<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Gabor Szabo</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gabor@szabgab.com">gabor@szabgab.com</a>></span><br>Date: 14 November 2011 08:45<br>
Subject: [Perlweekly] The current Perl Weekly News - Issue #16<br>To: <a href="mailto:perlweekly@perlweekly.com">perlweekly@perlweekly.com</a><br><br><br>
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Issue #16 - November 14, 2011
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Hi,
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I am sending this from London where I attended the UK Perl Workshop. It was great. There were lots of interesting talks that I missed because I was giving a 4 hour training.
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There was also a social event after, that I enjoyed very much. There were some 220-250 people who came to the event.
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GCI - TPF needs your help to locate teenagers who would like to participate in the Google Code-in and do Perl related projects.
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Now to the articles:
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<p style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold">Headlines</p>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/viCCgH" style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Perl Accepted For GCI - Now We Just Need Students</a>
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The Perl Foundation was accepted to participate in the Google Code-in. Now it is time to find students between the ages 13-17 years who are interested to participate. That's where The Perl Foundation needs your help. See the post of Paul Johnson (pjcj) with details.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/uxndQQ" style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part VII: Handy Regular Expressions</a>
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Peteris Krumins continues his series about Perl one-liners. This time looking at regular expressions. Some of them are useful, for others there are CPAN modules that serve the purpose better than a regex.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/szqSDZ" style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Graphing time-based data in Perl</a>
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David Precious (bigpersh) wanted to produce some graphs for a Dancer based application. After looking around on CPAN he settled with Chart::Strip. There is a small example code and the resulting graph in the blog.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/vaTvqX" style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Intelligent caching for all time statistics</a>
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Sebastian Willing show how to use Memcached to keep already computed data in memory in a way that survives even a restart to the web-server.
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<p style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold">Discussion</p>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/vctk10" style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Confident Code Using Systematic, Automated Input Validation</a>
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John Wang takes some ideas from Ruby and shows how to implement 'confident code' in Moose. It's up for discussion to figure out if this is a good or a bad way to show the power of Moose.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/vjIuMk" style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Technical Quality is an Insurance Policy</a>
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When you copy-paste some code, do you create 'technical debt', 'friction' or are you driving up the premium you pay for your 'technical insurance'? It's only a question of metaphor but explaining the problem in a way that is easier to understand for business people is important. Hence the article of Jeff Thalhammer on the Moder Perl Books web site.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/uCjJ7i" style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Marpa v. Perl regexes: some numbers</a>
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Jeffrey Kegler pitches his Marpa engine against the regex engine of Perl. He says that in some cases Marpa is much faster than any regex could be. Then a discussion with Tom Christiansen makes the whole article even more interesting.
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<p style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold">Slides</p>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/tn4z5w" style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">London Perl Workshop - Learning Perl Together</a>
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Ian Norton (idn) has published his slides from the 'Learning Perl Together' workshop he gave at the London Perl Workshop
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<a href="http://bit.ly/swRydd" style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Modern Core Perl Slides</a>
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Dave Cross gave a very good 90 minute long talk about what is new in Perl 5.10, 5.12, 5.14 and even in the not-yet-released 5.16. He is sharing his slides here.
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<p style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold">Code</p>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/ug9WFU" style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Caching pages - Beyond Firebug to NYTProf</a>
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Dave Jacoby shows an example how NYTProf lead him to caching result pages reducing the response time by more than 50%. It was interesting to see now as I am planning to do the same with my simple blog engine.
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<p style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold">Perl Tutorial</p>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/u5nvm4" style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Perl Tutorial: Scalar and List context in Perl, the size of an array</a>
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<p style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold">Perl 6</p>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/rZ76XX" style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Slides from the Optimizing Rakudo Perl 6 talk</a>
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Jonathan Worthington published his slides.
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<p style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold">Other</p>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/uXDqko" style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Fun with Perl</a>
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A couple of days ago Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes mentioned to me that the 'Fun with Perl' mailing list suddenly woke up. Judging from the archive it isn't a busy list but a very rewarding one. Assuming you like that kind of fun.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/vEh97N" style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">What I learned from YAPC::Brasil</a>
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brian d foy describes his experience at a conference where most of the talks are in a language he does not understand and also finds time to introduce Data::Printer. Nice pictures too.
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<a href="http://bit.ly/vkWNYq" style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">LPW2011 : my thoughts overall</a>
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David Precious (bigpersh) reports about the London Perl Workshop.
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<p style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold">Perl Training</p>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/vxEzmy" style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Public Perl training in London</a>
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Dave Cross is running an 'Intermediate Perl' and an 'Advanced Perl' course in February 2012 in central London.
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<p style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold">Events</p>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/rRwocn" style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Saint Perl 2011 Conference</a>
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December 18, 2011, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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<a href="http://bit.ly/pWbUmU" style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">The Perl Oasis</a>
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January 13-15, 2012, Orlando, Florida, USA
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<a href="http://bit.ly/uAkkog" style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold" target="_blank">German Perl workshop</a>
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March 5-7, 2012, Erlangen, Germany
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