From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Jan 6 07:56:23 2014
From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo)
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:56:23 -0800
Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #128 - Out With the Old. In With the New
Message-ID: <20140106155623.4A4D776E2B3@s6.hostlocal.com>
Perl Weekly
http://perlweekly.com/
You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer.
http://perlweekly.com/archive/128.html
Welcome everyone to this brand-sparkling new year! This week, we have for
you a lot of looks back to 2013, as well as some new stuff -- releases,
initiatives, projects, programming patterns -- that seems to indicate that
2014 is going to be a very good year indeed. ~ `/anick
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Announcements
Perl APIs
http://perlhacks.com/2014/01/perl-apis
So there are all those web services out there, with glorious APIs. And they
have documentation pages, offering helpful examples. Often in Ruby,
Python, in PHP, perhaps even in Java. In Perl? Alas, that happens more
rarely. Dave Cross, bless his heart, wants to fix that.
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The DFW Winter Hackaton
http://dfw.pm.org/
It's not too late! The Hackaton ends on the 8th, so provided you have
enough coffee and ramen noodle packs close by, you still have time to
join.
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Articles
The CPAN Report 2013
http://neilb.org/cpan-report/
Neil Bowers offers us a CPAN-based retrospective of 2013. Which namespace
had the most growth? Which author released the most distribution? How
many new modules were born? He presents the shocking answers to all those
questions. (warning: seeing the statistics of the most CPAN prolific
authors is likely to make you feel like an unredeemable slacker)
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Planet Moose - December 2013
http://blogs.perl.org/users/toby_inkster/2014/01/planet-moose---december-2013.html
Thought that December was strictly for reindeers? Hah! Toby Inkster proves
you wrong.
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The Year in Perl, 2013 Retrospective
http://www.perl.com/pub/2014/01/the-year-in-perl-2013-retrospective.html
2013 was a pleasantly busy year in the Perlverse. chromatic presents here
the highlight of the last twelve months.
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10 best perl distributions created at 2013 (metacpan rating)
http://niceperl.blogspot.ca/2014/01/best-perl-distributions-created-at-2013.html
Want to have the awesomeness of a full year of brilliant minds doing
brilliant things distilled into 10 bullet points? Here's the top ten
distributions of 2013, according to their metacpan ratings.
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Discussion
Perl Benchmark Cache with Expires and Max Size
http://blog.celogeek.com/201401/426/perl-benchmark-cache-with-expires-and-max-size/
Caching. In a nutshell, we want it to be fast, reliable and not too much of
a pig, memory-wise. Celogeek helpfully benchmarks here a few of the
typically used caching modules/solutions.
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The Limits of a Programming Language Vision
http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2014/01/the-limits-of-a-programming-language-vision.html
chromatic muses on the balancing act for a programming language of having a
vision, and yet not allowing itself not to be blinded by it.
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Ephemeral methods, or what to call 'dispatch to a variable containing a subref'?
http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2014/01/ephemeral-methods-or-what-to-call-dispatch-to-a-variable-containing-a-subref.html
Just when you thought you seen it all... Joel Berger comes here with what
seems to be a new coding pattern.
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Code
A New Year, a New Dancecard
http://techblog.babyl.ca/entry/dancecard
Yanick revisits his old idea of a web library tool, meant to complement and
work with your favorite web framework.
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The perils of & (and prototypes too!)
http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2013/12/the-perils-of-and-prototypes-too.html
Prototypes and the use of '&' for function invocation... two things newbies
gleefully hamstrings themselves with. Joel Berger shows us here a good
example why those constructs are tricky, and should be used with caution.
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Sereal v2 Finally Released as Stable
http://blogs.perl.org/users/steffen_mueller/2013/12/sereal-v2-finally-released-as-stable.html
Steffen Mueller announces the official release of Sereal v2, the
serialization protocol concocted by the fine folks at Booking.com.
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Introducing Sub::Trigger::Lock
http://blogs.perl.org/users/toby_inkster/2014/01/introducing-subtriggerlock.html
Not only want your attributes to be read-only, but also want to ensure that
whatever structure they point too stays unmodified? Toby Inkster has a
solution for you.
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Shazam! Use Image::Magick with Perlbrew in minutes
http://perltricks.com/article/57/2014/1/1/Shazam-Use-Image-Magick-with-Perlbrew-in-minutes
Most Perl modules are trivial to install. A select few are however... ah,
shall we say, more challengeful? Image::Magick is definitively an emerit
member of this very exclusive teeth-gnashing club. But take heart: David
Farrell shares with us the proper incantation to summon this most useful
image manipulation module to your machine.
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Create your own Test::Mojo method
http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2014/01/create-your-own-testmojo-method.html
Want to add a method to Test::Mojo, but don't want to commit the sin of
monkey-patching? Joel Berger is there to offer you a more virtuous
alternative.
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Videos
Creating a CPAN distribution with Milla
http://perltv.org/v/creating-a-cpan-distribution-with-milla
Miyagawa walks us through minting a new distribution with Milla, his
user-friendlier, customized Dist::Zilla wrapper application.
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Weekly collections
MetaCPAN Weekly Report - Module::Starter::Smart
http://niceperl.blogspot.co.il/2013/12/lxxxix-metacpan-weekly-report.html
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StackOverflow Perl report
http://niceperl.blogspot.co.il/2014/01/cxiv-stackoverflow-perl-report.html
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Perl Maven Tutorials
Minimal requirement to build a sane CPAN package
http://perlmaven.com/minimal-requirement-to-build-a-sane-cpan-package
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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.
Perl Oasis West
http://bit.ly/1i3ikmn
January 25th, 2014, Tampa, Florida, USA
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German Perl Workshop (GPW 2014)
http://bit.ly/10WS00y
March 26-28, 2014, Hannover, Germany
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Polish Perl Workshop 2014
http://bit.ly/1cOHnCx
16-18 May, 2014 in Poznan, Poland
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