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Issue #240 - 2016-02-29 - YAPC is coming!
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Hi there!
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YAPC::NA is coming to Orlando, Florida and the dead-line to submit talk proposals is in less than 48 hours! If you have not submitted your talk yet, do it now. You will still have plenty of time to actually prepare your talk.
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YAPC::NA is also going to have a number of 'Master Classes'. I've just sent in two proposals. One for front-end web development and one for building a web API. If you are interested in either of those, let me know!
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<a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/yapcna-qa.html" style="
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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">
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<a href="http://www.learning-perl.com/2016/02/dos-pattern-matching-in-perl/" style="
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by brian d foy (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/BDFOY">BDFOY</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
A fun exercise, if you wish.
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<a href="http://blog.urth.org/2016/02/25/using-test2-to-re-implement-testclassmoose/" style="
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by <a href="http://blog.urth.org">Dave Rolsky</a> (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/DROLSKY">DROLSKY</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Dave shows some problems with TAP including the fact that it cannot handle forking it a test well. He then points at Test2 that can provide a better abstraction layer for tests and solve some of the issues with the current testing framework of Perl.
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<a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2016/02/the-lyon-compromise-on-perl-version-formats.html" style="
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by brian d foy (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/BDFOY">BDFOY</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
brian tries his hand at convincing Google to point to this page and this explanation when someone looks for the Lyon Compromise of Perl version formats. Can you help giving that page some relevant Google juice by sharing it, tweeting it, linking to it?
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<a href="http://perlmaven.com/ajax-and-dancer2" 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">
The beginning of a new series building a web application using Dancer as the back-end providing a JSON-based API.
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<a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/melezhik/2016/02/inroducing-cpanparty.html" style="
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by <a href="http://blogs.perl.org/users/melezhik/">Alexey Melezhik</a> (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/MELEZHIK">MELEZHIK</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Not getting a lot of (or any?) feedback won't stop a true believer in the cause. Alexey throws a party. You are all invited.
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<a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/maintaining-perl-5-grant-repor-26.html" style="
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by Tony Cook (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/TONYC">TONYC</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Approximately 43 tickets were reviewed, and 11 patches were applied
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<a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/janfeb-2016-grant-votes.html" style="
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by Makoto Nozaki </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
TPF approved RPerl User Documentation, Part 2.
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<a href="https://www.nu42.com/2016/02/perl-spreading-windows-visual-studio.html" style="
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by Sinan Unur (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/NANIS">NANIS</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
If you install Visual Studio 2015, you also get a version of Perl. Is this good? Is this bad? Check what the <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/47cqqx/perl_is_spreading_to_windows/">Redditers</a> have to say.
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<a href="http://perlhacks.com/2016/02/training-debrief-2/" style="
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by Dave Cross (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/DAVECROSS">DAVECROSS</a>) </span> <p style="font-size: 16px">
Dave tells us how were the recent Perl training classes he ran.
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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/2016/02/lxix-cpan-great-modules-released-last.html">Great modules released last week</a>;<br><a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/02/cci-metacpan-weekly-report-minion.html">MetaCPAN weekly report</a>;<br><a href="http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/02/ccxxvi-stackoverflow-perl-report.html">StackOverflow Perl report</a>.
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<a href="http://perlmaven.com/fixing-the-release-adding-version-numbers" 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">
Part of the series <a href="http://perlmaven.com/becoming-a-co-maintainer">how to become a co-maintainer of a CPAN-module</a>.
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<a href="http://perlmaven.com/fix-perl-critic-test-failures-reported-by-cpantesters" 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">
What do you when you get failure reports from the CPAN Testers indicating Perl::Critic issues even though everything was fine on your machine.
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