From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Nov 17 23:45:44 2013
From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo)
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:45:44 -0800
Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #121 - Advent is getting closer
Message-ID: <20131118074544.9BBA476E2C4@s6.hostlocal.com>
Perl Weekly
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You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer.
http://perlweekly.com/archive/121.html
Hi there,
Christmas is getting close and before that there is the tradition of
creating Advent calendars. In the Perl world it means a series of articles,
one article every day in the 3 weeks leading up to Christmas. It is a
community project so you can also contribute an article or two. See the
advent section for more details.
Enjoy!
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Announcements
Padre 1.00 has been released
http://bit.ly/I0IFTh
Without a lot of fanfare Padre, the Perl IDE has reached it 1.00 release.
Available on a CPAN near you.
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Perl Redis Mailing List
http://bit.ly/19ylFAG
Damien Krotkine became the maintainer of the Redis Perl module and started
his reign by creating a mailing list for the Redis Perl users and
developers.
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The Stratopan Beta Is Here
http://bit.ly/19ylDZA
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer has opened the gates of Stratopan. (You might
recall, it is the cloud-hosted version Pinto, that gives you control over
all your Perl-dependencies so they will be upgraded only when you want
them to. There is also a promise to get unlimited access to Stratopan for
life if you sign up soon. I already have an account.
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Advent
Perl Catalyst Request for Advent Season Articles!
http://bit.ly/19ylFAJ
John Napiorkowski calls upon the Catalyst users to submit articles for the
Catalyst Advent Calendar ("http://bit.ly/I0IFTk").
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Perl Advent Calendar
http://bit.ly/I0IF5O
Ricardo Signes is working on the Perl Advent Calendar 2013
("http://bit.ly/19ylFAM"). See the submission FAQ
("http://perladvent.org/FAQ-submit.html") if you are interested in
writing an article.
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Dancer advent calendar 2013
http://bit.ly/I0IF5R
David Precious put out a call for help with the Perl Dancer Advent calendar
("http://bit.ly/19ylEfY").
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Windows and portability
Windows Shell to Perl Program
http://bit.ly/I0IFTm
JT Smith writes about the MadMongers meeting where they took a bat file (a
Windows shell script) and converted it to a Perl script. It became much
longer, so besides having fun, I am not sure what is the advantage here.
Unless they plan to wrap some of the functionality in modules so they
become reusable and then the actual script becomes short again.
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Don't Get Bent Out of Shape About Being Cross Platform
http://bit.ly/19ylEg0
Timm Murray, who came out from the Wumpus Cave just to attend the
MadMongers meeting, has his own opinion on how much one should invest in
turning a script to be platform independent. Especially when there is no
immediate need to run the script on other platforms.
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Testing
CPAN Testers Summary - Nov 2013 - Pandemonium
http://bit.ly/I0IFm6
Highlight: the server upgrade is now complete! Test reports are flowing
again! - Thanks Barbie!
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Porting Test::Class to the p5-mop
http://bit.ly/19ylFRi
Ovid has reimplemented Test::Class::Moose as Test::Class::MOP
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Code
A Stratopan quick start user guide
http://bit.ly/I0IFm7
Now that Stratopan is out in public beta, David Farrell has quickly created
a start-up guide with screenshots and explanation.
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Context and the Comma Operator
http://bit.ly/I0IFmc
Apparently I missed the Tiny Code Quiz ("http://bit.ly/19ylEgb") Ovid
posted last week, but now chromatic took upon the task to try to explain
the seemingly (?) unexpected behavior of perl.
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Videos
Larry Wall: 5 Programming Languages Everyone Should Know
http://bit.ly/I0IFmf
6:13 minutes - part of the BigThink interview.
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Introduction to the Perl Data Language (PDL)
http://bit.ly/19ylG7H
51:22 min talk by David Mertens giving some 'simple' (as in simple
astrophysics :) example, and then a bunch of resources to make it easier
to get started. The approach is interesting as he keeps telling why is it
better to use PDL than C, but only once does he mention the advantages of
PDL over pure Perl.
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Web
The way to write Ruby + Middleman application with Perl.
http://bit.ly/19ylG7I
Middleman is ruby web framework that makes developing stand-alone websites
simple. Yuki Kimoto shows an example using Mojolicious. One of the
commenters points to a similar solution in Dancer, and yet another
commenter points to Poet which is a modern web framework for Mason
developers.
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How to have several Catalyst apps behind one Apache server
http://bit.ly/19ylEws
Tara L Andrews uses Plack::Middleware::ReverseProxyPath and a shell script
to solve this.
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Other
Marpa's Advantages
http://bit.ly/19ylGo6
Ron Savage has published the 2nd chapter of his Marpa Papers
("http://bit.ly/I0IFmg").
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moving my homedir into the 21st century
http://bit.ly/I0IG9U
Ricardo Signes tells us about the pair programming session he had with Ingy
d?t Net and Frew Schmidt, and how it lead him to switch from 'screen' to
'tmux'. He also talks about the dotfile manager he has started to use.
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Weekly collections
(lxxxii) MetaCPAN weekly report - Kelp
http://bit.ly/I0IFmn
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StackOverflow Perl report
http://bit.ly/I0IFCB
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Perl 6 changes - 2013W46
http://bit.ly/19ylEN0
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Perl Maven Tutorials
Multi dimensional hashes in Perl
http://bit.ly/19ylGoe
Perl only has one-dimensional hashes, but each value in a hash can be a
reference to another hash. Or to an array. This, together with
auto-vivification allows the creation of very flexible data structures.
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Events
I usually list the next 3-4 events here. The list of all the events can be
found on the web site (http://perlweekly.com/events.html). If your Perl
event is not listed there, please let me know.
Nordic Perl Workshop 2013
http://bit.ly/16WT32H
November 23, 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark
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London Perl Workshop (LPW 2013)
http://bit.ly/17gJVYW
Saturday 30th November 2013 at Westminster University
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German Perl Workshop (GPW 2014)
http://bit.ly/10WS00y
March 26-28, 2014, Hannover, Germany
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YAPC::NA 2014
http://bit.ly/H6ndeD
June 23?25, 2014, Orlando FL
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