From gabor at szabgab.com  Sun Jan 12 23:35:57 2014
From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo)
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:35:57 -0800
Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #129 - PAUSE Stopped, Now Plays Again
Message-ID: <20140113073557.D9F7F76E57D@s6.hostlocal.com>

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 The big excitement of the week undubitably has been the Perl NOC suffering
the failure of several hard drives, which resulted in the PAUSE server
going down and brought the upload of new modules to a dead stop. Thanks to
the brave souls behind those services, everything is already back in
business, and the stream of new modules and releases is flowing once more.
NOC heroes who made this speedy recovery possible, we salute you. ~ `/anick 




Sponsors

  
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Announcements

  
  Perl 5.18.2 Now Available
  http://bit.ly/1cZTA6Q
 
  A new year, a new perl.  A new release of Perl is out, focusing on bug
  fixes.
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  Strawberry Perl 5.18.2.1 released
  http://bit.ly/1cZTAn6
 
  No strawberry shall be left behind. Following suit with the release of Perl
  5.18.2, kmx announces the new Strawberry Perl for Windows
  ("http://bit.ly/1cZTBrn").
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  Help test IO::Socket::IP for Perl v5.20
  http://bit.ly/1cZTBro
 
  The future needs you. IO:Socket::IP is planned to be added to Perl 5.20, 
  and thus bring IPv6 support to core perl. But before this happens, the
  new code has to be thoroughly tested. This is where you, if you accept
  your mission, will fit in.
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Articles

  
  Perl and Me, Part 5: Speaking with the speech of coders
  http://bit.ly/1cZTBrp
 
  Just like English, Perl borrows liberally from other languages, is full of
  what seems to be redundancy, and have quite its fair share of quirks. 
  Coincidence? No, not really. Buddy Burden dives deep into Perl's
  linguistic heritage.
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  List Assignment in Scalar Context
  http://bit.ly/1cZTAnb
 
  Contexts in Perl. They sure can be tricky. Nate Glenn  tackles here the
  joys and gotchas of list assignments in  scalar context.
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  On the relative readability of Perl and Python
  http://bit.ly/1cZTAnc
 
  .. by Joel Berger
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  Building ImageMagick on RHEL/CentOS 6 with Perl 5.18.1
  http://bit.ly/1dJ58fw
 
  ... by Jon Jensen.
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Discussion

  
  Why I Didn't Submit A Patch
  http://bit.ly/1cZTBrs
 
  It's a harsh reality, but it stands to reason: for your project to get 
  contributions, you have to reduce the hoops the wannabe contributors has
  to jump through  to as close as zero as possible. That can mean, amongst
  other things and for better or worse, having your project using the VCS
  and/or hosting site that is the de-facto standard in your community. Ovid
  explains how, in his case, that made the difference between investing
  time into pushing a patch, or not.
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Testing

  
  Major Test::Class::Moose Update
  http://bit.ly/1cZTBHG
 
  A new version of Ovid's Test::Class::Moose is out. Parallel testing is now
  supported, along some other nice goodies.
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Code

  
  The easy way to build stand-alone Perl apps
  http://bit.ly/1cZTAnk
 
  So you have this Perl program that you want to use as a stand-alone
  application. No libraries to install, just a vanilla perl on the target
  machine, your file, and that's it. David Farrell shows you how that's
  possible to do using App::FatPacker.
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  B::C[C] and rperl
  http://bit.ly/1cZTAnl
 
  Reini Urban discusses the deep, gory parts of the B::C perl compiler in
  conjuncture with the new 'rperl' project.
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  making my daemon share more memory
  http://bit.ly/1cZTBHH
 
  Sharing is caring (about your memory footprint and the ones of your forked
  children). Ricardo Signes cares, and here shares his tricks to ensure the
  maximal amount of memory is shared between a daemon and its children.
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  Solve almost any datetime need with Time::Piece
  http://bit.ly/1cZTAno
 
  DateTime isn't the only kid on the block when it comes to temporal needs.
  There is also the friendlier Time::Piece which, David Farrell argues,
  might fit most of your needs.
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  DateTime::Moonpig, a saner interface to DateTime 
  http://bit.ly/1cZTBHJ
 
  Some epic projects also bring fortuitous collateral goodies. The space race
  gave us disposable diapers, Moonpig, and a more rational interface to the
  powerful DateTime module. Mark J Dominus makes the case for it.
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  Pinto Can Use Stratopan's Mirror While CPAN Master Is Down
  http://bit.ly/1cZTBHL
 
  If there's a thing the Perl ecosystem is good for, it's to reroute around
  the damage. Here, Jeffrey Thalhammer shows us how to tweak Pinto to use
  cpan.stratopan.com instead of cpan.perl.org if the latter ever goes down
  again.
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  Deduping 100 Gigs Worth of Files? Gimme 5 Minutes...
  http://bit.ly/1cZTBHM
 
  The entry was modern, and this is its post-mortem. Yanick presents  the
  program he submitted to the Dallas/Fort Worth Perl Mongers  Winter
  Hackaton Challenge.
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  Introducing Git::Repository::Plugin::AUTOLOAD
  http://bit.ly/1cZTADG
 
  Git::Repository is one of the many Perl interfaces to Git. At the core, it
  is meant to be simple and minimalist. Recently, it began to offer
  additional features via the use of plugins. This latest addition to the
  herd	should be most pleasing to any DWIM partisan.
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  Secrets of cpanm cpanfile Support
  http://bit.ly/1cZTADH
 
  cpanfile is a straight-forward way to declare your project's dependencies.
  Did you know cpanminus supports it? If not, chromatic has some good news
  for you.
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Videos

  
  DFW Perl Mongers ONLINE Hackathon Smackdown - Results, Awards, And Code
  http://bit.ly/1cZTBHN
 
  The contest is over, the entries has been run and their performances
  recorded. The results are now in.
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  Houston Perl Mongers - Library Data Migration with Perl 
  http://bit.ly/1cZTADI
 
  The Houston Perl Mongers meeting of this month.
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  Introduction to MongoDB
  http://bit.ly/1cZTBHR
 
  Brendan W. McAdams gives us an introduction to MongoDB, and how to use it
  via  its Perl drivers.
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Perl Maven Tutorials

  
  Python Lambda in Perl creating anonymous functions
  http://bit.ly/1cZTBHS
 
  Lambda is the word used in Python for creating anonymous functions. In Perl
  there is no need for a separate word for that.
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Weekly collections

  
  MetaCPAN Weekly Report - Devel::hdb & Mojolicious
  http://bit.ly/1cZTADK
 
  
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  StackOverflow Perl report
  http://bit.ly/1cZTBHV
 
  
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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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