL's lists</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   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.com/2016/02/lxvii-cpan-great-modules-released-last.html">Great modules released last week</a>; <a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/02/cxcix-metacpan-weekly-report.html">MetaCPAN weekly report</a>; <a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/02/ccxxiv-stackoverflow-perl-report.html">StackOverflow Perl report</a>.
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               <a href="http://perltricks.com/article/213/2016/2/10/What-s-new-on-CPAN---January-2015" style="
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                  ">What's new on CPAN - January 2015</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   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's selection of new modules released to CPAN in January. He's decided not to continue with his "module of the month", considering it an experiment that has run its course. One worth looking at is <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Importer">Importer</a>.
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               <a href="https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/using-lcpan-to-index-your-darkpan/" style="
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                  ">Using lcpan to index your DarkPAN</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 describes the <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/lcpan">lcpan</a> tool, which you can use to manage your own CPAN mirror. There's going to be a series of daily tips on lcpan usage: <a href="https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2016/02/14/lcpan-tips-001-doc/">here</a>'s the first.
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/book/2016/02/test-your-git-wrapper-against-500-versions-of-git.html" style="
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                  ">Test your Git wrapper against 500 versions of Git</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by Philippe Bruhat                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/BOOK">BOOK</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Philippe takes us through all the different versions of Git that he's tested <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Git::Repository">Git::Repository</a> against, and shares the scripts he's written to help with that.
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               <a href="http://www.wumpus-cave.net/2016/02/12/programming-quadcopters-part-i/" style="
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                  ">Programming Quadcopters, Part I</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   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">
                 A video of Timm's talk to Madison Perl Mongers about programming quadcopters in Perl.
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/alex_muntada/2016/02/simplest-way-of-serving-local-files-over-http.html" style="
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                  ">Simplest way of serving local files over HTTP?</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by Alex Muntada                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/ALEXM">ALEXM</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Alex wondered what's the easiest way to serve up files using a Perl 5 module? Several people have chipped in so far in the comments, but I'm sure more of you won't be able to resist.
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2016/02/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-february-2nd-7th.html" style="
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                  ">P5P Mailing List Summary: February 2nd-7th</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by                           <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/">Sawyer X</a>                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/XSAWYERX">XSAWYERX</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 As Chester discovers his son Danny has been sleeping with Annie and everyone awaits the kidnappers' demands for Jessica's release, the governor urges Burt to disassociate himself from his family.
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               <a href="http://www.activestate.com/blog/2016/02/windows-dll-relocation-and-perl" style="
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                  ">Windows DLL Relocation and Perl</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by Andy Grundman                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/AGRUNDMA">AGRUNDMA</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Andy describes a bug found in the way Perl builds DLL files on Windows when compiling with GCC, and how it was fixed.
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               <a href="http://perlmaven.com/run-perl-tidy-to-beautify-the-code" style="
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                  ">Run Perl::Tidy to beautify the code</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by                           <a href="http://szabgab.com/">Gabor Szabo</a>                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/SZABGAB">SZABGAB</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Gabor shows how you can use <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Tidy">Perl::Tidy</a> to ensure your code always followings your layout preferences, even if some of it was written by someone else.
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               <a href="http://perlmaven.com/use-path-tiny-instead-of-readfile-and-writefile" style="
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                  ">Use Path::Tiny instead of home-made ReadFile and WriteFile</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by                           <a href="http://szabgab.com/">Gabor Szabo</a>                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/SZABGAB">SZABGAB</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 When refactoring tests for a module, Gabor noticed functions for reading and writing files. He shows how you can use <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Path::Tiny">Path::Tiny</a> for this, and also mentions <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/File::Slurp">File::Slurp</a>, which is my go-to module for those tasks these days.
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               <a href="http://perl-howto.github.io/2016/02/perl-howto-moved-to-github.html" style="
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                  ">Perl-HowTo.de moved to GitHub Pages</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by Thomas Fahle                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/TOMFAHLE">TOMFAHLE</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 I can't really tell you much beyond the title, because it's written in German.
