From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Dec 15 23:16:56 2013
From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo)
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 23:16:56 -0800
Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #125 - Snow, wind, no electricity,
but plenty of Perl
Message-ID: <20131216071656.9648876E3F3@s6.hostlocal.com>
Perl Weekly
http://perlweekly.com/
You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer.
http://perlweekly.com/archive/125.html
Hi,
I don't know about your part of the world, but we just had a major storm
that even covered the 'near-by' pyramids in snow. Part of the country is
still without electricity after 4 days, but we were lucky as we did not
have any power-failure and the sun came back too.
Anyhow, the Perlish Advent calendars supply many articles for you to read,
but other people have not stopped to write either. You have plenty to read.
Enjoy!
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Advent Calendars
Plenty of articles have been published on the 4 active Perl-related Advent
calendars. This is just a reminder that there is plenty to read on these
sites.
Perl
http://bit.ly/19ylFAM
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Perl 6
http://bit.ly/IZ8y5v
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Catalyst
http://bit.ly/19sbhPr
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Future
http://bit.ly/IZ8Adr
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Articles
More WordPress grepping
http://bit.ly/19sbfau
This is the second post by brian d foy about WordPress::Grep, his new
module and command line tool.
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Why I Don't Like Perl State Variables
http://bit.ly/IZ8Adv
Have you ever used the 'state' keyword in Perl? It is 'new' since 5.10 and
it works like a 'static' variable in C. But do you really need it? Timm
Murray from Wumpus Cave does not seem to like it.
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Selfie
Perl and Me, Part 2: The Power of OOP
http://bit.ly/19sbhPB
As you could guess from the title, this is already the 2nd part of the
series Buddy Burden writes bare feet on his road in the programming
world. A very interesting conversation with ones own self.
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Testing
CPAN Testers Summary - November 2013 - Fire Dances
http://bit.ly/IZ8Adx
The regular monthly report from Barbie.
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Single process versus parallel tests
http://bit.ly/IZ8ylQ
Ovid discusses the advantages of running tests in parallel - which are
quite obvious (you get home earlier) - or maybe it isn't? He also
describes his work on Test::Class, and Test::Class::Moose to make
parallel processing a possibility there too.
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CPAN
The correct Makefile.PL incantation
http://bit.ly/IZ8Ady
How to do you handle installation of CPAN modules on production servers if
you don't have direct access to the Internet? (I'd be more worried if
someone has access to the Internet and installs the latest from CPAN.)
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Applications and Frameworks
OpenBedrock Moves to GitHub
http://bit.ly/19sbfqN
Bedrock is a server side web application development environment that can
be used with Apache web servers.
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Convos: Chatting in the cloud with Mojolicious
http://bit.ly/19sbfqP
Convos is a web-based persistent IRC client. It will hold on to your IRC
connections while you are away, but let's you use a web-based interface
to chat in IRC.
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New Dancer 2 release: 0.11
http://bit.ly/19sbfqQ
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Grants
Maintaining the Perl 5 Core: Report for Month 1
http://bit.ly/IZ8ylU
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Videos
Build a start up!
http://bit.ly/IZ8AdG
Watch the first 2:20 minutes of the lightning talks from YAPC::NA in which
JT Smith calls on you to build something. Build if for your own sake and
for the sake of Perl.
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Weekly collections
MetaCPAN weekly report - Mojolicious
http://bit.ly/19sbfr0
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StackOverflow Perl report
http://bit.ly/19sbimz
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Perl 6 changes - 2013W50
http://bit.ly/IZ8ylY
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Perl Maven Tutorials
Contributing to a Perl module on CPAN (using vim and Github)
http://bit.ly/IZ8ym5
This is an earlier screencast that can still be useful for you, it you are
thinking about contributing to open source. As one of the readers pointed
out: 'Your video was really eye opening. It showed me that I do not need
to start very big as I was thinking, small contributions like that can
really lead to big ones.'
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Eliminate circular reference memory-leak using weaken
http://bit.ly/IZ8ym6
Because of the flexibility of Perl it is very easy to create circular
references which, if not handled correctly, can easily cause memory leak.
Here is how you can measure memory usage and how you can avoid circular
references.
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Perl split - to cut up a string into pieces
http://bit.ly/19sbfHo
Example on how to use split assigning the result to an array or to a list
of scalars. There is also an example using array slices to split on the
fly without creating a temporary variable.
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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.
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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