[Philadelphia-pm] Fwd: [Perlweekly] The current Perl Weekly News - Issue #8

Mark Gardner mjg at phoenixtrap.com
Tue Sep 20 12:10:33 PDT 2011


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From: Gabor Szabo <gabor at szabgab.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:23 AM
Subject: [Perlweekly] The current Perl Weekly News - Issue #8
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Issue #8 - September 19, 2011
 You can read the newsletter on the web<http://perlweekly.com/archive/8.html>,
if you prefer.

Hi there,

This issue was mostly prepared on the train from Helsinki to Tampere. It's
great to have wifi on trains, even it that means I missed some of the views
of Finland. Never mind. I still caught a glimpse of the beautiful sky and we
still have the trip back.

New event: The Twin City Perl Workshop 2011 in Vienna and Bratislava,
between 4-5 November has been announced. See details below.

Experiment: The links to the articles are now using bit.ly in the e-mail.
This will allow me to gain some insight which articles are more popular.
Please let me know if something is not working.

Poll: I am preparing a poll asking people (both Perl Weekly subscribers and
others) what kind of articles would they be interested to read. I'd
appreciate your help telling me what should be the options? Please reply in
email!

Now to the posts...

Headlines

The New OO Docs of Dave Rolsky for the Perl Core Have Been
Merged<http://bit.ly/pw_1000>
After many months of working the new OOP docs written by Dave Rolsky finally
reached the point when they could be merged into the core perl
documentation. This means they will be part of the next official release of
perl. If you are impatient to wait you can check out his blog entry and from
there the link to the documentation.

ack: 1.96 released with Groovy support <http://betterthangrep.com/>
ack is like grep, just better.

Articles

How to Use Regular Expressions to Parse Nested Structures
<http://bit.ly/pw_1001>
Peter Thoeny uses the SpreadSheetPlugin of TWiki as an example to show how
to build a mixture of subroutines and regular expressions to parse data that
can have nested elements. (eg. XML or HTML)

Corelist web interface <http://bit.ly/pw_1002>
Tina Müller (tinita) mentioned the web interface for the Corelist module she
rebuilt. I have not seen this website earlier but I think it is really nice
that you can check when was a module first included in the standard Perl
distribution and which version of a module was included in each version of
Perl.

Perl for Google Fusion Tables <http://bit.ly/pw_1003>
'Fusion Tables is a new Google product for data storage: a kind of database'
writes Robin Clarke (RCL) while introducing his new module Google::Fusion
encapsulating the access to the service.

02packages.dependencies.txt.gz && apt-cpan <http://bit.ly/pw_1004>
For a long time I wanted a solution to be able to use CPAN.pm to install a
module but let it default to apt-get (or yum) if a dependency is already
available from the vendor. Jozef shows his solution using the MetaCPAN::API

Discussion

Which is the better language to learn Perl or PHP? <http://bit.ly/pw_1005>
I wrote this article in response to a question I got. I tried to make the
comparison related to the job opportunities. The article was quite popular
but the strange thing was that some of the comments on Google Plus and
Twitter related to the relative qualities of the two languages and not the
career opportunities.

RESTful Perl Resources <http://bit.ly/pw_1006>
chromatic asked for directions on how to explain and teach REST for Perl
programmers. Several comments from well known Perl programmers pointed to
the 'REST in Practice' book, a few articles and a CPAN module to help with
the task.

Video

Mojocast Authentication, Helpers, and Plugins <http://bit.ly/pw_1007>
Glen Hinkle (tempire) released the third episode of his Mojolicious
screencast.

Hello World <http://bit.ly/pw_1008>
Leo Lapworth (Ranguard) has just released a new, 2 minute screencast showing
how to write hello world on the command line.

Games

prisk (Games::Risk) gains its own map format, allowing translations!
<http://bit.ly/pw_1009>
I have already managed to waste a lot of time playing Risk using prisk
written by Jerome Quelin (jq). Now its your turn. New map format and a
partial move to Moose will allow more people to get involved in the
development and the localization of the game.

Code

How to find files with Path::Class::Rule <http://bit.ly/pw_1010>
David Golden (dagolden) introduces his new module for traversing a directory
structure an processing files and directories based on some rule. Think
about a Perlish way of using the Unix find command.

Faster HTTP usage <http://bit.ly/pw_1011>
Martin Evans compares the speed of LWP to WWW::Curl::Easy and shows how the
latter is faster. The code is more complex though and I am not sure if being
faster on the CPU really matters. After all these both solve network
intensive tasks. Waiting for the HTTP request still takes a lot more time
than the CPU usage.

Tool for Perl Scripting - Devel::Comments <http://bit.ly/pw_1012>
Tyler Slijboom shows how to use your comments to have seamless logging in
your code for easier debugging. Though it is not mentioned in the blog but
Devel::Comments is a fork of Smart::Comments. For some reason I never used
either of those but I should give them a try as the idea seems to be good.

Perl Examples: Array of Arrays, Hash of Arrays, Hash of Hashes,
Stack<http://bit.ly/pw_1018>
Sathiya Moorthy gives 5 simple examples dealing with complex data structures
in Perl.

Perl 6

This is not enough! <http://bit.ly/pw_1013>
One of the biggest issues I had with Rakudo Perl 6 was its speed. I can
program around some bugs. I can implement some missing CPAN modules but if
it takes minutes to run my code instead of seconds I'll easily lose my
patience. Jonathan Worthington describes how, getting a new and faster
machine got him to improve the speed of Rakudo even further. - I think it is
time for me to take another look at Rakudo.

Padre

Padre realtime diff :) <http://bit.ly/pw_1017>
Ahmad M. Zawawi (azawawi) shows further progress in the development of
Padre. Improved integration with VCS tools allows the Padre user to see the

Not Perl

Bootstrap && Perl <http://bit.ly/pw_1014>
As miguel prz (niceperl) also pointed out this is not exactly a Perl post
but I hope people from the Perl community will pick up the idea and
integrate Bootstrap with their web framework.

Success or failure – with open source <http://bit.ly/pw_1015>
This is not a Perl specific post but I think people who are involved in open
source Perl projects or who are using one - in short anyone using Perl -
could benefit from reading and thinking about the question: 'What makes an
open source project successful?' Is that what Ulrich Habel (rhaen) wrote or
is that something else?

Events

Twin City Perl Workshop <http://bit.ly/pw_1016>
November 4-5, 2011, Vienna, Austria and Bratislava, Slovakia

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