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               <a href="https://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/2096" style="
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                  ">the "credit the last uploader" problem</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by                           <a href="http://rjbs.manxome.org/">Ricardo Signes</a>                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/RJBS">RJBS</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 When you look at a module or dist on MetaCPAN or search.cpan.org, they both show the last person who released it. Rik points out that this isn't always the most appropriate person to show, and suggests that the <em>owner</em> of the distribution should be displayed. He also opened a <a href="https://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-web/issues/1643">github issue</a> for MetaCPAN, specifically about highlighting when a module has <code>ADOPTME</code>, <code>HANDOFF</code>, or <code>NEEDHELP</code>.
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               <a href="http://neilb.org/2016/02/13/it-takes-a-community.html" style="
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                  ">It takes a community to raise a CPAN module</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">
                 This was my response to Rik's post. I think that rather than show just one person, we should show everyone who's done a release, in the order of whose released most recently.
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               <a href="http://wollmers-perl.blogspot.co.at/2016/02/credit-first-or-last-uploader-on.html" style="
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                  ">Credit the first or last uploader on meta::cpan?</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by Helmut Wollmersdorfer                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/WOLLMERS">WOLLMERS</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 This was Helmut's response to Rik's post. He thinks that everyone with upload permissions should be displayed, which is slightly different from my proposal.
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               <a href="https://6guts.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/a-few-words-on-perl-6-versioning-and-compatibility/" style="
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                  ">A few words on Perl 6 versioning and compatibility</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   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">
                 Jonathan outlines his Perl 6 will be versioned, including the language definition, the Rakudo compiler, and MoarVM.
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               <a href="http://theperlfisher.blogspot.ro/2016/02/from-regular-expressions-to-grammars-pt_13.html" style="
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                  ">From Regular Expressions to Grammars: Pt. 2</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by                           <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/drforr/">Jeff Goff</a>                         (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/JGOFF">JGOFF</a>)                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Jeff continues his series on Perl 6 regular expressions and grammars, which has so far been about the former.
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/enkidu/2016/02/perl6-module-namespace.html" style="
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                  ">Perl6 module namespace</a>
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                   by                           <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/enkidu/">Enkidu</a>                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Enkidu bemoans the fact that lots of Perl 6 modules are being created with top-level names, such as <code>Chess</code>, and not being put in appropriate namespaces, such as <code>Games::Chess</code>.
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               <a href="http://rakudo.org/2016/02/12/announce-mac-os-x-installer-for-release-2016-01/" style="
                  font-size: 18px;
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                  ">Announce: Mac OS X Installer for release 2016.01</a>
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                 A MacOSX installer for the latest Perl 6 Rakudo star release is now available.
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               <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/yary/2016/02/text-grammar-tree--the-3.html" style="
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                  ">Text, Grammar, Tree - the 3</a>
               <br />               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Yary had been thinking about writing a reversible grammar, so you could feed it a parse tree and it would generate the original text (that had produced the parse tree). Raiph pointed out in the comments that Jonathan Worthington has a proof of concept already.
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               <a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/grant-proposal-rperl-user-docu-1.html" style="
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                  ">Grant Proposal: RPerl User Documentation, Part 2</a>
               <br />                 <span style="font-size: 14px"> 
                   by Makoto Nozaki                  </span>               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Will Braswell has applied for a second grant: $1600 to continue work on the Learning RPerl user tutorial. Add your comments if you agree or disagree with this proposal being funded.
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               <a href="http://blog.geekuni.com/2016/01/how-to-grow-a-development-team.html" style="
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                  ">How To Grow a Development Team ... Hotel California Style!</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 shares his tips for minimising churn while growing a development team.
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               <a href="http://www.mikeperham.com/2016/02/09/kill-your-dependencies/" style="
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                  ">Kill Your Dependencies</a>
               <br />               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Mike Perham urges Ruby developers to look to their dependencies, and trim them down to only those really needed. As he notes, this is an issue for all programming languages.
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               <a href="http://www.codeshare.co.uk/blog/10-golden-rules-for-becoming-a-better-programmer/" style="
                  font-size: 18px;
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                  ">10 golden rules for becoming a better programmer</a>
               <br />               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Paul Seal's tips on being a better programmer. What would you add to his list?
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               <a href="https://opensource.com/business/16/1/five-keys-project-success-github" style="
                  font-size: 18px;
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                  ">5 keys to project success on GitHub</a>
               <br />               <p style="font-size: 16px">
                 Michael Glukhovsky, co-founder of <a href="">RethinkDB</a>, shares his tips for how to make your project successful on GitHub. In his words, "it's all about engaging the community".
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