From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Dec 23 00:23:04 2013
From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:23:04 -0800
Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #126 - Happy Birthday to Perl - White Camels
Message-ID: <20131223082304.E873C76E17C@s6.hostlocal.com>
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http://perlweekly.com/archive/126.html
Hi,
it is just about Christmas and while a large chunk of the world does not
celebrate it, I am sure many of the readers of the Perl Weekly have a few
days off around the holiday. I have received vacation auto-responders last
week already saying that they will be back in the office on January 7. Now
that's a vacation!
Anyway, this week we celebrated the 26th birthday of Perl, and the White
Camel award winners were announced. There is a World wide Perl competition
run by the DFW Perl Mongers. I just found out about the Perl Oasis West,
that is just a month away in Tampa, FL, and I saw that the next Russian
Perl conference announced to be held in Kiev, Ukraine. (No, I don't want to
get involved in the Europe-Ukraine-Russia political debate.)
I was hoping people will slow down and go on vacation, but instead of that,
tons of articles.
Enjoy!
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Announcements
Perl is 26 Today
http://bit.ly/1gQjukT
On 18th December Perl celebrated it 26th birthday. In his article,
chromatic points out the important role Perl played in the development of
programming languages. It was posted to Hacker news
("http://bit.ly/1hwZi56"). You can spend a whole afternoon digging
through it.
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The 2013 White Camels
http://bit.ly/1hwZjpI
The White Camel Awards recognize outstanding, non-technical achievement in
Perl. Every year it is awarded to 3 individuals or teams. This year the
recipients are Thiago "maluco" Rondon, Fred Moyer, and the Dijkmat team:
Wendy and Liz. Reading the 'reasoning' behind the awards is always very
inspirational.
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World wide Perl competition
http://bit.ly/1hwZjpJ
The Dallas/Fort Worth Perl Mongers ("http://bit.ly/1gQjukX") (DFW.pm), have
started a hackathon or code-competition. You are invited to check out the
task and the rules and get started. The dead-line to finish the project
in January 8th. So you have all the Holiday time, if you are in an area
where this is Holiday time, to work on the project and WIN!
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Perl Oasis West
http://bit.ly/1i3ikmn
Perl Workshop in Tampa, Florida, USA. January 25th, 2014,
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YAPC::Russia 2014
http://bit.ly/1jxsLQZ
14 June, 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine
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Advent Calendars
The advent calendars are ending today or tomorrow, but the articles remain
there, for all of you to read during the Holidays, and beyond.
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
Misunderstanding Context
http://bit.ly/1hwZi5f
It is always interesting to see when Dave Cross analyzes how people on the
outskirts of the Perl community think about specific subjects related to
Perl. I am not sure though, how would that look like like if people who
are closer to the center of the onion explained what they know (or think
to know) about these subject in Perl. I am sure I would be caught
red-handed many times if I was writing about these.
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Releases
Perl DBD::ODBC 1.46_2 released - You REALLY need to test this release
http://bit.ly/1gQjuBj
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Foswiki 1.1.9 released
http://bit.ly/1hwZjpQ
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Code
Moving PPI to GitHub encourages some new activity
http://bit.ly/1gQjtO3
Adam Kennedy was one of the most prolific CPAN authors until he changed
jobs and country. He has over 200 modules in a giant Subversion
repository that finally will be moved to GitHub. This is great. It will
allow easier contribution, and hopefully more of his modules will get new
maintainers.
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Universal way to get memory usage of a process
http://bit.ly/1hwZjGc
Celogeek shows an example how to get the memory usage of a process using
Proc::ProcessTable ("http://bit.ly/1gQjwJs").
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Fun
How I learned to plot a Mandelbrot set
http://bit.ly/1hwZjGh
Fractals are always nice to look at. It is even nicer when it is done by
Dmitry Karasik using the bridge between PDL (the Perl Data Language) and
Prima (the Perl GUI toolkit).
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What?! CUDA::Minimal... works?
http://bit.ly/1gQjwJA
It's great that it is minimal and that it works again, but what is CUDA?
David Mertens explains: CUDA is a great framework for writing parallel
applications that run on (capable) nVidia video cards.
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Perl and Me, Part 3: A M??se once bit my sister
http://blogs.perl.org/users/buddy_burden/2013/12/perl-and-me-part-3-a-moose-once-bit-my-sister.html
Bare feet Buddy Burden continues to explore his relationship to Perl.
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Videos
Hacker Interviews: Larry Wall
http://bit.ly/1hwZlhb
32 minutes in the home of Larry Wall. An interview conducted by Jonathan
Schiefer.
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Other
Maintaining possibly unused modules
http://bit.ly/1gQjwJD
Philippe Bruhat (BooK) explains his participation in the CPAN Once a Week
contest ("http://bit.ly/1gQjuRP"), which in itself would need more
attention, and calls upon you to send him personal e-mails indicating
that you are indeed using his module.
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LPW2013 Survey Results
http://bit.ly/1hwZlhh
Barbie has just published the survey report. I was really surprised to see
my name there ("http://yapc-surveys.org/html/lpw2013-survey.html").
Flattering.
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Weekly collections
StackOverflow Perl report
http://bit.ly/1hwZlhi
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Perl Maven Tutorials
TAP - Test Anything Protocol
http://bit.ly/1gQjwJJ
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Blogging with Riji
http://bit.ly/1gQjwZW
Riji that means diary in Chinese is a simple blog tool using Markdown. This
is an introduction to using it.
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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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