From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Mar 3 02:27:41 2014 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 02:27:41 -0800 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #136 - YAPC::NA - Early Bird Registration Payments extended! Message-ID: <20140303102741.7A78576E2B5@s6.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/136.html Hi, there are 14 Perl related events listed for the coming months. Two in the US; the rest in Europe. Have you heard about them? Have they made any announcements? Are you going to attend? Can you help them reach more people? Announcements Mojoconf 2014 - Call for Papers / Call for Speakers http://bit.ly/1fBn6H9 Another call for speakers for the Mojolicious conference that will take place between May 23-25, 2014 in Oslo, Norway. The deadline is in less than 2 weeks. -------------- Early Bird Registration Payments extended! http://bit.ly/1fBn4PE Of YAPC::NA till March 7th 2014. Hurry up! -------------- GitPrep 1.5 is released - Improve HTTP repository access, and display README in subdirectory http://bit.ly/1fBn4PJ GitPrep, written by Yuki Kimoto, is an open-source GitHub clone written in Perl. It needs both your testing - just use it! - and your contribution. (code, docs, UI, etc.) -------------- ============= Articles Perl levels up with native subroutine signatures http://bit.ly/1fBn6Hd v5.19.9 the latest development release of Perl edging toward 5.20 already has an experimental feature called 'signatures'. It will let you declare sub f($name, $email) {} eliminating the need to deal with @_. It is still far away from what Method::Signatures provides, but at least it will be part of the language. -------------- In Praise of Perl 5 http://bit.ly/1fBn6Hg Chris Travers show 3 examples from code where HTML is embedded in Perl to using Moose, and explains how malleable Perl is. To quote him: "Perl isn't just a programming language, but a toolkit for building programming languages inside it." -------------- ============= Testing Announcing Test::mongod http://bit.ly/1fBn6Hh As explained by the author, Jesse Shy, this will launch a throw away instance of MongoDB in the /tmp directory to make it seamless to write tests. -------------- Easier Database Fixtures http://bit.ly/1fBn6Hi Ovid improved DBIx::Class::EasyFixture eliminating half the lines you had to write for setting up some data in a database for testing. -------------- My Favourite Test::* Modules http://bit.ly/1fBn6Xz Toby Inkster recommends the following: Test::More 0.96, Test::Fatal, Test::Warnings, Test::Requires, Test::Deep, Test::LongString, and a few more. -------------- ============= Code Towards Type::Tiny 1.000000 http://bit.ly/1fBn560 The original intention of Type::Tiny written by Toby Inkster was to provide a framework for attribution to Moose-style class builders, but can also be used for sub parameter validation, switch-like statements, tied arrays, and probably more. Now that it is getting closer to its major release, Toby is looking for more use-cases that might bring in more test-cases to the unit tests of Type::Tiny. That will help in ensuring stability of the API after the 1.0 release. -------------- Significant newlines? Or semicolons? http://bit.ly/1fBn6XA Jeffrey Kegler explains that the DSL of Marpa, which is written in itself, can be understood without requiring significant white-spaces, and without an end-of-statement mark. -------------- Finding my computer http://bit.ly/1fBn563 Salvador Fandino is finding his computer by ssh-ing to all the 512 IP addresses in the network of his employer. Will he be terminated for attempted break-in? Or will he be able to find his own computer? -------------- ============= CPAN The CPAN new dist a month contest http://bit.ly/1fBn6XE Several ways to encourage yourself to upload new releases to CPAN. By Neil Bowers. -------------- Changes and CPAN, CPAN::Changes and my Changes http://bit.ly/1fBn6XJ By Jonas B. Nielsen. -------------- What's new on CPAN - February 2014 http://bit.ly/1fBn564 Just as last month, now again David Farrell provides a list of interesting changes on CPAN. -------------- ============= Grants New Rules of Operation - Grants Committee http://bit.ly/1fBn567 Makoto Nozaki, the new head of The Perl Foundation Grants Committee has announced the new rules. 1) Calls for grants will be every 2 months. 2) Grant limit is up to 10,000 USD. 3) Some other, minor issues. -------------- Call for Grant Proposals http://bit.ly/1fBn56a The application deadline is March 14th. Acceptance by March 31st. -------------- ============= Videos Building Scalable, Distributed Job Queues with Redis and Redis::Client http://bit.ly/1fBn56b Mike Friedman at YAPC::NA 2012 - 32 min talk. -------------- ============= Perl 6 Changes since release 2014.02 http://bit.ly/1fBn6XO -------------- ============= Weekly collections MetaCPAN weekly report - DBIx::Class::EasyFixture http://bit.ly/1fBn56e -------------- StackOverflow Perl report http://bit.ly/1fBn81E -------------- ============= Perl Maven Tutorials As a side note, the Perl Maven site passed daily 6,000 visits for the first time on May 25. How to get Help for Perl? http://bit.ly/1fBn81H Just a list of channels where people can ask for Perl. My hope is that there will be localized versions of this page, pointing out resources, in the respective languages. So if you are a native speaker of some language other than English, please help. -------------- Bug in the for-loop of Perl? - B::Deparse to the rescue http://bit.ly/1fBn7e7 Have you ever had disagreement with Perl? How have you settled it? This article show a use-case of B::Deparse that can tell you what Perl thought about the code you wrote. -------------- ============= Events Perl-related events http://bit.ly/1bkDys0 In the following cities: Lyon (FR), Hannover (DE), Cluj (RO), Swindon (UK), Utrecht (NL), Silver Spring, (MD/USA), Poznan (PL), Prague (CZ), Oslo (NO), Paris (FR), Kiev (UA), Orlando (FL/US), Sofia (BG), Fl?rli Olten (CH) -------------- ============= You joined the Perl Weekly to get weekly e-mails about the Perl programming language and related topics. Want to see more? See the archives ( http://perlweekly.com/archive/ ) of all the issues. Reading this as a non-subscriber? 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